BIO 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
1 Apr 2020
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The morality of screening for disability, jeff mcmahan. Mcmahan examines arguments against using screening technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis to avoid giving birth to a disabled child. The most common objections are that screening and selection are discriminatory, diminish human diversity, cause disabled people social harms, and express a hurtful view toward them. Those who object this type of screening do so on the grounds that it is discriminatory. It seems as if the aim of these tests is to rid of the world of a certain type of person. Some might even argue that for society to endorse and support screening for disability is analogous to promoting efforts to prevent the births of people of a particular racial group (vaughn, 594). Not only are these screenings detrimental to the disabled as a group, but are also harmful to those that living as disabled.
