Judge blocked Ohio law outlawing abortion if sought due to prenatal test indicating Down syndrome.… because the laws were never meant to be enforced. This is what’s never said by the Down syndrome community. https://t.co/DrbothZwHy
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) March 16, 2018
I am continuing to follow these laws. PA is next.
No one explains how they will actually solve the problem they are allegedly intended to solve. The rhetoric is: “Down syndrome is good, abortions after pretnatal testing are bad, so we’ll make them illegal!” And too much of even the left-wing DS community applauds wildly, ignoring the way that Down syndrome is being used to undermine reproductive justice without, again, helping anyone with Down syndrome.
I often think that getting overturned by courts is exactly the desired result. The goal is to divide people. The goal is to get people who are nominally pro-choice to agree conceptually to exceptions.
Meanwhile, we’re not actually having the tough conversations around the future of human procreation in the age of CRISPR.