Posted January 7, 2002 Does Prenatal Diagnosis Discriminate Against People With Disabilities?
Project Information This is a short information sheet to let you know about a research project that may be of interest to you, and to ask you to consider having some input. The project is called “Does Prenatal Diagnosis Discriminate Against People With Disabilities?” It is a 3-year, multi-disciplinary project funded by the Australian Research Council. It aims to explicate and critically analyze the meaning(s) of the claim made by some disability activists that pre-natal screening and diagnosis programs discriminate against persons with disabilities. We intend to enrich and extend bioethical analysis of the discrimination claim through rigorous engagement with perspectives from both academic and non-academic perspectives on disability. Here we will explore the attitudes of persons with disabilities toward prenatal screening, as well as their perceptions of discrimination, oppression, and disempowerment. In so doing, we hope to develop new, empirically oriented research methods for futur
