It's a low-key thing of eugenics

Disability reproductive injustice in barriers to cervical cancer screening during the Covid-19 pandemic

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ID4595692
AutoresMeredith Evans (0000-0002-9986-3185, The Scarborough Hospital), Kyara J Liu (0000-0002-7150-6485, Public Health Ontario), Alexandra Rego (The Scarborough Hospital), Nkem Ogbonna (The Scarborough Hospital), Sidrah K Zafar (0009-0000-5036-816X), Zafar, S Zafar (The Scarborough Hospital), Hilary K Brown (0000-0002-8690-5841, Public Health Ontario)
Ano2025
Volume369
Páginas117807
Data de publicação2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science & Medicine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117807
PMID39951868
OpenAlexW4407085396
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas40

Cervical cancer screening (CCS) is a critical component of preventative sexual and reproductive healthcare, yet there are disparities in access to CCS for people with disabilities. This qualitative community-engaged study uses the disability reproductive justice framework to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted people with disabilities' experiences with CCS in Canada. From May 2022 to March 2023, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 women and gender-diverse people with physical, sensory, cognitive, and/or mental health disabilities. Results from a thematic analysis indicate that barriers to CCS before and during the COVID-19 pandemic were characterized by inaccessibility, ableism and intersecting forms of oppression, provider distrust, the deprioritization of people with disabilities' sexual and reproductive healthcare, and the disregard for disabled people's autonomy. Grounded in these findings, this article situates preventative sexual and reproductive healthcare like CCS as a disability reproductive justice concern. Amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, barriers to CCS enacted disability reproductive injustice through everyday ableism and micro-eugenics that devalued people with disabilities. Barriers to CCS must be addressed in collaboration with disability communities. Guided by participant insights, recommendations include making preventative sexual and reproductive health services like CCS more accessible and available to people with disabilities, especially in the aftermath of public health emergencies that disproportionately impact disability communities

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Cancer · Cervical cancer · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Eugenics · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Injustice · Pandemic · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Cervical Cancer and HPV Research · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology · Virology