Constitutional protection for bodily autonomy is of vital importance to people with disabilities, because that protection has far too often been deni… - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

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Constitutional protection for bodily autonomy is of vital importance to people with disabilities, because that protection has far too often been denied to them in both reproductive and non-reproductive contexts. Perhaps most notoriously, around 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized in state-sanctioned programs to prevent those adjudged to have psychiatric disabilities from reproducing.