as small as a world and as large as alone

2:44pm June 6, 2014

patternsmaybe:

andromedalogic:

don’t talk about reproductive rights without talking about forced sterilization. don’t talk about reproductive rights without talking about eugenic abortion. don’t talk about reproductive rights without considering who you are implicitly encouraging to have babies, and who you are discouraging from it.

I’d rather say it this way though:

People who talk about reproductive rights: start talking about eugenic abortion and forced sterilization. Talk about the right to have children as much as the right not to. Stop using people with disabilities to make the case for abortion rights. Deal with the eugenicist roots of the birth control movement, and make sure you’re not perpetuating them.

Because, having people shut up about reproductive rights would not be a solution. I want them to keep talking about reproductive rights. And I want them to do it better. But I don’t want them to shut up until they get it right.

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