Protecting the future well: access to preconception genetic screening and testing and the right not to use it
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Griffith Law Review, 2016, 25 (1), pp. 71 - 86
- Issue Date:
- 2016-01-02
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© 2016 Griffith University. In this article, I assess the ethical and legal implications for a progressive and inclusive approach towards people with disability, of providing publicly funded and universal access to carrier testing and expanded carrier testing. In answering this question I focus on two main concerns namely whether such access (1) involves a neoliberal individualisation of risk and responsibility away from the State and (2) might impinge on the reproductive and other rights of people with disability. With respect to this last question I ask specifically is it possible to provide whole-population preconception genetic carrier screening while legally guaranteeing the reproductive rights to conceive of prospective parents, both women and men, who test positive as a carrier for an inheritable genetic condition?
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