Prenatal testing and disability: A truce in the culture wars?

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 7-8

  Dresser, Rebecca ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY; DOWN SYNDROME; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; LAW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; STANDARD;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CULTURE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEONATAL SCREENING; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 67651174407     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0137     Document Type: Short Survey

References (11)

1. Public Law 110-374, 122 Stat. 4051 (October 8, 2008).
2. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Practice Bulletin, "Invasive Prenatal Testing for Aneuploidy," Obstetrics and Gynecology 110 (2007): 1459-67.
3. See E. Parens and A. Asch, "The Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing: Reflections and Recommendations," in Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights, ed. E. Parens and A. Asch (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000), 3-43.
4. P.E. Bauer, "Tell Them It's Not So Bad," http://www. patriciaebauer.com/2007/10/02/tell-them-its-not-so-bad.
5. B.G. Skotko, "Prenatally Diagnosed Down Syndrome: Mothers Who Continued Their Pregnancies Evaluate Their Health Care Providers," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192 (2005): 670-77.
6. B.M. Kuehn, "Prenatal Genome Testing Sparks Debate," Journal of the American Medical Association 300 (2008): 1637-39.
7. R. Dresser, "From Double Standard to Double Bind: Informed Choice in Abortion Law," George Washington Law Review 76 (2008): 1599-1622;
8. R. Dresser, "Protecting Women from Their Abortion Choices," Hastings Center Report 37 (2007): 6-7.
9. Parens and Asch, note 3, at 33-37.
10. See Services and Treatment for Disabled Infants, 45 C.F.R. Sec. 1340.15 (2007).
11. See N. Fost, "Decisions Regarding Treatment of Seriously Ill Newborns," Journal of the American Medical Association 281 (1999): 2041-43.