Topic: Prenatal Testing

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Topic #4
Explain the criticism of the ethics of prenatal screening that has been offered from perspective of people with disabilities. Do you agree or disagree with this perspective? Why or why not? This question asks you to examine the worries that people with disabilities have about the way in which prenatal screening is currently offered in our culture and to take a position on whether you are persuaded by any of their arguments. The thesis of your paper should therefore be either “people with disabilities have legitimate worries about the way in which prenatal screening is handled in our culture” or “the worries of people with disabilities about the way in which prenatal screening is handled in our culture can be answered.” The rest of your paper should provide an argument that defends whatever thesis you choose.
The following readings are relevant to this topic: Gareth Thomas, “Un/Inhabitable Worlds”; Madeo et. al, “The Relationship between the Genetic Counseling Profession and the Disability Community: A Commentary”; and Patricia Bauer “Reaching across the Disability Divide.” Although these articles are not about prenatal screening directly, you will also want to consider arguments offered in Hentoff, Nat, “The Awful Privacy of Baby Jane Doe” and Stubblefield, Anna. “’Beyond the Pale’: Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic Sterilization
Chicago Manual of Style Author-date Citation Format
In-text citations
Book
(Maybee 2009, 304)
Article in journal, four or more authors
(Fowler et al. 2000, 90)
Article in book
(Wiredu 2003, 78)
Article, in journal, three authors or less
(Grabois, Nosek, and Rossi 1999, 49)
Bibliography
Fowler, LaDonna, Tom Seekins, Kathy Dwyer, Susan W. Duffy, Rodney L. Brod, and Carol Locust.
2000. “American Indian Disability Legislation and Programs.” Journal of Disability Policy
Studies 10 (2): 166–85.
Grabois, E. W., M. A. Nosek, and C. D. Rossi. 1999. “Accessibility of Primary Care Physicians’ Offices
for People with Disabilities. An Analysis of Compliance with the Americans With Disabilities
Act.” Archives of Family Medicine 8 (1): 44–51.
Maybee, Julie E. 2009. Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Logic. Lanham,
Md.: Lexington Books.
Wiredu, Kwasi. 2003. “The Moral Foundations of an African Culture.” In The African Philosophy Reader
a Text with Readings, edited by P. H Coetzee and A. P. J Roux, 2nd ed., 287–96. New York:
Routledge.
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