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petra's picture

I thought this article was really interesting because it clearly highlights the issues that exist on both sides of the disability argument. The question is not the issue of whether disabled babies should live or not, like Singer argues, but if we should be able to choose that babies are disabled. I feel like our class pretty much collectively decides that disabled babies should not be killed, but it would be interesting to discuss this article; should we actively try to create disabled babies to show that disability, or at least deafness, is a culture rather than a disability?