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    It is not the case that A woman's reproductive autonomy in bearing a child likely to have a disease or disability is constrained in practice despite formal legal freedom

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    • 1.Practical difficulty in exercising a right does not constitute constraint on autonomy unless the difficulty is deliberately imposed by a rights-violating agent.
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    • 2.Ableist social attitudes and resource scarcity are diffuse social conditions, not targeted coercions, and conflating them with rights violations dilutes the normative force of autonomy claims.
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    • 3.Gerald Dworkin and Joel Feinberg's analyses of autonomy distinguish between conditions that impair self-authorship and background social pressures that merely shape option sets.
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    • 1.Noel Sharkey and others in the disability studies literature argue that framing societal attitudes as 'constraints' on reproductive choice risks paternalistic reframing of women's authentic, voluntary decisions as coerced outcomes.
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    • 2.If every socially influenced decision is recharacterized as constrained, reproductive autonomy loses descriptive precision and becomes unfalsifiable as a claim about practical freedom.
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    • 1.Valuing reproductive autonomy requires supporting a woman's decision to bear a child likely to have a disease or disability
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    • 2.Pressure from clinicians, refusal of health insurers, ableist societal attitudes, lack of financial resources, and lack of social support make this choice practically difficult
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