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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Institu
 te for Health and Social Policy welcome Professor Christopher Kaposy for a
  presentation on prenatal screening and discrimination. His talk will be m
 oderated by Professor Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry.\n\nAbstract\n\nLiberal stat
 es have the goal of promoting the well-being of their citizens. They also 
 allow citizens the freedom to define for themselves what their well-being 
 consists in. On the one hand\, prenatal testing enables autonomous choice 
 in reproduction – a choice allowed in a liberal state. On the other hand\,
  the urge to screen out disabilities like Down syndrome is motivated by an
  atmosphere of bias against people with these conditions.\n\nI argue that 
 putatively autonomous choices are subject to influence and manipulation by
  institutional forces such as medicalization\, corporate advertising\, and
  other forms of persuasion. By deferring to the autonomous choices of its 
 citizens\, the liberal state can provide little counter-weight against dis
 criminatory attitudes expressed through prenatal testing. While corporate 
 and institutional forces construct choices and values\, the liberal state 
 leaves the field\, to the detriment of people with disabilities. This talk
  will consider possible lines of response for those of us opposed to ablei
 sm.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nChris Kaposy is an Associate Professor in the 
 Centre for Bioethics\, Faculty of Medicine\, Memorial University. He is au
 thor of Choosing Down Syndrome: Ethics and New Prenatal Testing Technologi
 es (2018) published by MIT Press. He is also editor of the Canadian bioeth
 ics blog ImpactEthics.ca.\n\nThis event is eligible for inclusion as 1.5 h
 ours of continuing legal education as reported by members of the Barreau d
 u Québec.\n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/85001496080
SUMMARY:Discrimination Through Prenatal Testing: The Role of the Liberal St
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