ABSTRACT
The earlier chapters have clearly indicated that being located as less-than-perfect person in a society is to contend with indifference and oppression and the able body norm is seldom questioned. There have been positive changes but some of the concerns discussed in India and elsewhere are serious. A number of complex issues, such as mercy killing, prenatal selection, cochlear implants, to name a few, are concerns that have critical significance for lives of disabled people. Notwithstanding the problem of selection on the grounds of sex in India is banned, selection on the basis of disability, however, has a positive sanction. The debate about whether the choice of selection on the grounds of disability should be legal evokes mixed reactions. The existing arguments suggest that antenatal screening is not understood in any uniform way either within feminism or the disability movement. Similarly, cochlear implants does not have a clear basis, which can be debated by disabled movement as well as the academic settings. The increased interest of disabled people in such issues is an indication that they feel affected by these issues. A closer look, however, reveals that the disabled debate these issues mostly amongst themselves and that little dialogue exists between disabled and non-disabled people on these issues.
