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BioethxChat
Transcript 2 - November 25, 2013
Topic: Disability Ethics: Autonomy, Rights, and Dignity
November 25, 2013
Sneak Preview: topics for upcoming chat
T1: Should parents undergoing IVF/PGD select against embryos with a ‘disability’? #Blindness? #Downs? #Dwarfism? #SickleCell? #NF? #bioethx
T2: Recent news incl parents/#caregivers who askd 2 cut vocal cords or stop puberty of disabled kids 2 care 4 more easily. Ethical? #bioethx
T3: Some ‘disabled’ form own community– 4 exmpl #deaf. Should parents b able 2 refuse cochlear implant 4 kid? Select for deaf kid? #bioethx
Chat in memory of Adrienne Asch, prominent bioethicist in field of Disability Ethics
1947 - 2013
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