Roundtable conversation exploring how new disability rights narratives can challenge uses of genetic and reproductive technologies based in ingrained ableism, and promote futures in which disabled people flourish. Speakers are Silvia Yee (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund), Larkin Taylor-Parker (Autistic Self Advocacy Network), and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University) and Rebecca Cokley (Ford Foundation) moderates. 

Alice Wong, founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project delivers a presentation for Medicine X explaining that human genome modification raises questions that have profound implications for people with disabilities, such as, “Who has the power to decide which mutations warrant human gene editing and which are tolerable?”