ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the people need to acknowledge how practices of prenatal screening are technologies of government. As prenatal screening has become obstetrical practice in many countries, questions have been raised concerning how this will affect attitudes towards people living with disabilities and what the world will lose when certain syndromes are disappearing. Prenatal diagnosis starts with an initial screening that provides a probability calculation measuring the likelihood of a set of medically defined conditions. The chapter explores how resistance is discursively pre-structured: with the 'ethicisation' of prenatal testing follows an 'ethicised' resistance, and thereby a framework of ethics comes to compose the main battlefield over prenatal diagnosis. Thinking through the complexities of vulnerability, representation, and the ethics of critique may serve as a starting point to make space for possible worlds in which the distinctions are redundant.
