Case Study: The Morality Of Screening Deaf Children

The ethical issue that I feel everyone should be aware of states the morality of parents using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to achieve the same disability that they have. Parents use that process to select an embryo of a disability or a disease to acquire the same characteristic as the parents. In the case study Causing Deaf Children, a lesbian couple chose a sperm donor that was deaf to ensure that their child would also be deaf like they are. This is an ethical problem because most people would disagree that people should not create “designer babies,” and that babies should be born without any tests being done to see if they have a disability or to create a human just like the parents or family. There are even cases where people screen to see if they can choose what embryo is most likely to be disabled. …show more content…
I have chose Jeff McMahan’s article The Morality of Screening for Disability because he goes into details for why could be permissible for parents to use PGD, and all the objections as to why or why not it is wrong to screen for disabilities, and the discrimination that is holds for human diversity. McMahan states, “It is wrong for people to try to avoid having a disabled child and to have a non-disabled child instead.” His argument is centered on the objections him or others might have against using tests or techniques in order to see if they can get or prevent a disabled