I was reading about a 29 year old woman in Virginia with Down Syndrome, who was being forced against her will to live in a group home. This woman did not want to live in this group home, but with some of her friends. There was a court case over guardianship over her. Her mother and step-father wanted to have her kept in a group home against her will, who and who she could associate with, and what medical treatment they wanted for her. This woman has held down a job at a thrift store the past 5 years, worked on political campaigns, and has shown she has the capability to live on her own. But because of her having Down syndrome and an IQ of 52, her mom tried to claim she was incapable of any of those things and should be forced to live in a group home. Happily, the court ruled against her douche bag mom and granted her some basic freedoms.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/in_victory_for_woman_with_down_syndrome_judge_considers_her_wishes_and_reje/

So, imagine if you had to fight in court to make decisions about your own life, go to work, and live with whomever you wanted to. The ruling is a good step towards more disability rights, and basic humans rights. Like freedom of movement, individual autonomy, and free association.

These basic rights though have been repeatedly denied to people with disabilities. Many, like this woman, are held against their will in group homes. In quite a number of these group homes, the staff sexually abuse the people being forced to live their. Nothing ever happens to the staff, but they're allowed to repeatedly get away with it, or are just transfered to another group home to abuse more people. Disabled women are twice as likely to be sexually abused than that of the general population of women. http://www.usu.edu/saavi/info/stats.cfm The state have enabled an assault on women with disabilities. 

So, yeah, should people with disabilities have way more rights than they do now?