{"id":9711,"date":"2019-09-29T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2020-08-02T17:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:50:18","slug":"is-it-ethical-for-deaf-parents-to-choose-to-have-deaf-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9711","title":{"rendered":"Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BioEdge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Michael Cook<a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:34570\/authors.aspx#Michael_Cook\">*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p> . . . There is a growing body of literature to support the right of deaf parents to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select for deaf children. Jacqueline Mae Wallis, a philosopher at the University of Bristol (UK), contends in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11019-019-09922-6\">Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy<\/a> that this is morally permissible. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/procedures\/eugenics003.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioEdge Michael Cook* . . . There is a growing body of literature to support the right of deaf parents to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select for deaf children. Jacqueline Mae Wallis, a philosopher at the University of Bristol (UK), contends in the journal Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy that this is morally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,3699,757],"tags":[3812],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethical-commentary","category-eugenics-genetics","category-united-kingdom","tag-deafness"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children? - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9711\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is it ethical for deaf parents to choose to have deaf children? - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BioEdge Michael Cook* . . . 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