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Genetic Exceptionalism & Legislative Pragmatism

1 Jan 2005

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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.

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PMID: 16225303
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0046

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