Research shows that a high majority of parents receiving prenatal diagnosis of intellectual
disability terminate pregnancy. They have reasons for rejecting a child with intellectual …

In this paper I argue that selective abortion for disability often involves inadequate
counselling on the part of reproductive medicine professionals who advise prospective …

Although I self-identify as pro-choice, I do believe certain instances of abortion can be
classified as, in Judith Jarvis Thomson's words, indecent. This paper explores one such …

Current public and philosophical debate concerning the morality of prenatal testing and
selective abortion is occurring at the intersection of a number of complex social …

A fascinating criticism of abortion occasioned by prenatal diagnosis of potentially disabling
traits is that the complex of test-and-abortion sends a morally disparaging message to …

ABSTRACT In 'Parental Virtues: A New Way of Thinking about the Morality of Reproductive
Actions' Rosalind McDougall proposes a virtue‐based framework to assess the morality of …

The deeply entrenched, sometimes heated conflict between the disability movement and the
profession of bioethics is well known and well documented. Critiques of prenatal diagnosis …

Two developments in the 1970s and 1980s led to a striking contrast in public attitudes and
policies toward having children with disabilities. On the one hand, the more routine …

Bioethicists often use the “nonidentity problem”—the idea that a child born with a disability
would actually be a different child if she were born without the disability—to defend parents' …

Medical professionals routinely offer prenatal genetic testing services to their expecting
patients. Some bioethicists believe that when these professionals promote the use of such …