The attitudes of today’s culture are often in stark opposition to the purposes and goals of medical care, which are curing disease, eliminating suffering, preventing illness, and restoring function. A “culture of death” is more accurate when thinking about the twenty-first century world we live in today. For instance, today a severely disabled person is often looked at as being better off dead than alive. It may appear in today’s society that better health is emphasized even more than life. Disability is commonly viewed as an oppressive burden. It is no wonder that a movement exists in society to eliminate it. Even though America as a whole has numerous life-saving procedures and facilities, 90 percent of unborn babies with Down’s syndrome are aborted in the name of compassion or mercy. Having a lower intelligence or a severe disability should not impact whether an individual is considered a human. In this paper, I will look at disability within a historical, cultural, and Biblical context.