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Privilege check: Did you know that the forced sterilization of disabled people is still occurring in the United States?

A new @nwlc report shines light on the dark reality of modern day eugenics.

https://twitter.com/nwlc/status/1486002800383430667

“Forced sterilization laws are not an aberration—they are part of a larger, horrifying system that prevents disabled people from making basic decisions about their lives, their families, and their futures,” says Ma’ayan Anafi, author of the report.

nwlc.org/resources/forc…

The report reveals:

🚨 31 states + DC have laws explicitly allowing the forced sterilization of disabled people (the most recent were passed in 2019 in Iowa and Nevada)
🚨 17 states allow forced sterilizations on disabled children (only 3 states explicitly prohibit this)

Throughout U.S. history, disabled Black, Native, Mexican/Chicanx, Japanese, and Borikén/Puerto Rican people with uteruses have disproportionately been forcibly sterilized. The report also found these laws mostly harm people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

A note: The study was written in Plain Language, a style that is more accessible to many people, with help from the @awnnetwork_

How is this happening? Well, for one thing, the Supreme Court said it could in #BuckVBell. And it has never revisited that decision.

We talk about it in this story about the #FreeBritney movement: rewirenews.link/3qZdzDH

People with disabilities have a right to reproductive autonomy. This includes:

🩺 Freedom from forced sterilization
💡 Sex education and accurate information
💊 Access to birth control and abortion
👪Equal rights as parents