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15 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
tw: abortion, eugenics

All discussions about reproductive rights and reproductive justice must include the voices of disabled people who are concerned about eugenics and how abortion plays into that.

These conversations aren't at war with being pro-choice, they're part of it.
There are very few disabled people who think the answer is to ban people from having abortions.

But we do need to have a discussion about pre-natal testing, how doctors frame disability to pregnant people, and the impact of societal ableism on decisions.
Only 2/3 babies with Downs are born each year in Iceland because of virulent testing and a culture that essentially encourages abortion if the test comes back positive. Many of the babies who ARE born are only born because their test was a false negative. cbsnews.com/news/down-synd…
This is eugenics. But a lot of the abled pro-choice movement is uncomfortable with even talking about it or recognising that in these terms, and that's a problem.
tw: abortion, eugenics, medical racism

Additionally, abortions (as well as sterilisation) can be used as a tool of genocide, which Black, Indigenous and other communities of colour have faced. White pro-choice activism has to acknowledge that as well.
If your reproductive justice activism is only about the right to access abortion, then your activism is hollow. Because reproductive justice is way bigger and all-encompassing than that.

Your conversation is incomplete, and it's vital that you open it up in order to succeed.

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