A lot of things that cause disabilities are the result of prenatal insults to the fetus--chemical exposures, unnecessary stresses, things we don't know about yet. I believe people in the future will not choose to continue allowing those things to happen, because not all of the suffering these problems cause can be alleviated by assistive technology.
Well, this is where I think it gets into a tricky area. Because it assumes that this technology and knowledge will be 100% at preventing certain things - or that access to this technology/medicine/knowledge will be universally accessible to all people. That certainly isn't the case here on present day Earth.
And this gets into the question of what parents-to-be would do if they didn't have access to these things or if they failed.
I can't think - off the top of my head - of any technologies or medicines we have right now that are always 100% effective for EVERY single person in EVERY single instance. I don't see why this wouldn't be the case in the future - and I think in the case of SF literature, it would be good to explore this area and to think about this.
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Well, this is where I think it gets into a tricky area. Because it assumes that this technology and knowledge will be 100% at preventing certain things - or that access to this technology/medicine/knowledge will be universally accessible to all people. That certainly isn't the case here on present day Earth.
And this gets into the question of what parents-to-be would do if they didn't have access to these things or if they failed.
I can't think - off the top of my head - of any technologies or medicines we have right now that are always 100% effective for EVERY single person in EVERY single instance. I don't see why this wouldn't be the case in the future - and I think in the case of SF literature, it would be good to explore this area and to think about this.