The biggest problem with this is the hypocrisy -- the entire premise of feminist activism is to bring down the oppressive structures that reinforce certain people (those who are white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, upper-class, able-bodied) having automatic entitlement over others.
But the integration of disabled athletes into sports for the able-bodied has not been without controversy.
Even so, in the town of Azdavay, near the countryside hostel where I stayed, many of the able-bodied have jobs in Istanbul, an eight-hour drive away, and merely come home on holidays.
Mr. Schrader said he and his wife, Marilyn, 50, who is able-bodied, had encountered few problems on a cruise to London and Russia on Norwegian Cruise Line in August 2001, and to the Caribbean and to Mexico on Royal Caribbean Cruises last February and August.
And, in a mini-conflict that yet again demonstrates the growing influence of the Taliban and the Pakistan government's lack of control over this highly sensitive border area, young and old, wounded and able-bodied, have become refugees in their own land.
Her 'grand slam' of major marathons in 2013 - London, Boston, Chicago and New York - is something no athlete, disabled or able-bodied, had previously achieved.
I explained how arresting a friend and I, both able-bodied, had found it.
In fact, many of the "non-expansion parents," who do not face chronic medical conditions and thus may be considered "able-bodied," have simply fallen on hard times, due to the Great Recession, structural weaknesses in the American economy, or other problems, and are struggling to get back on their feet ― or find their feet for the first time, Medicaid proponents say.
So, as able bodied persons have different organism constraints that would likely not accurately represent the movement, force and muscle activity patterns used by experienced wheelchair users [ 32], they should not be used if possible in studies of wheelchair propulsion.
They contend the right to life safeguarded by the convention includes the right to die, and that she is suffering discrimination because her physical condition denies her the right an able bodied person would have to end her own life.
"Able bodied kids will have empathy with disabled children, increased understanding, and it gives disabled children the chance to play a game they might not have played before".
