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“I couldn't help concluding that disabled people with adequate resources and support are, as a group, particularly equipped to weather the adjustment to parenthood. Physical weakness and change do not scare us as they do others. We have spent years decoupling joy from physical or mental function.”

CareIdentitySocial JusticeMotherhoodParenthoodDisabilityAbleismReproductive JusticeBody PoliticsDisabled Parents
Book:Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World
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“You’re not really mad that I’m not having children. In fact, I would probably love to one day. You’re mad that I’m expressing autonomy of choice. You’re mad that I’m considering other options. You’re mad that I don’t view that as my ultimate potential. You’re mad that I dare be selfish enough to make choices based on my best interest, something women are not supposed to do. You’re mad that I consider it a choice, and that I, a woman, am exercising choice. You’re not mad that I’m not having babies. You’re mad because I’m acting like a man.”

FeminismWomens RightsReproductive RightsChildfreePro ChoiceHeteronormativityPro Choice QuotesReproductive Justice
Author:Alice Minium
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“The idea that a pregnant person gets the final decision should not lead the men in their lives to just think of themselves as supporters or allies. Men really are stakeholders and beneficiaries when it comes to their partner's reproductive decisions, and they should be out there marching because abortion access is "their issue" too”

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Book:You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
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“Every indignity that comes from the denial of reproductive autonomy can be found in slave women’s lives – the harms of treating women’s wombs as procreative vessels, of policies that pit a mother’s welfare against that of her unborn child, and of government attempts to manipulate women’s child-bearing decisions through threats and bribes.”

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Book:Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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“When reframed in this way, critics often accuse couples intent on pursuing ART of being selfish for expending so much time, energy, and resources to have a biological connection to their child when they could pursue adoption in-stead. But beyond the practical barrier of adoption not being accessible to all prospective parents in all contexts given variables of age, sexual orientation, marital status, and the pool of available children, what is missing in this anti-ART/pro-adoption position is an explanation for why the criticism of narcissism or selfishness is directed primarily at couples who use ART, not also at those intent on bearing children the old-fashioned way through intercourse. Why must those who cannot reproduce "naturally" be put in the position of having to justify their desire to have "their own" child — why isn't every prospective parent pressed to give an account?”

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Book:My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy
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“To express Choice, Agency, or Control over my own reproductive choices is Not My Place, it is Selfish, it makes me Inferior, it makes me Incomplete, it makes me Un-Woman. By this logic, to exercise choice over my own reproduction is un-woman. To choose self over reproduction is un-woman. To exercise the agency of Self is to violate social norms of womanhood. Women do not exist to do things for themselves. Women have a social duty to be incubators, regardless of person.”

FeminismWomens RightsReproductive RightsChildfreePro ChoiceHeteronormativityPro Choice QuotesReproductive Justice
Author:Alice Minium
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