DENVER, March 5 (UPI) -- A disabled lawyer in Denver is devoting her life to helping people like herself experience the joys of parenthood.
Though she is legally blind, confined to a wheelchair and uses a ventilator to breath, Carrie Ann Lucas is managing to raise three disabled children with the help of an aide, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Lucas, who works for the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, is one of a handful of attorneys in the country whose specialty is representing disabled parents.
She told the Times she sees her mission as making sure these parents get the same chance as everyone else to be moms and dads.
Among those she has helped is a deaf woman whose two children were taken away because she couldn't hear their cries and a mother confined to a wheelchair.
Lucas acknowledged that there are some disabled people who should not be parents, the Times said.
