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The Disability Party and Abortion

February 12, 2019 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

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The Disability Party and Abortion

Disability Party has a position on abortion that some people find problematic.  It is important for everyone to understand why this political party would limit the reach of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), which was the landmark case recognizing abortion as a constitutional right.

Abortion is not the only right in the U.S. Constitution.  There are rights against discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause and of course there are civil rights statutes flowing from constitutional authority given to Congress.  The state and federal governments of the United States are prohibited from depriving a person of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.  Life comes first, before liberty.

Disability Party does not disagree that there is a right to an abortion and does not disagree with the general principle.  However, such a rule must have exceptions for good reasons.  Those reasons include racist choices, ableist choices, misogynist choices, and so on.  In other words, a woman should not be able to kill her fetus simply based on that baby falling under a civil rights category she opposes.

We find a similar argument in employment law.  The underlying principle is that an employer can fire someone for any reason or no reason and this is called employment “at will”. We have moved well beyond that principle to ban discrimination in employment and firings based on a wide variety of civil rights categories enshrined in civil rights laws.  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, (www.eeoc.gov) enforces these prohibitions on discrimination and retaliation.

The EEOC lists the areas where discrimination in employment is prohibited.  “Unfair treatment because of your race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.”

You see these categories of civil rights protection in employment and housing and public benefits, all over the place.  The one place these civil rights have not been applied is life itself before birth.  One example of this principle being applied to abortion was struck down by a Court of Appeals that is out of its mind and has always been against disability rights.  This bizarre court behavior is why I asked for the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to be abolished as unconstitutional.  Straw v. United States, 18-5247 (D.C. Cir. 2018).  Courts protect each other and I was not able to get my relief even though I was 100% correct.

Disability Party had this position before the State of Indiana did.

We should not be Nazis.  The Nazis sterilized people and aborted their children if they fell under certain disfavored civil rights categories that we protect today.  This was also known as the Murder of the Handicapped.

To reject Nazism and Eugenics, one must reject everything the Nazis did and stood for.  Americans lost many lives in WWII and they fought against the evil that was Nazism.  I believe when we think of Nazi policies killing disabled babies, we should remember the sacrifices Americans and the Allies made to destroy that evil regime.  I look to Saving Private Ryan and the invasion of Normandy.

Disability Party also opposes Nazism and will always be against abortion that is done to kill someone based on their civil rights categories.  There is no absolute freedom to abort just as there is no absolute freedom to fire someone.  Civil rights and disability rights override those freedoms because sometimes a wicked freedom is morally unjustified, just as other crimes are simply prohibited wicked freedoms.

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About Andrew Straw

Andrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practiced disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy.    Straw was a Virginia lawyer and has served as corporate counsel for billionaire Alan M. Voorhees, who designed the Interstate Highway System and the Metro in Washington DC.  Straw then worked for the Chief Justice of Indiana and was the assistant dean in charge of the International Programs at Indiana University-Maurer School of Law.

He grew up in Indiana, where his brother, a retired USAF captain and twice a critical care trauma nurse veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018.  Jason Straw is head of Indiana NORML and seeks reforms of the state’s marijuana laws like most other states have.  Jason is known as “Captain Cannabis.”

Andrew Straw was born at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where his father was training as a U.S. Marine for his Vietnam duty.  Straw was thus poisoned on the first days of his life but was denied compensation and health care.  Straw v. Wilkie, 843 F. App’x 263 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 4 F.4th 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2021).  Straw started a group for people born or poisoned there called Children of Camp LeJeune.  Congress voted to compensate people like Straw and his dead mother from the poisoning (S. 3373, Title VIII, Sec. 804).  This new law has passed the U.S. House by 342-88 and the U.S. Senate by 86-11.  It will likely be signed by President Biden in early August now that it has passed both houses.

Straw has visited 16 countries and has lived in the United States, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and the Philippines.  Straw provided services to the Italian Foreign Ministry as a contractor and passed the written U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test in 1998.  For more information, Straw’s CV can be found here.  Straw has lived in the Philippines for over 4 years, from June 2018 – August 2022, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the human rights violations stop.

He is an asylum seeker due to the discrimination and human rights violations of state and federal courts in the USA.  Andrew Straw lives just 1374 km from where his father was stationed in Vietnam. See also. Straw is engaging in pro se law reform from a distance.

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