TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This paper examines the implications of the disability rights critique of prenatal testing on the development of genetic policy and abortion rights. It traces the reappearance of the disabled body in public deliberations over reproductive and genetic politics that use disability to frame arguments about which bodies are worthy of protection, how and why we limit reproductive choices, and what reasons women may use to terminate their pregnancies. The disability critique of prenatal testing and selective abortion finds itself in productive tension with reproductive rights politics, which increasingly features disability in both pro-life and pro-choice messages. The uneasy alliance between disability and pro-life interests has profound implications for both disability legal scholarship and the sociolegal inquiry into the role of rights articulation – and rejection – by social movements.
VL  - 76
SN  - 978-1-78756-208-0, 978-1-78756-207-3/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1108/S1059-433720180000076006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720180000076006
AU  - Heyer Katharina
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights: Challenging “Genetic Genocide”
T2  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 101
EP  - 129
Y2  - 2024/09/21
ER  -