U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights
Jul. 29, 2022
The abortion debate and its impact on the disabled community
Disability selective abortions, or the termination of pregnancy due to a prenatal disability diagnosis, create significant tension between the two human rights campaigns.
Hope Michelle Shinderman
is a student at Columbia University in New York and served as a project manager this summer at Loyola's Project for the Innocent, Loyola Law School.
As a disabled college student, I am constantly disappointed by the public's treatment of the disabled community in the recent debates regarding abortion rights. Despite renewed protests calling for bodily autonomy in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, disabled individuals like myself continue to feel excluded from the conversation surrounding reproductive justice. This seems incredibly illogical given that reproductive and dis...
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