In her oral arguments before the Supreme Court, lawyer Sarah Weddington said:
“If the pregnancy would result in the birth of a deformed or defective child, [preborn baby’s mother] has no relief.”
Sarah Weddington, arguing in favor of striking down laws against abortion, on December 13, 1971
Quoted in NEH Hull, Williamjames Hoffer and Peter Charles Hoffer, eds. The Abortion Rights Controversy in America (Chapel Hill: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2004)
This dehumanizing language about disabled people is appalling and the fact that getting rid of “defective” children (and the “relief” caused by eliminating them) was an argument used to legalize abortion shows the ableism inherent in the pro-abortion position.
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