Can there be such a thing as a ‘wrongful birth’?

Pritchard, Megan

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“…Conscious of the implications for disabled people, 21 no Law Lord can bring himself to say expressly that a disabled child is of less benefit to their parents than a healthy child. But fundamentally, as Priaulx notes, 'unless one articulates that a disabled child is not a blessing, it is simply impossible to find a convincing legal explanation for the exception created in Parkinson'.…”

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Wrongful existence claims: the 'McFarlane Approach', trends in policy and ethics, and the future

Troke¹

2007

Clinical Risk

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potential disproportion between the level of fault and the amount of damages hints at this more subtly.Behind the McFarlane approach, there can be discerned an anxiety to protect precious NHS resources in the face of an increasing 'compensation culture'. Whether such a phenomenon exists is questionable, 5 but in many ways this is academic, since what is perceived to be real (whether by the judiciary, the legislature, or the underground commuter) inescapably has real effects. 6 Most tangible among these are the NHS

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Wrongful existence claims: the 'McFarlane Approach', trends in policy and ethics, and the future

Troke¹

2007

Clinical Risk

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“…When we refer to the fetus as a disabled (rather than a defective) fetus, we personify the fetus via a term of pride in the disability community. (2017,80) Where abortion is concerned debates centre around several ethical arguments such as: fetal and father rights as subordinate to the mother's rights and personal autonomy; disability rights and fears around eugenics; at what stage of pregnancy abortions are carried out; the medical counselling offered to women pregnant with a disabled child; the sanctity of life; and, the fact that abortions on disabled children can be carried out up to full term (Sharp and Earl 2002;Pritchard 2005). The quest for women's rights and personal autonomy has led to the unnecessary deaths of innocent unborn children, probably half of whom were, or are, female.…”

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Tanni Grey-Thompson – ‘The one that got away’: a theological analysis of foeticide, infanticide and the deviant Paralympic success story

Braye

2017

Sport in Society

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In this essay, I apply a theological perspective to argue that the Paralympic Games, its athletes, and the media, unwittingly collude to demonstrate contempt towards the killing of disabled children, whilst claiming that disability equality has been improved or achieved. I argue that British Paralympic athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson was destined to succeed because many of her potential competitors were denied the right to life. British newspapers and publicly available figures related to the killing of disabled children in the United Kingdom are contrasted against the positive narrative about disabled people promoted by the International Paralympic Committee. I make reference to Christian bio-medical ethics to draw attention to the medical profession's negative attitudes towards disabled people in the early 1900s, which provided execution techniques for the Nazi holocaust. I conclude by contending that the genocide of disabled children continues unabated despite the positive and dominant discourse attached to the Paralympic Games.

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“…In addition, nurses must also consider what factors may influence not only the patient’s decision of engaging in prenatal testing but also the choices they make in the wake of a positive result. Pritchard (2005) suggests that women who undergo prenatal testing are subjected to a negative view of impairment from the experts that they interact with and trust during this time (i.e. genetic counsellors).…”

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Reversing Kristeva’s first instance of abjection: the formation of self reconsidered

McCabe

Holmes

2011

Nursing Inquiry

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Psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva defines the theoretical concept of abjection as an unconscious defence mechanism used to protect the self against threats to one's subjectivity. Kristeva suggests that the first instance of abjection in an individual's life occurs when the child abjects the mother. However, the instance of abjection addressed within this paper is the reverse of this: the abjection of the child, with a disability, by the parent, and more broadly society. Using the contemporary example of prenatal testing, the authors explore how parents of children with disabilities may be influenced in abjecting the child. The implications of abjection of the child are then used to explore normalization, routinization of care and the development of standardized care practices within health-care. Prenatal screening practices and standardized care permeate medical obstetric care and social discourses regarding pregnancy and childbirth, thereby affecting not only healthcare professionals but also parents in their position as consumers of health-care. In a time when the focus of health-care is increasingly placed on disease prevention and broader medical and social discourses glorify normalcy and consistency, the unconscious abjection of those that do not fit within these standards must be identified and addressed.

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Can there be such a thing as a ‘wrongful birth’?

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Wrongful existence claims: the 'McFarlane Approach', trends in policy and ethics, and the future

Wrongful existence claims: the 'McFarlane Approach', trends in policy and ethics, and the future

Tanni Grey-Thompson – ‘The one that got away’: a theological analysis of foeticide, infanticide and the deviant Paralympic success story

Reversing Kristeva’s first instance of abjection: the formation of self reconsidered

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