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Genetic Exceptionalism & Legislative Pragmatism
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 35, Number 4, July-August 2005
- pp. 27-33
- 10.1353/hcr.2005.0046
- Article
- Additional Information
Can passing antidiscrimination laws ever be a bad idea? Yes, if broad policy reform is abandoned in favor of genetic-specific legislation. But in spite of its serious flaws, both in concept and in practice, genetic-specific legislation is sometimes worth passing anyway—sometimes a bad idea is reasonable.