Why is it important for women with disabilities to make their own choices about sterilisation?
It’s a power thing. I really don’t like the idea, I object wholeheartedly to anyone else making choices about a woman, about a woman’s body because I think even women with disability have the ability to know what’s going on in their body and to make informed choices about what they want to do with their body, how they want to live. I still I don’t think that sterilisation is the best alternative. Cause it’s a major operation is really disturbing for someone who doesn’t quite know what’s happening, and I just think that women, even women with disabilities, all women, regardless of that, need to be able to make their own choices or to be informed. People are not given the information to make informed choices because maybe the doctor that they’re seeing hasn’t had exposure to the research or doesn’t know the latest thing in women’s health.
