Prenatal screening and diagnosis programs are generally legitimized as health services affirming reproductive autonomy and the right to make an informed decision. In addition, they promise healthy children, happy families and societies freed from at least one financial "burden". However, the normalization of these practices also has a number of widely discussed side effects: the affirmation of a certain type of decision "which life is (not) worth living", the resulting modeling of attitudes towards and readiness for social support of those suffering from genetic diseases, and the transformation of socially sanctioned notions of "responsible" motherhood and parenthood.
This book offers a discussion on these two faces of prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion, exploring especially the life of these practices in Bulgaria.
