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Prenatal Testing and Disability: A Truce in the Culture Wars?
Author(s) -
Dresser Rebecca
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.0.0137
Subject(s) - legislation , law , alliance , politics , presidential system , democracy , political science , psychology
In politics and policy-making, many speakers claim a commitment to finding common ground with their adversaries, but in the end, partisanship tends to trump the collaborative commitment. In a rare exception, however, pro-choice, pro-life, and disability advocates joined to support a 2008 federal law called the Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Awareness Act. The law seeks to improve the quality of information that pregnant women and new parents receive about children with disabilities.