Choosing Deafness? : A Liberal Exploration of the Legal Prohibition on Selection For Disability in England and Wales

Williams, Nicola Jane (2018) Choosing Deafness? : A Liberal Exploration of the Legal Prohibition on Selection For Disability in England and Wales. Contemporary Issues in Law, 14 (4). 325–348.

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Abstract

This paper concerns the insertion into English and Welsh law of a prohibition on selection for disability in one’s offspring for social reasons via the use of assisted reproductive technologies. It explores the changes in law that have occurred since the 2008 HFEA Act and subjects to philosophical scrutiny, from a liberal perspective of the limits of law, the reasons that have been given within legal and policy documents for its insertion.