Population bill- Ethical concerns over disabled children [Explained]

Sources: Indian Express ; The wire

The Bill on population control introduced by the Uttar Pradesh Law Commission, creating a ceiling of two children, has been criticized – for good reason – for being based on outdated thinking and adopting unconstitutional means.

How it plays into the widely prevalent notion of the disabled as a burden.?

Child with disability is not a child: Section 15 allows having additional child if child born with disability -simply not counting disabled as child.
Against global attempts for equality: Regressive towards global campaigns to equip person with disabilities to front row with full and equal life.
Against acts: 2016 Act recognizes, persons with disabilities “enjoy various rights such as the right to equality, life with dignity, respect for his or her integrity, etc., equally with others”.
Discriminatory: Discriminating disabled child from normal child from child hood itself which is prohibited in section 3 of 2016 act.
Fundamental rights: Provisions runs contrary to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, the constitutional entitlements that inhere in the disabled and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Dignity: Unstated premise of provision that an able bodied child is needed to compensate for a disabled one constitutes an assault on the dignity of disabled bodies.

The Uttar Pradesh government provision offers the wrong solution to the right problem. Financial and institutional support to such families to raise disabled child to full potential is the needed.

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