Misconceptions About Disabled Women and Motherhood Part2

For the second conversation on this topic, Olivia and Raven discussed statistics and details about discrimination against disabled parents, legislation restricting and protecting disabled parents’ rights, and how the American eugenics movement popularized ableist attitudes and misconceptions.

 

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Discussion Summary

0:33: Episode begins. Brief recap of the previous episode. Reminder: check it out!

01:18: Responses to the prep work and research for the episode.

03:46: Statistics, facts, and anecdotes on discrimination against disabled parents.

11:56: Legislation regarding disabled parents’ rights.

17:06: Concern that laws aren’t protecting disabled people’s reproductive rights.

20:54: Some history of the US eugenics movement, and the Buck V. Bell Supreme Court case.

28:28: The US eugenics movement as inspiration for sterilization programs in Nazi Germany, and the harm done by not talking about the ways the US contributed.

37:01: Restricting disabled people’s right to marriage with eugenic criteria.

38:36: The issue with defining womanhood according to the ability to reproduce and mother, and how societal expectations de-gender disabled people.

44:07: The misconception that all disabled people are asexual.

52:21: Outro.

 

References:

Know Your Rights

https://disabledparents.org/know-your-rights-as-a-parent-with-disabilities/

Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children

https://www.ncd.gov/publications/2012/Sep272012

Passing Legislation to Protect the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children

https://heller.brandeis.edu/parents-with-disabilities/pdfs/legislative-toolkit-advocates-english.pdf

Eugenics in the United States

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/eugenics-in-the-united-states/

Eugenics and Disability Discrimination

https://www.independentliving.org/docs1/pfeiffe1.html

Buck v. Bell (1927)

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/buck-v-bell-1927/

Legislation works to keep Ohio families together

https://ohiohouse.gov/news/republican/bill-protects-blind-parents-from-discrimination-95616

Parents with Disabilities Have Rights

https://wapave.org/parents-with-disabilities-have-rights/

 

Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie

Closing: First Class - DJ Williams