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For Dr. Donna Beegle and her 15-year-old autistic daughter Juliette to be kicked off a United Airlines flight to Portland because Juliette's autism seemingly made the pilot 'feel uncomfortable’, is simply preposterous.
And as if to add insult to injury, United Airlines added a fictitious reason of the safety and comfort of other passengers to it. Bearing in mind that though the United States, is yet to ratify the United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, it at least signed it on 30th July 2009.
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