A University of Delaware professor said that questions about a Senate candidate’s cognitive abilities after a stroke is a form of eugenics and “ableism.”
“Democrat John Fetterman’s performance in Pennsylvania’s lone Senate debate provoked intense discussions about his fitness for office while recovering from a stroke,” Professor Jaipreet Virdi wrote in The Washington Post.
“Fetterman’s verbal stumbles and pauses intensified Republican accusations that his health is too frail to withstand the job of a senator, even as doctors and disability advocates pushed back on these charges.”
