Bioethics for the People

Hot Take #2: Prenatal Screening, Parenting, and Disability


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Devan & Tyler talk about the ethical issues raised in a new Atlantic Monthly article entitled: “The Last Children of Down Syndrome.” 

Read More about these topics, below:

  • Reproductive Choice and Disability Stigma,” by Devan Stahl (Immanent Frame) 2020.

  • The More You Know: The Ethics of Prenatal Testing,” by Denise Balkissoon (Today’s Parent) 2014.

  • Why Members of the Disability Community Oppose Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion,” by Marsha Saxton (Prenatal Testing & Disability Rights) 2000.

  • Challenging the Rhetoric of Choice in Prenatal Screening,” by Victoria Seavilleklein (Bioethics) 2008.

  • Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Agar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening,” by Gareth Thomas & Barbara Katz Rothman (AMA Journal of Ethics) 2016.

  • US Supreme Court Case: “Buck vs. Bell” (1927).

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