#AbortionIsADisabilityRightsIssue 🧵: I and my spouse are both Little People and both support abortion rights for everyone, but I want to highlight why access is especially important for us dwarfs. First, there is the issue of “double dominance.”
If 2 people with achondroplasia (“Peter Dinklage” dwarfism) conceive, there is a 25% chance the embryo will receive 2 copies of the gene and be “double dominant,” which is incompatible with life. Carrying such a pregnancy to term can be deeply traumatic and should be a CHOICE.
Further, carrying any pregnancy can be risky for a variety of little people. Often, a dwarf body has a narrow birth canal that makes vaginal delivery life threateningly dangerous, along with many other orthopedic issues that raise serious health risks for pregnant little people.
It should be a CHOICE whether one takes on these risks. Overturning #RoeVWade takes this choice away from little people and should be thought of as a matter of disability discrimination as well as gender inequality. #Resist #ReproductiveRights #abortionishealthcare #Disability
Also, while I have everyone’s attention, I guess I’ll self promote a bit. As my day job, I’m a bioethics professor that writes about these issues. Any academic types that are interested in my scholarly work, check out: scholar.google.com/citations?user…
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