"Where pro-choice feminism collides with disability rights"

Here is a very good, thoughtful article from today's Guardian. It is by Rebecca Atkinson, who has Usher syndrome  (she is deaf and is losing her sight). Atkinson is pregnant and explains why she has not had her unborn baby tested for Down's. The piece, which is here, touches on the prickly subject of being pro-choice but not "believing" in aborting foetuses with special needs. (I'm phrasing this very weirdly. "Foetuses with special needs" sounds mad. Sorry. Am rushing). Pic of Atkinson nicked from the Guardian website.

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[navi]

I had the test... they have some sort of a triple test here in the states... but if it'd shown positive, I'd not have aborted... I'd just have used the extra time to plan for it... unfortunately, apparently most people don't see it that way.