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Format: Hardback
Publisher: OUP India
Language: English
Dimensions: 22.00 X 3.00 X 15.00
Publisher Code: 9780199466658
Date Added: 2018-08-10
Search Category: International
Jurisdiction: International

Overview:

While the Indian legislation on prenatal tests, the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, prohibits the use of prenatal tests for sex-selection, it permits the use of these tests to pick out foetuses with disabilities. Further, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 permits the termination of such lives. The author questions the breach of rights of persons with disabilities by studying the contradiction that exists between disability-selective abortion and disability rights. Analysing the legitimacy of an automatic decision to abort a foetus with disability, this book questions the unproblematic perception towards disability-selective abortions, but without entering the realm of a woman's right to take decisions about her body. While the Indian legislation on prenatal tests, the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, prohibits the use of prenatal tests for sex-selection, it permits the use of these tests to pick out foetuses with disabilities. Further, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 permits the termination of such lives. The author questions the breach of rights of persons with disabilities by studying the contradiction that exists between disability-selective abortion and disability rights. Analysing the legitimacy of an automatic decision to abort a foetus with disability, this book questions the unproblematic perception towards disability-selective abortions, but without entering the realm of a woman's right to take decisions about her body. While the Indian legislation on prenatal tests, the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, prohibits the use of prenatal tests for sex-selection, it permits the use of these tests to pick out foetuses with disabilities. Further, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 permits the termination of such lives. The author questions the breach of rights of persons with disabilities by studying the contradiction that exists between disability-selective abortion and disability rights. Analysing the legitimacy of an automatic decision to abort a foetus with disability, this book questions the unproblematic perception towards disability-selective abortions, but without entering the realm of a woman's right to take decisions about her body.
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Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Statutes Table of Treaties Table of Cases Introduction 1. The Interplay between Natural and Social Selection 2. Competing Discourses on Value and Quality of Human Life 3. Varied Perspectives on Sex- and Disability-selective Abortions 4. Perfection at the Cost of Excellence: Implications of Disability-selective Abortions 5. The Equality-Non-discrimination Gaze on the Right to Life 6. Disability-selective Abortions in National and International Law 7. Deliberated Decisions, Not Automated Response: The New Discourse on Disability-selective Abortions Bibliography Index
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