Week 11 Question

Using prenatal tests to prevent the birth of babies with disabilities seems like a good idea to most people. Some members of the disability rights movement disagree, arguing that it violates the movement’s central tenet that living with disability need not be detrimental to disabled individuals, their families, or society. Write a response that might satisfy disability rights activists – either by agreeing that prenatal genetic testing is morally unsound OR by arguing that it is ethical, yet does not need to compromise the work of disability activists. (Or you can come up with another argument altogether, as long as it addresses the concerns of disability rights activists).

 

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