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Reductio Ad Absurdum

It's impossible to make a "reductio ad absurdum" argument about reproductive rights, because in a eugenicist society, there is no form of reproductive control that many people won't genuinely and sincerely endorse.

Sometimes, these arguments are meant to highlight gender or sex disparity -- if society regulates the reproduction of people who can become pregnant, then why not regulate the reproduction of people who can impregnate others? Why not mandatory vasectomies, mandatory condoms, mandatory sperm control? Except, while the intent of this argument may be to highlight the double standard and unjust control exerted against people who can become pregnant, these are also things that not-insignificant numbers of people would genuinely, unironically support. A serious proposal for mandatory universal long-acting reversible contraception until people prove themselves "financially and emotionally ready" to reproduce (by American bourgeois cultural and economic standards, of course) would genuinely be a popular proposal. Mandatory contraception for disabled people and poor people would be even more so. Forced sterilization of disabled people still goes on in the U.S., and it is relatively uncontroversial outside disability rights circles.

Another attempted reproductive rights "reductio ad absurdum" argument: Why not give children hormone treatments to block them from going through puberty? Ridiculous and abusive, right? Except this is already done to disabled children. There is tremendous moral panic around disabled children and puberty, and tremendous medicalization to "manage" and prevent it, from hormonal birth control to prevent menstruation, to treatments for "high testosterone" that are really about behavioral control, to, in the most extreme form, forced medically unnecessary hysterectomies. Abled people are terrified of the physical maturation of disabled children, because in their minds, it represents disabled children growing up and escaping their caregivers' control. Better to keep them physically children to justify perpetually treating them as mental children.

Disabled people -- especially multiply marginalized disabled people, including disabled people of color, disabled people in poverty, and disabled immigrants -- have their bodies and reproductivity regularly controlled and policed to prevent them from generating more "burdensome" children, or even from exerting adult agency over their own bodies and lives. There is no argument you can make for "If this regulation, then why don't we regulate..." that hasn't made or outright openly practiced against disabled or otherwise marginalized people.