Everyone who is alive is legit on the topic of ethics, I think.
And disability commentary is all over the map, because like the rest of the universe, we've got lots of opinions. These resources span 30 years, because it's always on the agenda, and all espouse the "abortion should be available AND YET abortion because of disability is problematic" point-of-view
From an academic conference on feminism & reproductive technology: http://www.gjga.org/conference.asp?action=item&source=documents&id=17 Disability Rights and Selective Abortion by Marsha Saxton Excerpted from "Disability Rights and Selective Abortion," in Abortion Wars, A Half Century of Struggle: 1950 to 2000. Rickie Solinger (ed) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
from a mom with a DS baby, publishing in a disability rights magazine called The Ragged Edge (earlier, the Disability Rag), also 1998 http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0798/a798ft4.htm Websites on "pregnancy interruptions" are A Paean to Eugenics by Mary Wilt
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Date: 2018-02-09 06:22 pm (UTC)And disability commentary is all over the map, because like the rest of the universe, we've got lots of opinions. These resources span 30 years, because it's always on the agenda, and all espouse the "abortion should be available AND YET abortion because of disability is problematic" point-of-view
From an academic conference on feminism & reproductive technology:
http://www.gjga.org/conference.asp?action=item&source=documents&id=17
Disability Rights and Selective Abortion by Marsha Saxton
Excerpted from "Disability Rights and Selective Abortion," in Abortion Wars, A Half Century of Struggle: 1950 to 2000. Rickie Solinger (ed) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.
from a mom with a DS baby, publishing in a disability rights magazine called The Ragged Edge (earlier, the Disability Rag), also 1998
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0798/a798ft4.htm
Websites on "pregnancy interruptions" are A Paean to Eugenics by Mary Wilt
Life as We Know It and Life As Jamie Knows It are memoirs with policy interruptions by Michael Bérubé, meditating on what it's like for high-power college profs to have a DS child, and what life is like as he grows into a teenager. I highly recommend them; the latter is blurbed here,
http://www.beacon.org/Life-as-Jamie-Knows-It-P1230.aspx
here's a 2008 convo between Michael and Peter Singer, a philosopher who has supported killing disabled babies.
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/more_on_peter_singer_and_jamie_berube/
from a a disabled person with major attitude,
http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/08/19/reproductive-justice-is-for-everyone-even-people-you-dont-like/
Reproductive Justice is for Everyone, Even People You Don’t Like by s.e.smith
and an update on the current situation from the same writer.
Are Abortion Bans on the Basis of Disability Really in the Interest of Disability Rights?
http://www.rootedinrights.org/are-abortion-bans-basis-disability-in-interest-of-disability-rights/