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Overview
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. 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, health care professionals, scholars, and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for people with disabilities and for parent-child relationships generally.The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Booknews
"Against a background of burgeoning genetic discovery, rising consciousness of discrimination against people with disabilities, and the societal debate about abortion, The Hastings Center undertook a two-year project to explore the disability rights critique of prenatal testing for genetic disability" (from the introduction). Project members, mostly academics in fields such as biology, ethics, genetic research, philosophy, and law, met as a group on multiple occasions to research and discuss this and related issues. Their contributions here illustrate a variety of perspectives about parenthood, disability, and professional practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)