Potential Parents Argument Essay

As I rattle with the above questions; questions that I see relevant to potential parents, I struggle to find concrete answers. I am left with more questions than answers, or at least answers that are not morally questionable at best. As admitted even by the DRC, caring for a disabled person requires more of parents. Why the parent who didn’t sign up the for this additional responsibility be forced to bare such responsibility? Is it a question of right versus right? The pregnant women’s right to not reproduce, to terminate a pregnancy. The fetus’s right to life. An argument put forward by the DRC, Parent Attitude Argument provides some answers to the questions. The argument claims that using prenatal testing to opt against some traits indicates …show more content…
Or by coercing pregnant women into bringing to term an unwanted fetus? Again one would enter the tangled web of ethical and moral questions. However, the DRC approach is different as it attacks the often misinformation meted out to potential parents on raising a child with disability. DRC argues that prenatal testing is rooted in the ‘fantasy and fallacy that parents can guarantee or create perfection for their children,” and therefore are misled when they are informed that their potential child is ‘not perfect’. Of what importance is this, if a parent considers a perfect child merely possessing all faculties and not having abnormalities regardless of extremities? The problem lies in the potential parent limiting the potential child to just its disability trait- and not viewing the child as a whole. Potential parents often (by whatever influences) forget that with the disability trait comes other traits, which have the potential to be enjoyable and fulfill all or many of the longing desires of potential parents. Again, I refer to Dwight, I may not be able to enjoy playing football with him or have sophisticated conversations, but we still do have fun playing games that he is able to play and the experience is always