designed to forcefully change an autistic person into a non-autistic one.
In my view this fear you describe is merely going to make us out to be paranoid. The prenatal test, while its likely that they will develop it, is unlikely to kill us off, or come close to it. Firstly you would need to test every single baby, a very expensive, and possibly dangerous proceedure. Then you would be need to find the doctors to do the abortions, which is unlikely (I suspect the church would put paid to a few abortion clinics, if needs be). The other methods you describe, yes they have been attempted, in the Judge Rotenberg Center and elsewhere. None of them work, or are ever going to work. They are not a threat, simply because of cost and public outrage.
Bad bad move. Thats more likely to be a case of wearing target signs on our person. Asides, the people who have such protection are getting riled for it, and rightly so (look at Muslims and the religious discrimination act). Plus the disability benefits and support we would lose from making such a move would really send people over the edge.
This is the real point. Employers are discrimatory in the interview processes (in fact this actually happens in the educational system to begin with, like Oxbridge). Also jobs are more accessed via networks, which is the key issue here. You do discount that some on the spectrum are able to work, choose not to.
I am not writing this as a dig (its good to see someone to try for once), but more to suggest making a new petition (with a wiser expiry date as well) that is more likely to work, rather than something broad and sweeping that the government will dismiss out of hand. Possibly a petition that suggests some real solutions to the problem, that can be legislated towards. Any ideas?