| 英文摘要 |
In 1984, the enactment of the Genetic Health Act, literally translated as the“Eugenics and Health Act,”conditionally legalized abortion, with the women’s rights movement playing a significant role in this development. However, the drafting processes of the Genetic Health Act within the framework of national population policy gradually solidified eugenics as a consensus between the state and civil society. This article adopts the theoretical perspectives of the feminist theory of disability and reproductive justice to reexamine the history of the women’s reproductive rights movement, which aimed to decriminalize abortion within the context of national population policy. Eugenics became a prevailing discourse during a standstill in the legislation of the Genetic Health Act. The women’s rights movement tacitly accepted the state’s eugenics language and exploited the stereotype of disability to further its own goals of legalizing abortion. However, the incremental strategy of the women’s rights movement, aligned with the state’s policies, came at a cost—the Genetic Health Act became a crucial legal basis for the state to control the reproduction of disabled individuals, especially disabled women. The drafting process of the Welfare Law for Handicapped Persons and the Physically and Mentally Disabled Citizens Protection Act was heavily influenced by the drafting process of the Genetic Health Act and was highly embedded with eugenics. Following the enactment of the Genetic Health Act, the New Family Planning initiated in the 1990s shifted its focus to comprehensively improving population quality. In the 2000s, although criticized by Disabled People’s Organizations, the Regulations Governing the Expenses Reduction, Exemption or Subsidy of Genetic Health Measures solely provided support for contraception to particular groups, including disabled individuals, which denied the reproductive rights of the disabled. |