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2:27pm August 16, 2013

When feminists grasp that selective abortion of girls says something about how girls are valued…

… But flip out at the mere thought that selective abortion of the disabled says something about how disabled people are valued.

And accuse you of being pro life if to bring it up. 

And harass cognitively disabled people for not using the exact words that supposedly prove you are pro life.

Like if you say child or baby or person instead of fetus it supposedly means you’re not REALLY pro choice and therefor shouldn’t be listened to. 

(And yet they can call it selective abortion of GIRLS, and not be challenged ever.  I refuse to waste my brain energy doing their verbal gymnastics so anyone who tries to work out my positions based on the words I use after I’ve explained this is just being a jerk.)

And if you’ve got any problem with the selective abortion of disabled people, then you must want to outlaw it.  Because there’s no way to have a problem with something without wanting it outlawed.

(And that mentality says more scary things about people than I ever wanted to know.)

Also scares me how the prospect of having a disabled child has been openly used to convince people abortion is a good thing. Because apparently the idea that people should have a right to do whatever they want with their own bodies isn’t good enough. You have to throw disabled people under the bus in order to do it.  Ugh.  Not okay.

Then all the “you want to force people to have disabled children!1!!!!” thing. But they never claim that opposing selective abortion of girls is forcing people to have girls.

So… That says even more about how people value disabled people. And no its not for the disabled persons own good. It can’t be for the good of someone who never existed.