Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice
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- ISBN 9780192870957
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 160 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps would-be parents make better family planning choices. Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice challenges that assessment by exploring how NIPT can actually constrain pregnant women's options. Prospective parents must balance a complicated array of factors, including the familial, social, and financial support they can reasonably expect to receive if they choose to carry a disabled fetus to term and raise after birth, causing many pregnant women to “choose” termination.
Focusing on the US, the book explores the intent and effects of prenatal screening in connection to women's bodily autonomy and disability rights, addressing themes at the intersection of genetic medicine, policymaking, critical disabilities studies, and political theory. Knight and Miller shift debates about reprogenetics from bioethics to political practice, as well as thoroughly critiquing the neoliberal state and the eugenic technologies that support it. Providing concrete suggestions for reforming medical practice, welfare policy, and cultural norms surrounding disability, this book highlights sites of necessary reform to envision how prospective parents can make truly free choices about prenatal genetic testing and selection abortion.
Amber Knight is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include feminist theory, critical disability studies, beiothics, and contemporary political philosophy.
Joshua P. Miller is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research and teaching interests include feminist political theory, applied ethics, and the history of political thought.
