Diabetes and the Americans with Disabilities Act
The ADA is a wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal. Those with diabetes do have serious health problems and under some conditions can become inable to work safely at many jobs involving hevy machinery, aircraft, or dangerious weapons. In such cases it is not descrimination but safety for all that is a limiting factor for the diabetic patient.
