LEV470 … each and every person created has the same infinite value, just as each and every person is unique. Thus, each developmentally disabled person indeed has infinite value in Judaism and has the same value as any other person. The obligation to violate the Shabbat and save a life applies equally to developmentally disabled people as well as to anyone else (Biur Halachah on Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 329:4). Similarly, the obligation to save the life of someone in danger [this verse] applies equally to developmentally disabled people as to any other person, as the Talmud makes no distinctions (Sanhedrin 73a). This is why developmentally disabled males over the age of bar mitzvah are counted for a minyan. Similarly, the Shulchan Aruch rules (Ramah on Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'ezer 1:6) that parents of a shoteh have fulfilled their obligation for procreation like any other parents.