This is typical. Sounds like Peter Singer has been successful. I suggeset
a feminist ethics of care approach, re-articulated under a disabiltiy
perspective/standpoint, and maybe the Anarchist Cookbook.
Cheers,
alexa
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Janet Iles wrote:
> I wondered if anyone else had read the article which appeared in the
> London Metro free publication in the last day or so:
>
> Parents 'have duty to abort disabled babies'
>
> Parents will soon have a moral duty to abort pregnancies when a severe
> disability is detected, a leading scientist has suggested.
> Bob Edwards, who led the team behind Britain's first test tube baby,
> said it will be a 'sin' for parents to give birth to a disabled child.
> He claimed science's increasing ability to screen out genetic defects
> during the early stages of pregnancy would create a world in which the
> 'quality' of children could be monitored and controlled.
> Edwards, who believes fertility treatment and screening programmes will
> eventually become tools for social engineering, was speaking at the
> annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and
> Embryology in France.
> He said "Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child that carries
> the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we
> have to consider the quality of our children"
> Mike Willis of the ProLife Alliance said: "Doctors are turning human
> life into a commodity. This of course, was part of Adolf Hitler's
> philosophy. You cannot start culling embryos because once you do that
> no-one is safe. What's next? Will they start weeding out people who
> are gay?"
>
> (end of article)
>
> I wondered if anyone felt like commenting about this?
>
> Janet Iles
> Student, M.A. Disability Studies (Leeds University)
>
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