Can Genetic Engineering remove the Tension of Disability?

Why then do people with disabilities there is a tension? Why would they not welcome the disappearance of the disability, in much the same way society at large has welcomed the disappearance of Smallpox. One of the reasons for this is the argument that any viewpoint relating to ‘curing’ a disability, assumes what is known as the medical model of disability, where a disability is viewed as an impairment of some kind, in an individual. This model has been subjected to criticism because it does not seem to parallel our societal understanding of what disability is. In addition, the medical model seems to have the view built into it that a disability is bad for the person who has it and that they would be, or would have been better off, if they did not have the disability. It is this view that Reindal suggests motivates some of society’s reactions to disability. One consequence of it is that resources are directed into impairment-related research and intervention, whereas scant resources are channelled into social change for the inclusion of people with impairments. He is concerned that with increases in genetic interventions that advocates of the ‘curing’ ideal will argue that we cannot assume that society is obliged to undertake changing the world for disabled people so as to render them not disabled in all cases, rather than eliminating the impairment, especially where doing that is cheaper.