Anti-Abortion Bills and the Hidden Attack on Disability Rights

Activists have made it clear: Reproductive justice is a disability issue

Brandy L Schillace
GEN
Published in
3 min readSep 15, 2021

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Photo: USAID/Georgia’s Disability Advocacy Project, Creative Commons

The rights of disabled people are, suddenly, in the news. They deserve to be, but in the aftermath of the Texas anti-abortion legislation, disabled bodies have largely become talking points — a rhetorical device.

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Brandy L Schillace
GEN
Writer for

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her