Exercise 2.11.1

PHI332 : The Class : Argument ID : Rhetorical Questions : Exercise 2.11.1

Exercise 2.11.1

Rewrite the following passage, changing rhetorical questions into declarative statements.

By contrast with the improvements of the past 15 years in education and employment for disabled people, prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion communicate that disability is so terrible it warrants not being alive. As prenatal diagnosis becomes more widespread, as the number of conditions that can be screened for increase, women fill be forced to decide whether or not they want to carry their pregnancies to term knowing that their children are predisposed to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or depression. As a society, do we wish to send the message to all such people now living that there should be "no more of your kind" in the future? If we use the technological solution of prenatal diagnosis to eliminate such people, what will become of our attitudes and practices toward any of those odd people who were missed by the technology and happened to be born? (p. 386-7).

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