Exactly.
Marta
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
> Garland Allen speaks to some of our concerns here:
>
> "With current availability of many genetic screening tests and
> amniocentrsis, we already have in place a kind of 'laissez-faire' eugenics,
> to use Philip Kitcher's phrase. Add to this, the growing pressure from
> halth providers on families not to have, or to abort, 'at risk' offspring,
> reproductive decisions are already being made with respect to 'genetic
> defects' albeit not under orders from the state. This is what critic Troy
> Duster has termed 'the backdoor to eugenics'. Is corporate pressure so much
> different, or less insidious, than state pressure? We may be splitting
> hairs in trying to answer that one."
>
> "Genetics, eugenics, and the medicalization of social behavior: lessons
> from the past" Endeavor, vol 23(1), 1999
-- Marta Russell author, Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html