Who has a meaningful life? A care ethics analysis of selective trait abortion

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 27 (2):205-216 (2024)
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Trait Selective Abortions (TSA) have come under critique as a medical practice that presents potential disabled infants as burdens and lacking the potential for meaningful lives. This paper, using the author’s background as a disabled person, contends that the philosophy underpinning TSAs reflects liberal society’s lack of a theory of needs. The author argues for a care ethics based approach informed by disability analyses to engage with TSAs.

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