Normalizing Disability in Families

J Law Med Ethics. 2015 Summer;43(2):224-7. doi: 10.1111/jlme.12236.

Abstract

This comment shifts Ouellette's frame of reference in linking prenatal selection against disability, laws prohibiting prenatal sex selection, and fertility specialists' discrimination against disabled adults. Viewing decisions about who can reproduce and what children will be born as fundamentally decisions about family suggests ways to promote acceptance of people with disabilities as valued family members — without limiting reproductive liberties.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Disabled Persons*
  • Family*
  • Humans