It’s not Discrimination, I Just Want a Healthy Baby... Ethics of Disability-Selective Abortion

In many countries, including Canada, pregnant women can have access to prenatal screening in order to determine the chances a baby will be born with abirth defect. If a life-threatening condition such as anencephaly is detected, a woman might choose to terminate the pregnancy, but in the case of a non-lethal disability, such as Down syndrome, is it still ethical to choose abortion? By comparing a utilitarian and an ethical relativistic analysis of the scenario of a desired pregnancy, and considering the fetus as a moral being, I will conclude that it is morally wrong to end the pregnancy.