lbo-talk-digest V1 #4640

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Wed Jul 25 14:02:57 PDT 2001


Kelley wrote:
> abridging abortion rights because people don't think like you do about
> raising disabled children is just not the answer to the problem.

This is jumping to conclusions here. Women's right to abortion is not imperiled by anything that I said.

Norma McCorvey(???) the woman who was the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade is now a pro-lifer. She jumped ship several years ago - but she said on Nightline that she believes it is still OK to abort disabled fetuses. So you have women on both sides who target disabled fetuses.

Rich women also abort disabled fetus so it isn't just a lack of money that causes women to target disability as an undesirable characteristic - it is much more complex than that. I would recommend reading Jenny Morris "Encounters with Strangers: Feminism and Disability" (1996 Women's Press) even though she does not present nearly as much of a materialist analysis as needed, she does offer a feminist perspective. Marta



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