OpEd: 'For disabled people like me, Roe was never enough, as the government has long legislated our reproductive health away'
by the National Women’s Law Center found that 31 states explicitly allow the forced sterilization of disabled people. Laws like these destroy the idea that disabled people should be able to make these choices for ourselves and instead allow others to manipulate our bodies.
Though I’m young, I have always seen parenting in my future, but this possibility may be denied to me because of my disability. In the U.S., a parent’s disability is sometimes considered in determining custody cases. When he was a judge on the DC Court of Appeals, now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaughthat DC’s statute allowing the principality to forcibly perform an abortion on an intellectually disabled individual was constitutional, thus denying a disabled woman a chance at being a mother.
As we rally around abortion rights, it’s crucial that we center disabled people to achieve real justice. To truly accept and include disabled people like me, there needs to be a recognition that abortion isn’t the only thing we need to have true control over our reproductive lives. Instead of letting me make my own reproductive health choices, lawmakers have become far too comfortable with policing bodies like mine.
As a disabled teen, I deserve to be able to make choices about my body and my future. I’m asking pro-choice advocates to see the value of including disability in our fight for change. If disabled people don’t get a seat at the table, then future generations won’t truly have the right to choose. It’s time to get the government out of disabled people’s uteruses once and for all.
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