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- The essay discusses the growing recognition of ableist attitudes in health care and the challenges in balancing reproductive autonomy with the rights of disabled individuals after the Dobbs decision.
- It focuses on the Louisiana Department of Health's emergency declaration that lists conditions categorizing unborn children as 'medically futile,' which raises significant ethical and medical concerns.
- The authors advocate for rescinding the declaration and emphasize the importance of integrating reproductive and disability justice in health care policies going forward.
Article Abstract
Ableist attitudes and structures are increasingly recognized across all sectors of health care delivery. After Dobbs, novel questions arose in the United States concerning how to protect reproductive autonomy while avoiding discrimination against and devaluation of disabled persons. In this essay, we examine the Louisiana Department of Health's emergency declaration, "List of Conditions That Shall Deem an Unborn Child 'Medically Futile,'" issued August 1, 2022. We raise a number of medical, ethical, and public health concerns that lead us to argue that the declaration should be rescinded. Analysis of this ethically objectionable declaration provides valuable lessons about how to uphold both reproductive and disability justice in a post-Dobbs landscape.
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