The History of Disability

[Marta Russell]

I don't think women in France are in any danger of having their
reproductive rights thwarted.  This ruling clearly shows that the
medical model is applied to disability without any regard for the
social model as put forth by disabled activists.  The article said

"The judgment confirmed a decision last November that was widely
described as establishing in law a disabled child's "right not to be born."
The appeals court ruled on a plea by the families of three children born
with physical deformities who claimed that if doctors had not failed to

 spot the disabilities in the womb the pregnancies would have been
terminated. The children are aged 9 to 11. One has a malformation of the
spine; the others two were born with only one arm."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/international/14FRAN.html

I have a curvature of the spine!  And my good friend Marion was born
without an arm!  So the devaluation of the disabled body is clearly
present here.  It is so culturally ingrained that we disabled persons
are better off dead that you do not see it.  These are quality of life
judgements assumed by a nondisabled parent.
The slippery slope is already slipped IMO.  Abortion is being used to
get rid of disabled persons -- of any degree of impairment.  This
ruling just makes that very clear.  

Marta