Selection against Disability: Abortion, ART, and Access.

J Law Med Ethics

Dean and Professor of Law at Albany Law School, and a Professor of Bioethics in the Union Graduate College/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She earned her A.B. at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and her J.D. from Albany Law School in Albany, NY.

Published: December 2016

This essay re-examines the disability critique of prenatal and pre-implantation screening in light of evidence about the larger context in which fertility and reproductive healthcare is rendered in the U.S. It argues that efforts to identify acceptable criteria for trait-based selection or otherwise impose reasons-based limitations on reproductive choice should be avoided because such limitations tend to perpetuate the discrimination encountered by adults with disabilities seeking fertility and reproductive health services.

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