[CRISPR has] been getting plenty of press. And yet, as someone who tries to stay up to date constantly with what’s trending in the disability social media scene, it has seemed to me that CRISPR has been more or less absent.
Why aren’t people in the disability community talking more about this?
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[W]hen it comes to CRISPR for human reproduction, disability is at the center of it all…So here are five reasons why…we need the perspectives of people with disabilities weighing in on this debate[:] [Like it or not, CRISPR] brings up questions of what we should and shouldn’t value in future generations.…
Selling the need for the cutting edge technology comes on the backs of people with disabilities, so science policy and debates become one more place where the tired trope of disability as “the worst” thrives.
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When cures and the end of disability are always cast as “just around the corner,” it continues to make it harder to fight for what we need today.
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