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Disability Studies perspective

Submitted by Ann Dixon on Wed, 05/05/2021 - 10:10am.

For a disability studies perspective on the use of CRISPR, see:

https://serendipstudio.org/oneworld/critical-disability-studies-theory-and-practice-2018/modern-eugenics-disability-theory-perspective

"During the eugenics movement, the concept of the perfect citizen began to take form as technology had given society the ability to prevent certain individuals from reproducing. As this idea took shape, the disability community was negatively impacted, since society held a belief similar to that of Peter Singer’s such that an individual with disability was not a “person” (Gabbard). While gene-editing technology continues to advance, issues raised during the eugenics movement have begun to resurface as we ask ourselves which conditions we should aim to eradicate. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing is one such technology that has the potential to help erase lethal diseases from the population, but also has the potential to erroneously attempt to eradicate forms of human diversity such as disabilities (Hayden)."

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