Perfecting Pregnancy : Law, Disability, and the Future of Reproduction.

Cover; PERFECTING PREGNANCY; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; WHY PERFECTING PREGNANCY?; APPROACH AND ANALYSIS; THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; Framing Concepts -- Disability and Risk; A Genealogy of "Serious Disability" as a Regulatory Concept; The Future for Existing and Emerging Technologies for Avoiding Serious Disability; 1: Disability; 1 WHAT IS DISABILITY?; 1.1 Modeling Disability; 1.2 Is Disability Necessarily Negative?; 1.3 Is Disability Benign Bodily Difference?; 2 RESPONDING TO DISABILITY IN THE CONTEXT OF PRENATAL SCREENING AND SELECTION PRACTICES.

2.1 Eugenics, Discrimination, and the Expressivist Objection2.2 Identity, Discrimination, and Autonomy; 3 HOW DOES THE DISABILITY CRITIQUE RELATE TO REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE?; 3.1 Constructing the Choice to Accept Testing; 3.2 Selecting against Disability; 3.3 Do Prenatal Tests Overdetermine Disability?; 4 CONCLUSION; 2: Risk; 1 CONSTITUTING, MANAGING, AND MEASURING RISK IN PRENATAL AND PREIMPLANTATION TESTING; 1.1 Prenatal Testing; 1.2 Preimplantation Testing; 1.3 How Is Risk Measured and Managed?; 2 RISK AS PATHOLOGY; 2.1 What Is Normal?; 2.2 Risk Perception and the Need to Test.

2.3 Reproducing Responsibly?3 PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL RISK AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES; 3: Terminations; 1 OVERVIEW OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORKS GOVERNING ABORTION TO AVOID SERIOUS DISABILITY; 1.1 United States; 1.2 United Kingdom; 1.3 Australia; 2 FRAMING "SERIOUS DISABILITY" IN LAW; 3 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES ABOUT THE MEANING AND FUNCTION OF "SERIOUS HANDICAP"; 3.1 1960s Legislative Reform: United Kingdom and South Australia; 3.2 The "Serious Handicap" Provisions; 3.3 Opposition to the Provisions; 3.4 Legislative Conceptualization of Risk: "Substantial Risk."

3.5 Legislative Conceptualization of Seriousness4 CONTEMPORARY REFORMS -- "LATE" ABORTION AND SERIOUS DISABILITY; 4.1 Differential Time Limits for Serious Handicap Abortions; 4.2 Incompatible with Life? Postviability Abortions and Further Refinement of Serious Handicap; 4.3 Trusting Doctors to Interpret the Scope of "Seriousness"; 5 SERIOUSNESS, NORMALCY, AND PERFECTION; 4: Deselections; 1 PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; 2 UNITED KINGDOM; 2.1 The Beginnings of PGD; 2.2 Disability in the UK Debates; 2.3 The Law up to 2008; 2.4 The 2008 Amendments to the HFE Act; 3 AUSTRALIA.

3.1 Western Australia (1991)3.2 Victorian Developments (1995-2003); 3.3 South Australia (1988-2004); 3.4 Federal Law (2002-2008); 3.5 Western Australia (1998-2004); 3.6 Victoria (2008-2010); 3.7 South Australia (2010); 4 OTHER COUNTRIES; 4.1 Europe; 4.2 New Zealand; 4.3 Canada; 4.4 United States; 5 CONCLUSION; 5: Interpretations; 1 DIVERGENT OPINION AMONG CLINICIANS ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES A SERIOUSLY DISABLING CONDITION: A PROBLEM IN NEED OF A SOLUTION?; 2 POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS: POLICY RESPONSES TO DETERMINING SERIOUS DISABILITY; 2.1 A List-based Approach to Determining Seriousness.

2.2 Abortion Statistics and Seriousness.

Examines the legislative oversight in the regulation of prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies across a number of jurisdictions.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-373) and index.

In English.

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