ATS1264 Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Equivalence, Prenatal Diagnosis, Genetic Testing
5 Dec 2018
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[ask your physician about their conscience" before the test] Opposite view to gp --> privacy fundamentalism - doctor has no prerogative/duty to disclose the information. Case example: daughter (was pregnant) sues father https://www. bionews. org. uk/page_96015. Genetics and adoption - discussed in leighton article: prospective adoptive parents having tests done on child available for adoption (find out if they have a genetic condition - > even ones that can be treated / cured. What about conditions that it might get e. g. predispositions?: consider analogy between adoption and prenatal testing --> potential moral equivalence. People already do discriminate" in the adoption context: newborns (vs. older children), singletons, skin colour, etc. discrimination already built in to the adoption process. Discrimination - 2 ways to use this term: "discriminatory" person --> finely grained ways of distinguishing/differentiating between things (non-normative: distinctions made in a hierarchy, some things better than others (normative/arguably negative view) There already are conditions on adopter eligibility (e. g. age, stable income, health status, etc. )
