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Book SynopsisAs prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care--it helps parents have healthy babies. But prenatal tests have been criticized by the disability rights community. Used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with mental or physical impairments, prenatal tests arguably reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. In these essays, health care professionals, scholars, and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for people with disabilities and for parent-child relationships generally.
Trade ReviewEssential reading for anyone working in perinatal medicine and genetic counseling. Health Progress
Table of ContentsIntroductionErik Parens and Adrienne AschPart One: Overview and Context of the ProjectThe Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing: Reflections and RecommendationsErik Parens and Adrienne AschThe Current State of Prenatal Genetic Testing in the United StatesCynthia M. PowellPart Two: Parenthood, Disability, and Prenatal TestingSomewhere a MockingbirdDeborah KentWhy I Had AmniocentesisMary Ann BailyThe Experience of Disability in Families; A Synthesis of Research and Parent NarrativesPhilip M. Ferguson, Alan Gartner, and Dorothy K. LipskyWays to Limit Prenatal TestingWilliam RuddickDisability, Prenatal Testing, and Selective AbortionBonnie SteinbockTechnology and the Genetic Imaginary: Prenatal Testing and the construction of DisabilityBruce JenningsPart Three: The Messages and Meanings of Prenatal Genetic TestingWhy Members of the Disability Community Oppose Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective AbortionMarsha SaxtonOn the Expressivity and Ethics of Selective Abortion for Disability: Conversations with My SonEva Feder Kittay with Leo KittayThe Meaning of the Act: Reflections on the Expressive Force of Reproductive Decision Making and PoliciesJames Lindemann NelsonAssessing the Expressive Character of Prenatal Testing: The Choices Made or the Choices Made AvailableNancy PressWhy I Haven't Changed My Mind about Prenatal Diagnosis: Reflections and RefinementsAdrienne AschPart Four: Making Policies, Delivering ServicesDrawing Lines: Notes for PolicymakersDorothy C. WertzLine Drawing: Developing Professional Standards for Prenatal Diagnostic ServicesJeffrey R. BotkinPrenatal Genetic Testing and the CourtsPilar N. OssorioReflections from the Trenches: One Doctor's Encounter with Disability Rights ArgumentsSteven J. RalstonWhat Difference the Disability Community Arguments Should Make for the Delivery of Prenatal Genetic InformationBarbara Bowles Biesecker and Lori HambyContributorsIndex
