Context: UP draft Population Bill stigmatises and devalues persons with disabilities.
Background: The draft Bill, even while adopting a highly objectionable and coercive approach to population control, grants exemption to certain classes of individuals from the two-child norm (under Section 15).
Issues with the exemptions:
Conclusion: The UP draft Bill seeks to codify and institutionalise an ableist mindset. It stigmatises and devalues the disabled as lesser beings. Apart from its regressive, anti-poor and anti-women nature, it should also be opposed for reinforcing an ableist mindset.