Posted on 10/20/2014 9:52:46 AM PDT by Morgana
Walt Disney Studios has for nearly a century featured disabled characters in its animated cartoons, from a none-too-bright Dopey to Nemo and his damaged fin.
Now a Bay Area couple has asked for one more from the media giant: a princess who has Down syndrome in common with their daughter. In the past two weeks, their Care2.com petition to persuade the Burbank studio has garnered more than 30,000 signatures from around the world.
“We love Walt Disney,” said Keston Ott-Dahl, 48, of Antioch, whose 15-month-old Delaney Skye has high-functioning Down syndrome. “When I see her mesmerized by Disney princesses, it breaks my heart to know she has no role models like herself.”
A spokeswoman for the Walt Disney Co. did not respond to a request for comment.
Ott-Dahl and her wife, Andrea, are the mothers of three children from 15 months to 9 years. Keston is an author and Down syndrome activist from Anaheim who also has two adult children.
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“What percent of the population is comprised of girls with DS?”
I can’t tell you that. Can only tell you at what rate they are aborted at.
“Just how many people would this concept appeal to? Aren’t most of the unborn with Downs murdered?”
Well I’d hope to the ones who are thinking of aborting a child with Trisomy 21. Maybe they would consider changing their minds? Maybe they would see the child as a child and not a disease?
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