 Adrienne Asch (2000) responds that one cannot relevantly compare the property of being a fourth child to the property of having a specific disabling trait, because the latter is an inherent rather than a relational property of the child. Hence to abort on the basis of the disabling trait is to reject that kind of person in a different and stronger way. But Asch's response seems to push against one of the main points of the social model of disability, which she otherwise defends: the view that disabilities are also relational rather than inherent properties. More generally, the force of the expressivist objection may rely on a view of disabling traits as identity constituting, thereby endorsing an essentialist understanding of disability (Edwards 2004). For many, it seems possible to decide against bearing a child who has a property that in context will make that child more difficult to raise (whether it is deafness, a chromosomal disorder, or fourth-childness), without devaluing all people with that property in any decontextualized way. Notice that this response does not combat the idea that routinization is expressively devaluing of some lives, even if it convinces us that individual uses of the technology are not.