A response to Nelson and Mahowald

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 468-475

  Asch, Adrienne ^a   Wasserman, David ^a  

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EID: 34547945129     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180107070612     Document Type: Note

References (14)

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2. Fine M, Asch A. The question of disability: No easy answers for the women's movement. Reproductive Rights Newsletter 1982;4(3): 19-20.
3. Parens E, Asch A, editors. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press; 2000;
4. Asch A. Why I haven't changed my mind about prenatal diagnosis: Reflections and refinements. In: Parens E, Asch A, eds. Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press; 2000; Asch. A, Wasserman D. Where is the sin in synecdoche? In: Wasserman DT, Bickenbach JE, Wachbroit RS, eds. Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2005.
5. See note 3, Asch 2000:241.
6. Nelson JL. Testing, terminating and discriminating. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2007;16:462-68.
7. Goffman E. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentiss-Hall; 1963.
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9. See note 3, Asch 2000:237-8.
10. Why couldn't Nelson respond that the woman seeking a suitable sperm donor had begun the parental project of having a child with a suitable genetic endowment? Even if that undertaking could be called a parental project, it would be one that repudiated, in its very conception, the ideal of unconditional welcome.
11. Buchanan A. Choosing who will be disabled: Genetic intervention and the morality of inclusion. Social Philosophy and Policy 1996;13:18-36.
12. See note 3, Asch, Wasserman 2005.
13. See note 3, Parens, Asch 2000:x.
14. Asch A. Disability equality and prenatal testing: Contradictory or compatible? Florida State University Law Review 30:315-42, 333-4.