Thirdly, a form of selective reproductive medical technology that has transformed the performance of kinship is the freedom of prenatal screening. This selective reproductive method allows parents to choose whether they want desire to determine the sex or to diagnose any congenital diseases in the fetus. In this section, I uncover the positive outcomes of prenatal diagnosis, and I analyze the ethical dilemmas associated with decision making of continuing or terminating the pregnancy. As we move towards a more technological advanced world, we value the accessibility of technologies that aid us in any way, whether it being easier communication devices, faster transportation methods, or prenatal screening for congenital disease; they are all seen as …show more content…
Cystic Fibrosis or Down Syndrome), the future holds for technology to be able to identify new genes carriers such as alcoholism, homosexuality and depression (Robertson, 1994: 194). Procreation is now seen as subject to personal preference and choice in which the child is the embodiment of the act of choice (Strathern, 1994). The reproductive technological market presents itself as opening up to options, indicating a vision of a biology under control, of families free to find their own form. Unfortunately, another selective reproductive method that follows more often than not prenatal diagnosis, is abortion. The stopping of pregnancy through abortion suggests the handing over of authority to another human being who can choose whether a fetus lives or dies. Defending abortion, it could be said that prenatal diagnosis is set forth to avoid complicating the family's life and bringing a suffering child into the world (Weingarten, 2012). In the twentieth-century, the immergence of family law and policy have made legislations to become more regulated within the kinship sphere in relation to adoption, surrogacy, and prenatal