Burke Teresa Blankmeyer
Hastings Cent Rep. 2025 Mar;55(2):26-28. doi: 10.1002/hast.4980.
This commentary responds to Erik Magnusson's Hasting Center Report article "Disability, Relational Equality, and the Expressivist Objection." The commentary's author uses the setting of her classroom at Gallaudet University, the world's only bilingual American Sign Language and written English liberal education university serving deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students, to explore the expressivist objection in the context of her students' lived experience as deaf people. As Magnusson explains, the expressivist objection comprises two claims: that the provision or use of prenatal testing to select against having a child with a disability "expresses negative judgments about existing people with disabilities" and that the expression of such judgments wrongs these people. The commentary proposes the concern that solely focusing on the expressivist objection to prenatal diagnosis and testing can obscure other, related harms that deserve attention too.
这篇评论是对埃里克·马格努松发表在《海斯汀中心报告》上的文章《残疾、关系平等与表现主义异议》的回应。评论作者利用她在加劳德特大学课堂的场景——这是世界上唯一一所提供美国手语和书面英语双语通识教育的大学，服务于聋人、重听人和听力正常的学生——在她的学生作为聋人的生活经历背景下探讨表现主义异议。正如马格努松所解释的，表现主义异议包含两个主张：提供或使用产前检测来选择不生育残疾孩子“表达了对现有残疾人的负面评价”，以及这种评价的表达对这些人造成了伤害。该评论提出了这样一种担忧，即仅仅关注对产前诊断和检测的表现主义异议可能会掩盖其他同样值得关注的相关危害。
