The brutal history of abandoning or killing disabled infants in parts of the ancient world.
Some lives were rejected before they had a chance to be known.
Disabled infants in parts of the ancient world could be abandoned, exposed or killed. This history is painful, but it shows how old the devaluing of disabled lives is.
The danger begins when society decides that some bodies or minds are not worth raising, protecting or knowing.
Awareverse keeps the opposite principle at the centre: no human being should have to prove they are worth seeing.
When looking at infanticide and disability, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?