Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)

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Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics)

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As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care―it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community, which contends that advances in science should be directed at improving their lives, not preventing them. Used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with mental or physical impairments, prenatal tests arguably reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities.In these essays, people on...

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0878408045, 9780878408047

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