Prenatal Bioethics, Advocacy, and the Requirement of a Third Moral Space
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This paper addresses the question of how, in a futures context derived from perspectives surrounding clinical genetics, prenatal diagnosis and disability advocacy, there is a requirement for a third moral space. Just what this requirement is, and some of the reasons for it, shall be discussed here. In order to ground the paper in the current situation, attention is drawn, firstly to a chapter in a book entitled The Sorting Society (Sparrow, 2008), then to a keynote address concerning the ethics of prenatal diagnosis to the Australian Sonographers Association (Parker, 2006). Sparrow makes a sympathetic case for what he terms 'the expressivist critique' of prenatal bioethics. Parker's address to a select audience of medical sonographers re-asserts the beneficent right of genetic practitioners to proceed as planned, having withstood a failed 'expressivist objection' (Edwards, 2004) from what Abstract
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