The Functionally-Challenged Also Deserve Civil Rights Protection

Too often, those of us with functional challenges fall in the cracks between pigeon holes.

For example, I've often had to go without medical treatment, due to my disability income being slightly too high to qualify for Medicaid. Also, I've been (and presently still am) being harassed, and taken advantage of, due to neerdowell-underlings in local government, deliberately capitalizing on their knowledge of my limitations. It is SHAMEFUL what some will do, when they are confident they can get away with abuse!

Access to legal and Public Defender support, should be available to the disabled, similar for example, to what is available to the indigent. Access to advocation and intervention, etc are woefully lacking for disabled people, especially for those of us without support systems.

Abuse and denial of basic Civil Rights is more often than not, the unrecognized result.