CRPD/C/GC/3 crimes committed in the name of so-called honour, dowry-related violence, widowhoodrelated practices and accusations of witchcraft. 46 The consequences of these harmful practices go far beyond social exclusion. They reinforce harmful gender stereotypes, perpetuate inequalities and contribute to discrimination against women and girls. They can result in physical and psychological violence and economic exploitation. Harmful practices based on patriarchal interpretations of culture cannot be evoked to justify violence against women and girls with disabilities. In addition, women and girls with disabilities are particularly at risk of “virgin testing” 47 and, regarding HIV/AIDS-related misbeliefs, “virgin rapes”.48 B. Sexual and reproductive health and rights, including respect for the home and the family (arts. 23 and 25) 38. Wrongful stereotyping related to disability and gender is a form of discrimination that has a particularly serious impact on the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the right to a found a family. Harmful stereotypes of women with disabilities include the belief that they are asexual, incapable, irrational, lacking control and/or hypersexual. Like all women, women with disabilities have the right to choose the number and spacing of their children, as well as the right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. 49 39. Women with disabilities face multiple barriers to the enjoyment of sexual and reproductive health and rights, equal recognition before the law and access to justice. In addition to facing barriers resulting from multiple discrimination on the grounds of gender and disability, some women with disabilities, such as refugees, migrants and asylum seekers, face additional barriers because they are denied access to health care. Women with disabilities may also face harmful eugenic stereotypes that assume that they will give birth to children with disabilities and thus lead women with disabilities being discouraged or prevented from realizing their motherhood.50 40. Women with disabilities may also be denied access to information and communication, including comprehensive sexuality education, based on harmful stereotypes that assume that they are asexual and do not therefore require such information on an equal basis with others. Information may also not be available in accessible formats. Sexual and reproductive health information includes information about all aspects of sexual and reproductive health, including maternal health, contraceptives, family planning, sexually transmitted infections, HIV prevention, safe abortion and post-abortion care, infertility and fertility options, and reproductive cancer. 51 46 47 48 49 50 51 10 See joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2014) on harmful practices,, para. 7. Ibid., para. 9. See A/HRC/20/5 and Corr.1,, para. 24. Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences. See A/67/227, para. 36. See Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 22 (2016) on the right to sexual and reproductive health, para. 18.