Disability, identity and the "expressivist objection".

The expressivist objection to prenatal testing: the experiences of families living with genetic disease.

The expressivist objection to prenatal testing is acknowledged as a significant critique of prenatal testing practices most commonly advanced by disability rights supporters. Such writers argue that prenatal testing and selective termination practices are objectionable as they express disvalue not only of the foetus being tested, but also of disabled people as a whole, by focusing exclusively o...

The expressivist objection to prenatal diagnosis: can it be laid to rest?

Received 24 May 2007 Accepted 24 May 2007 Tom Shakespeare’s book Disability rights and wrongs is very rich and interesting and ought to be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the relation between disability and medical ethics. In my short contribution to this symposium on the book, I will focus on a particular aspect of his discussion of prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy. ...

Engaging with the Expressivist Objection

Prenatal Bioethics, Advocacy, and the Requirement of a Third Moral Space

This paper addresses the question of how, in a futures context derived from perspectives surrounding clinical genetics, prenatal diagnosis and disability advocacy, there is a requirement for a third moral space. Just what this requirement is, and some of the reasons for it, shall be discussed here. In order to ground the paper in the current situation, attention is drawn, firstly to a chapter i...

Against Alusi`s Objection on the Imamate of Imams on the Basis of the Word Innama in the Verse of Wilayat

Shi'ite commentators have always proved Imam Ali`s succession for the Prophet based on the 55 verses of Maidah known as the verse of wilayat. Some Sunnite commentators have put some objections forward against this interpretative approach. Alusi, one Sunni commentator, states that: The Shi'a interpretation of the verse 55 of Maidah leads to the negation of the authority of the other Shi'a Imams....