can i just say like telling people not to smoke or drink alcohol while they’re pregnant is ableist and classist as fuck and it needs to stop
first off the majority of smokers/substance abusers are from disadvantaged and poor backgrounds or are struggling with mental health issues and they use it as a coping method so to tell them theyre a bad person for doing that is both classist and ableist
the main argument against it is that your child will come out disabled but honestly if that happens so what??? whats wrong with that??? this whole mindset has deep fucking roots in ableist thought process and im fucking sick of it. like. why do you hate people with disabilities lol
this is the best post to describe this website
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this is so idiotic and this post is based on completely uneducated views of the topic. You can’t say that trying to prevent a soon to be child from having a rougher life due to choices their parents make is ableist. Trying to help a situation by making it more healthy and safe for both parent and child isn’t a fucking ableist thought process. Are you kidding me? “So what if the baby is disabled?” I don’t know. Who is going to pay for the defects the child might have to deal with? Who is going to stand up for the child when they’re being bullied for something they couldn’t control? Who is going to sit and help that child through a life that could have been entirely different had their parent not made poor decisions while pregnant? But that doesn’t matter, right? Because that’s ableist thought process.
I agree 100% with belle, the original post is ridiculously ignorant
as a disabled person, i beg you not to smoke or drink while pregnant. i complain about ableism a lot, but it’s not ableist to urge people not to harm their children before they’re even born? it’s not about thinking disabled children are undesireable - it’s about giving every child the best chance to enter the world in the safest way possible. disabilities can happen at any time for any reason, but the harm caused to a fetus through alcohol and tobacco use is absolutely preventable and we need to hold parents-to-be accountable for that.