REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND DISABILITY RIGHTS OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES-WWDs

The question of reproductive rights is one great area that has been seen to raise a lot of questions that seem to be so problematic. This is mostly among the disabled women as well as the feminists with disabilities. This has brought a lot of tensions. The reproductive rights movements have received a lot of bad feelings from the feminists with disabilities for the ignorance they have shown towards the question of forced sterilization of the disabled women. This is due to their failure to address the lack of giving the equal reproductive rights to disabled women as the rest of the women population.

The group that is seen to be very active and very vocal about the torn between rights of disability and reproductive are the feminists with disabilities, they are pushing for the right to make choices and also advocating against the push for selective abortion for defective fetuses, this is due to a shared commitment between the disability rights movements and the reproductive rights movements, the commitment is about the aspect of women being in control over their lives and also their bodies. This therefore is showing clearly that the fights of these two movements are supposed to be similar.

The fight for the equality between women and men should not be achieved by the subversion of the potentials and equality of people with disabilities. Reproductive rights should not be abusive as seen in the type of counseling that is given to pregnant women, the way disability is presented during these sessions is very oppressive and causes very negative attitudes towards disability. This in other words can be interpreted as meaning that the world would be a better place without the people who have disabilities.