I wish I could properly articulate how personally hurtful it is when you’re disabled and you see people advocating for abortion for potentially disabled fetuses, or bragging about how down syndrome is being ‘eradicated’ through abortion. Eugenics is not only becoming socially acceptable, but celebrated, when us who made it out still have to fight for basic accessibility even though it’s written into law. When disabled people are still largely unemployed or taken advantage of by employers. When we have to fight tooth and nail just to do ‘normal’ things like get onto an airplane. When we’re faced with trying to afford medical expenses, travel, or medication. When we can’t even get into buildings because of a single damn step in the doorway.
I wish y’all who want to ‘shout your abortions’ could feel that hurt, that we’re constantly shown it would better if we were dead and people think that’s a good thing worth bragging about or celebrating.
Stop talking about how great it is that disbaled people aren’t being born because we’re choosing to just remove them from the equation if that’s even a possibility. People become disabled through natural means later in their life all the time. People suffer all the time, and disability is not an automatic sentence for lifelong suffering anyway. You will never escape the “problem” of disability, no matter how hard you try. All you end up doing is alienating us and showing us how little you care for our lives.
We have a right to be disabled, and that shouldn’t even be something that has to be said.
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