RT Article
T1 Disabled Bodies on Earth and in Heaven: Eschatology and the Ethics of Selective Abortion
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 49
IS 2
SP 358
OP 380
A1 Kamitsuka, Margaret D.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1767697295
AB A vigorous ethical debate is underway about disability rights and selective abortion. One prodisability group criticizes the ableism of abortion based on prenatal screening. Another group supports legalized abortion but harbors serious concerns about disability bias. This essay moves the debate forward by reflecting on the ethics of selective abortion from a particular theological perspective: eschatology. I critically examine the claim that selective abortion contradicts the principle of Samaritan hospitality and the claim that envisioning disabled people in heaven means that selective abortion is an illegitimate use of women’s moral agency. This essay proposes a view of the resurrection using what philosopher call emergence theory, which I argue is prodisability because it conceptualizes how the bodies of beings affected with a disability who die in utero might attain heaven. I also present a view of divine providence that is supportive of women’s self-determination and self-trust in reproductive issues, including selective abortion.
K1 Moral Agency
K1 Emergence
K1 Resurrection
K1 Disability
K1 selective abortion
DO 10.1111/jore.12355