Commentary: Opponents need to stop equating abortion with eugenics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Contraception and abortion should be part of basic, undeniable healthcare.
44% : At a time when the antiabortion movement is looking for anything to help further its cause to end access to abortion everywhere, we should object when antiabortion activists, judges and lawmakers conflate the procedure with the eugenics movement, which was about coercion and intimidation.
40% : Before the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year, laws limiting abortion on the basis of sex, race or a diagnosis of a disability were one way lawmakers could chip away at access.
40% : Any ban on abortion for a certain reason (aside from viability) is always someone else's reason -- a state's, an organization's, a nation's.
40% : Rather than spending their time trying to outlaw abortion, lawmakers ought to focus on addressing the conditions that make some women seek to terminate their pregnancy: lack of affordable child care, a dearth of resources to support families taking care of severely disabled children, and jobs that pay too little to support a household, for example.
39% :Kacsmaryk "is bringing it up to delegitimize access to abortion for anyone," said UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler, a historian of the U.S. abortion debate.
38% : Among the dubious points that U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk makes in his recent ruling suspending the Food and Drug Administration's authorization of mifepristone is that abortion is part of the now-reviled practice of eugenics.
38% : Kacsmaryk is obviously not the first judge or abortion opponent to raise the specter of eugenics as a reason to restrict or ban abortion.
36% : Now they are moot, and states can just pass a total ban on abortion.
35% : In his decision, now blocked by the Supreme Court, Kacsmaryk quoted a 2019 opinion by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas noting that "abortion has proved to be a disturbingly effective tool for implementing the discriminatory preferences that undergird eugenics."
30% :Linking such an evil philosophy with abortion distorts everything about the personal right to control your own body and decide whether to terminate a pregnancy.

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