The article analyzes the opinion presented by Adrienne Asch in "Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion" in this issue of Physis. We begin by discussing the author's position on the discriminatory nature of selective abortion, based on the quality of her argumentative rhetoric. We then proceed to review her position in light of Brazil's socio-cultural reality as a peripheral country which is characterized (as compared to the United States) as having restrictive legislation in relation to abortion, incipient organized political mobilization by people with disabilities, and a distinct history of eugenic doctrines and practices.
Selective abortion; disability; prenatal diagnosis