A common utilitarian argument in favor of abortion for fetal defects rests on some controversial assumptions about what counts as a life worth living. Yet critics of abortion for fetal defects are also in need of an argument free from controversial assumptions about the future child's quality of life. Christopher Kaczor (in: Kaczor (ed), The ethics of abortion: women's rights, human life, and the question of justice, Routledge, New York, 2011) has devised an analogy that apparently satisfies this condition. On close scrutiny, however, Kaczor's analogy is too weak to debunk the common-morality intuition that at least some abortions for fetal defects are morally permissible. The upshot of this discussion is that, on the moral permissibility of abortions for fetal defects, a case-by-case approach is to be preferred.

Abortion for fetal defects: two current arguments.

as information develops in genetics and counselling about it is needed. Rauch has anticipated the need for knowledge about basic genetic concepts and the challenge to the profession of meeting the need for genetic services. These will explode as genetic engineering develops treatment for disease. Genetic engineering presents the thoughtful person with social, economic, legal and moral dilemmas, currently discussed in the scientific and popular press. ’The short-circuiting of centuries of evolution, the unpredictability of the effects of transplants, and the potential of life once created to be self-perpetuating and uncontrollable have stirred an ethical controversy’ (Barton et al., 1984: 60). If genetic engineering develops as dramatically as its potential, demonstrated in agriculture and pharmacology, promises, personnel in medical and mental health settings, particularly social workers, will inevitably become genetic counsellors. There already exist important advances in knowledge of the inheritability of traits leading to both physical and mental illness. Support groups have developed to help parents of children with fatal genetic diseases for whom no current treatment exists. Although much current work involves recombinant DNA research in drug development, work on tests which can predict familial illness continue. Experiments that contemplate genetic manipulation of the foetus in utero or of the chromosome structure of the carrier of a genetic trait for deleterious disease may materialize and present

Social work and genetic services: legal roadblocks on the road less travelled

Wrongful birth: judicial reticence with an emerging tort--the negligent performance of genetic counseling--Berman v. Allan, 80 N.J. 421, 404 A.2d 8 (1979)

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Wrongful birth: judicial reticence with an emerging tort--the negligent performance of genetic counseling--Berman v. Allan, 80 N.J. 421, 404 A.2d 8 (1979)