For example, women who have difficulty walking are much less likely to be asked about contraception or receive cervical cancer screening, in part because doctor

For example, women who have difficulty walking are much less likely to be asked about contraception or receive cervical cancer screening, in part because doctors assume they’re not sexually active. Wow, these are doctors who went to medical school and are crystal clear on how to have sex, right? The hard cold facts are that a very large percentage of all individuals with disabilities are the victims of sexual assault and many schools request girls be on birth control "just in case." People with disabilities are curious and have hormones driving them crazy just as no disabled individuals do. I have worked for many years in this arena and I have a daughter with disabilities. It was a fight to get my daughter the HPV shots but I won and she received them. I also know that women I have worked with received substandard GYN care and many received zero GYN care. When a severally disabled bed ridden young woman with severe cognitive impairments in a state run institution ended up pregnant everybody ignored it until they could not longer do so. Then they simply asked how rather than who, when, etc. Everything became about preventing the outcome in the future when my concern was preventing the sex given her total inability to consent. Of course the investigation produced no conclusive evidence...???? But the pregnancy was pretty darn conclusive so clearly something happened. Sadly there are far too few Drs to treat individuals with disabilities and far to caregivers/conservators to fight for appropriate care for those society still sees as third or fourth class citizens.