Well, the witchfinders have come for Rebecca Long-Bailey. Website Red Roar has unearthed Long-Bailey’s responses to the question of abortion on the grounds of disability. She wrote:
‘It is currently legal to terminate a pregnancy up to full-term on the grounds of disability, while the upper limit is 24 weeks if there is no disability.I personally do not agree with this position and agree with the words of the Disability Rights Commission that ‘the context in which parents choose whether to have a child should be one in which disability and non-disability are valued equally.’
This is, you might have thought, a pretty uncontentious observation, based as it is on the rather fundamental premise that people with disabilities are of equal value to anyone else. And there is no more fundamental discrimination than the right to kill a disabled foetus up to birth, which you can’t do to a normal foetus.
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