In 1995, China passed the Maternal and Infant Health Care La…
In 1995, China passed the Maternal and Infant Health Care Law which bans marriages between couples “with certain genetic diseases of a serious nature” unless they agree to sterilization or long-term contraception. The law also requires doctors to “advise” parents to abort if an abnormality is detected in the fetus. The state justifies this law as a measure to “shed some of the economic burden” of caring for disabled people. This justification is based on which of the following ethical theories?
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