Idea of annihilation of disabled people

The grounds of their opposition were as follows.

First, it contains “the idea of annihilation of disabled people.” Adding a clause for selective abortion of disabled fetuses to the law is equivalent to legally declaring that disabled people do not need to be born in this society. This easily leads us to think that a disabled person is “an existence which should not exist.” As a result, they would suffer more discrimination and harm. Their lives would be more endangered in this society.

Second, disabled people are psychologically disempowered. In the above situation, more and more ordinary people begin to glance at disabled people; thinking, “I wish they were not born,” and these repeated glances slowly deprive them of power to live by themselves and of a sense of self-affirmation. As a result, they are forced to live passive and negative lives separated from the community. Moreover, members of Blue Grass Group thought that this disempowerment process would gradually broaden to include various minorities, and in the end, all of us would fall victim to it. They consider this to be the most dangerous problem lurking behind selective abortion.

Third, “people without productivity” are abandoned. Those who do not have the ability to product goods would be more and more abandoned in the above society. Not only people with congenital disabilities, but also 1) those who became disabled by accident or disease, 2) senior citizens, and 3) physically weak people would become candidates for discrimination

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Disability Movement and Inner Eugenic Thought
(2002)
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