Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
Print Edition
The Dysgenic State: Environmental Injustice and Disability-Selective Abortion Bans
Disability-selective abortion bans are laws that prohibit individuals from terminating a pregnancy because the fetus has been diagnosed with a health impairment. Many environmental toxins—to which low-income people and people of color disproportionately are exposed—are known to cause impairments in fetuses. When the fact of environmental injustice is read together with disability…