 The Expressivist Argument  This argument holds that prenatal testing, particularly as linked with selective abortion, has expressive meaning for everyone with that condition. Abby Lippman writes: “That the birth of certain babies should be avoided is announced merely by making testing available” (1994, 24). If we abort a fetus on the basis of a single trait, this symbolically suggests that not only this fetus's life but the life of anyone who has this trait is not worth living or preserving. Prenatal genetic testing, as disability rights critics suggest, thus perpetuates and reinforces denigrating social attitudes toward persons with disabilities (e.g. Saxton 2000). One might argue that any use of prenatal testing for a condition followed by abortion expressively devalues that condition. Or, one might argue that it is the routinization of testing—the practice of checking for a condition and making abortion available as a ‘normal’ part of ‘responsible’ prenatal care—is what has expressive devaluing significance.