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Originally Posted by JR in Orlando
... That is frequently the way it is with issues such as what is a disability...
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Actually, there is no debate on that. The ADA and the Air Carrier Access Act defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment (permanent or temporary) that limits one or more major life functions.
While the dictionary just deines it as a disabled condition, incapacity, handicap, legal incapacity or disqualification.
None of these make a difference between how the impairment occured.
Oh, and by the way; pregnancy, in and of itself, does not guarantee a woman the services required under any US disability laws. She is covered only if her pregnancy condition limits one or more life functions.
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Now onto your subject of folks using their disability, or appearance of a disability, to game the system. The will always be unmoral and unscruptuous people who will try to milk the system.
* Folks will claim their pets are service animals to avoid paying pet charges
* Perons will falsify their records for SSI payments and that all important parking space.
But it also works in reverse as well. There are disabled passengers who will try to use their disability to get services that they are not entitled to. A better seat assignenment, for example.
I even had one case where a quadriplgic who was using the attendant rule to have his buddy fly on vacation for free.
It is not the goverment's job to regulate morality. The rules are in place to help those who need help.
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