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Today's decision does not just threaten value systems and rights, like freedom of choice and self-determination. It will cause devastating (and in many cases, lethal) harm to far too many disabled people.Read our statement on today's decision:https://t.co/OMRziesTrE— AAPD (@AAPD) June 24, 2022

ASAN condemns today’s ruling dismantling Roe v. Wade and its protections. We are disgusted that the Supreme Court has thrown out decades of settled law to attack bodily autonomy. Read more: https://t.co/zNHamkgPhf— Autistic Self Advocacy Network (@autselfadvocacy) June 24, 2022

Queer and neurodivergent liberation are entwined.https://t.co/52DMdaoYtu— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) June 25, 2022

A lot of people with disability rights activists I know have said people are withholding lawsuits right now because they don't want the Supreme Court to gut the ADA.— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) June 24, 2022

The white women who evoke Handmaids Tale imagery in this moment are also complicit because they waited until they could see themselves in the things Black, Indigenous and people of color have been experiencing since this countries inception in order to get upset rather— Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ (@Imani_Barbarin) June 24, 2022

The white women who evoke Handmaids Tale imagery in this moment are also complicit because they waited until they could see themselves in the things Black, Indigenous and people of color have been experiencing since this countries inception in order to get upset rather— Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ (@Imani_Barbarin) June 24, 2022

Embrace diversity.Unite—Or be divided,robbed,ruled,killedBy those who see you as prey.Embrace diversityOr be destroyed.--Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler pic.twitter.com/3arj0ESnov— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) June 24, 2022

"As per my previous work" pic.twitter.com/3rsLyYCpBx— Erin Ryan (@morninggloria) June 23, 2022

Roe is a massive disability rights/disability justice issue. Not simply because disabled persons have sex, vigorously, enthusiastically, and quite often, but because there's a long history of the state imposing abortion on disabled persons.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Moreover, there's a long history of the state seeking to control the reproduction of disabled persons for the good of society. And this history implicates the feckless left as well as the conservative right. None of your hands are clean where this is concerned.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Further, as many folks have pointed out: if you cede the authority to the state to determine who can and cannot have an abortion, you also cede the power to the state to impose abortion and sterilization upon you. The latter point is STILL FUCKING LAW in several states.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

And, with the end of Roe, challenges to these sterilization laws will become more difficult as rights to bodily and reproductive autonomy become imperiled by an emboldened right and a left unwilling to shed blood for our rights.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Disabled folks have fought long and bloody fights for the right to control our own bodies, our own reproduction. Roe may threaten to undo all of that. Put another way, if the loss of Roe renders people who can become pregnant sub-persons, this effect is magnified with disability.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

But, you'd know all this if the history of disability was considered fundamental to the histories of other struggles for liberation. But it isn't, and we will suffer because of it.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

If Octavia Butler were alive, she could write a book called Well Well Well that only had one page of text, and that text could read "As per my previous work"— Erin Ryan (@morninggloria) June 23, 2022

"As per my previous work" pic.twitter.com/3rsLyYCpBx— Erin Ryan (@morninggloria) June 23, 2022

Roe is a massive disability rights/disability justice issue. Not simply because disabled persons have sex, vigorously, enthusiastically, and quite often, but because there's a long history of the state imposing abortion on disabled persons.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Moreover, there's a long history of the state seeking to control the reproduction of disabled persons for the good of society. And this history implicates the feckless left as well as the conservative right. None of your hands are clean where this is concerned.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Further, as many folks have pointed out: if you cede the authority to the state to determine who can and cannot have an abortion, you also cede the power to the state to impose abortion and sterilization upon you. The latter point is STILL FUCKING LAW in several states.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

And, with the end of Roe, challenges to these sterilization laws will become more difficult as rights to bodily and reproductive autonomy become imperiled by an emboldened right and a left unwilling to shed blood for our rights.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

Disabled folks have fought long and bloody fights for the right to control our own bodies, our own reproduction. Roe may threaten to undo all of that. Put another way, if the loss of Roe renders people who can become pregnant sub-persons, this effect is magnified with disability.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

But, you'd know all this if the history of disability was considered fundamental to the histories of other struggles for liberation. But it isn't, and we will suffer because of it.— Dr. Flowers has embraced the Dark Side (@shengokai) June 24, 2022

I am seriously feeling relief like i never have before. I literally cannnnot say some peoples names or address them. Especially if i sense aggression from them. But i never understood nor could explain. I do not even address my husband by name directly to his face.— Neurodivergent | Jean Grey Rising (@Jeangreyrising) June 23, 2022

Motherhood Moment: Book Nook: Civil Rights Then and Now: https://t.co/GMz7j3JFy9— Kristina (She/Her) (@KristinaDaniele) June 17, 2022

Updated and expanded, featuring 18 songs and a journey of joy, pride, and pain.https://t.co/52DMdaoYtu— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) June 24, 2022

I'd also like to say a huge thanks to all those who have taken the time to download LEANS already ❤️It's amazing to hear so many people are already working on getting this adopted in their schools next year!— Dr. Alyssa M. Alcorn (@a_m_alcorn0131) June 24, 2022

I can't believe it--it's already 2 weeks since we released the #LEANSproject resources! Haven't seen them yet? Visit our website to download these new, free classroom resources for introducing neurodiversity concepts to primary pupils: https://t.co/JxTYiQD4ay pic.twitter.com/zK07ZNm1ju— Dr. Alyssa M. Alcorn (@a_m_alcorn0131) June 24, 2022