PHIL 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fetus
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Bailey"s response was that her decision to have an abortion should she discover that the fetus has a disease reflects on concern for her child and she only wants the child to have the best body they can have. Leon: points out that if there was a general practice of aborting pregnancy to avoid giving birth to children with certain disabilities, then this would be evident pretty quickly because the population of people with disabilities will go down. He thinks that it will be pretty likely that overtime, it would be natural to people to come to think that people with these disabilities are less worthy. She says there"s plenty of things the social group can do to make it clear that we respect and value these disabled people. This is in fact what we should be doing rather than restricting abortions. Bailey says this at the end of her piece:
