ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the different kinds of preferences one might show with respect to having a disabled child in the UK. The United Kingdom Human Fertilization and Embryology Act complicates the possibility space for preferences about disabled children, by requiring that preference is always given to fetuses not known to have an abnormality over fetuses with some abnormality. Views on having disabled children can vary from acceptance (as distinct from preference), the preference not to have a preference, or active preference for disabled children. Despite the breadth of the complicated attitudes that one may have, the legislation essentially makes acceptance or the desire not to have a preference impossible.
