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• Winner of Honorable Mention, 2023 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association.

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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps would-be parents make better family planning choices. Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice challenges that assessment by exploring how NIPT can actually constrain pregnant women's options. Prospective parents must balance a complicated array of factors, including the familial, social, and financial support they can reasonably expect to receive if they choose to carry a disabled fetus to term and raise after birth, causing many pregnant women to

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Amber Knight is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include feminist theory, critical disability studies, beiothics, and contemporary political philosophy. Joshua P. Miller is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research and teaching interests include feminist political theory, applied ethics, and the history of political thought.

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