User:ClickerClock/Abortion and ableism

Maybe I should rename this? Like I'm pro choice and I have some criticisms of the pro choice movement. Like maybe a page called "Actual Valid Criticism of the Pro Choice Movement"? ClickerClock (talk) 03:59, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

The 1920s
The history of abortion did not start from eugenics. But early American proponents of abortion, 1920s, did so supporting eugenics. The feebleminded are notoriously prolific in reproduction.

These people are gross. Pro choice activists of today ignore the past and defend these late proponents to some extent. A bit too positive article from the Freedom from Religion Foundation praising Joseph l. Lewis. Lewis was vice president of an group called the Eugenics Society. I think https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973307/pdf/eugenrev00058-0001b.pdf

http://www.textbookhistory.com/purity-pornography-and-eugenics-in-the-1930s-part-ii/

Today
Abortion activism nowadays focus on suffering that are caused by a lack of abortion.

Some disabled people have conditions that pregnancy will probably result in miscarriage or death of the pregnant person. Some fetuses have disabilities that will cause a miscarriage. Preventing a miscarriage will prevent the suffering of the child and family. Providing abortion rights respects the bodily autonomy of these disabled people.

Since traces of ableism remain in modern day American pro choice activism.

https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/pro-choice-parents-of-kids-with-downs-syndrome/

http://feministsonar.com/2013/07/pro-choice-should-not-mean-ableist/

http://www.protectchoice.org/article.php?id=140