Occasionally advocates for the “disabled” will find themselves making arguments in which they seem to suggest that there might be something somehow “genocidal” about a woman’s choice to end a pregnancy that might eventuate in a differently enabled child. Rarely, but sometimes, this is literally the—to me, dreadfully misguided—claim the advocate is actually making. But more usually when they are talking this way I think “disability” advocates are trying to get at a much more fraught and painful point that is simply terribly difficult to convey:
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