Zoe Brennan-Krohn

One of the things that the most recent regulation that came out and that this lawsuit is challenging is about the requirements of hospitals and medical providers. And one of the things it says is that medical providers can't make decisions about medical care or how to allocate resources based on stereotypes about disabled people's quality of life.

And this is something that happens all the time, that medical providers see a disabled patient and they think that person's life can't be worth living. And we saw this, you know, in the early days of COVID, this was very extreme that, you know, when we were There were decisions about who would get ventilators and whether people with intellectual disabilities would be eligible for ventilators.

And this is something that happens all the time, that medical providers see a disabled patient and they think that person's life can't be worth living. And we saw this, you know, in the early days of COVID, this was very extreme that, you know, when we were There were decisions about who would get ventilators and whether people with intellectual disabilities would be eligible for ventilators.

And this is something that happens all the time, that medical providers see a disabled patient and they think that person's life can't be worth living. And we saw this, you know, in the early days of COVID, this was very extreme that, you know, when we were There were decisions about who would get ventilators and whether people with intellectual disabilities would be eligible for ventilators.

You hear about it a lot that people, I've heard this story from a few people that they go into, people who use wheelchairs will go into a hospital for pneumonia or something totally treatable but serious and get pressured to sign a DNR. you don't really want to be alive, do you? And that is disability discrimination.

You hear about it a lot that people, I've heard this story from a few people that they go into, people who use wheelchairs will go into a hospital for pneumonia or something totally treatable but serious and get pressured to sign a DNR. you don't really want to be alive, do you? And that is disability discrimination.

You hear about it a lot that people, I've heard this story from a few people that they go into, people who use wheelchairs will go into a hospital for pneumonia or something totally treatable but serious and get pressured to sign a DNR. you don't really want to be alive, do you? And that is disability discrimination.

And that is just an extraordinarily powerful thing to imagine happening, you know, to a person and like what that message is that their life can't be worth living. And so what this regulation said, that's a kind of disability discrimination. And I think that is really important to think about like how we understand the breadth of of how disability discrimination can work.

And that is just an extraordinarily powerful thing to imagine happening, you know, to a person and like what that message is that their life can't be worth living. And so what this regulation said, that's a kind of disability discrimination. And I think that is really important to think about like how we understand the breadth of of how disability discrimination can work.

And that is just an extraordinarily powerful thing to imagine happening, you know, to a person and like what that message is that their life can't be worth living. And so what this regulation said, that's a kind of disability discrimination. And I think that is really important to think about like how we understand the breadth of of how disability discrimination can work.

It's not just saying, I hate people in wheelchairs. And there just probably aren't that many people who would say something like that. But you might have someone who says, oh, you're in a wheelchair, your life must be terrible. And maybe they think the second part, but don't say it out loud. Sometimes they do say it out loud.

It's not just saying, I hate people in wheelchairs. And there just probably aren't that many people who would say something like that. But you might have someone who says, oh, you're in a wheelchair, your life must be terrible. And maybe they think the second part, but don't say it out loud. Sometimes they do say it out loud.

It's not just saying, I hate people in wheelchairs. And there just probably aren't that many people who would say something like that. But you might have someone who says, oh, you're in a wheelchair, your life must be terrible. And maybe they think the second part, but don't say it out loud. Sometimes they do say it out loud.

And there's just so far to go and can't be moving backwards on access to care, access to life in the community and non-discrimination protections.

And there's just so far to go and can't be moving backwards on access to care, access to life in the community and non-discrimination protections.

And there's just so far to go and can't be moving backwards on access to care, access to life in the community and non-discrimination protections.

the point of intersectionality also is important in that disability exists across society, but not equally across society. Disability is disproportionately present in the most marginalized communities, in poor communities, low-income communities, BIPOC communities,

the point of intersectionality also is important in that disability exists across society, but not equally across society. Disability is disproportionately present in the most marginalized communities, in poor communities, low-income communities, BIPOC communities,

the point of intersectionality also is important in that disability exists across society, but not equally across society. Disability is disproportionately present in the most marginalized communities, in poor communities, low-income communities, BIPOC communities,

there's less access to care, there's more environmental factors that cause certain kinds of disabilities, there's more like less positive supports and therapeutic interventions. So it's not even just that everyone has multiple identities, but some identities cluster and poverty and marginalized racial identity and disability is one of those, are one of those.