Category Disability

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Risk Perception is Highly Personal
Alessandro Marcon and Vardit Ravitsky present their research into online discussions of interpreting risk related to non-invasive prenatal testing.

Lost and Won: A challenge of the UK law that allows discrimination
Colette Lloyd argues that a recent challenge to United Kingdom’s Abortion Act is about discrimination, not abortion.

Polygenic Risk Scores to Select Embryos: A Need for Societal Debate
Hazar Haidar discusses the need for a societal debate to explore challenges related to polygenic embryo screening.

Lost and Won: A Challenge of the UK Law Allowing Selective Termination
Chris Kaposy discusses the significance of a recent challenge of the United Kingdom’s Abortion Act by a group that included Heidi Crowter, a woman who has Down syndrome.

Disability Stigma Affects Care for Disabled Patients
Alison Reiheld evokes a famous exchange between Harriet McBryde Johnson and Peter Singer to illustrate a new study that provides further evidence that clinicians’ stigma against people with disabilities affects their care.