Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologies

by Chris Kaposy

Book Overview

An argument that more people should have children with Down syndrome, written from a pro-choice, disability-positive perspective.

The rate at which parents choose to terminate a pregnancy when prenatal tests indicate that the fetus has Down syndrome is between 60 and 90 percent. In Choosing Down Syndrome, Chris Kaposy offers a carefully reasoned ethical argument in favor of choosing to have such a child. Arguing from a pro-choice,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037718
• ISBN13: 9780262037716
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher