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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 deni… - disability
" "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.
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A disability is the consequence of an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, mental, sensory, emotional, developmental, or some combination of these. A disability may be present from birth, or occur during a person's lifetime.
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