Sotomayor's Medical History Sparks Wider Debate
AOG, Madrid
I agree that a post at the US Supreme Court is a very important post. I understand that service is lifelong. But to use health as criteria is, quite frankly, a form of prejudice.
People with Type 1 Diabetes have as much a right to hold high office as those without Type 1 Diabetes.
What if she developed the disease after being sworn in? No longer useful? Less able or capable because of it? I doubt it.
As a country we should be enlightened enough to take a chance on people whose health may not be 100% since, after all, nobody's health is 100% at any one time.
As a species, we start dying from the minute we are born. I think we should be able to look beyond the physical and concentrate on the intellectual.
Sonia Sotomayor should not be disqualified for suffering from a human condition.
About Barack ObamaPeople with Type 1 Diabetes have as much a right to hold high office as those without Type 1 Diabetes.
What if she developed the disease after being sworn in? No longer useful? Less able or capable because of it? I doubt it.
As a country we should be enlightened enough to take a chance on people whose health may not be 100% since, after all, nobody's health is 100% at any one time.
As a species, we start dying from the minute we are born. I think we should be able to look beyond the physical and concentrate on the intellectual.
Sonia Sotomayor should not be disqualified for suffering from a human condition.
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