title: Reproductive liberty, disease and disability.
abstract: There are many arguments from many sides, which purport to give reasons for limiting access to reproductive technologies and to gene-based reproductive procedures. There is one reason to reject them all, and that is that they do not point to dangers or harms of sufficient seriousness, probability or proximity to justify the limitation on human freedom that they require. This paper shows why this is so and argues that reproductive liberty must also include the liberty to select against disability both for moral and for libertarian reasons.
authors.affiliation: CSEP/IMLAB, School of Law, Williamson Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. john.m.harris@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D024861:Genetic Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy; D019836:Preimplantation Diagnosis / Q000941:ethics*; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000941:ethics*