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The relation between disability and Ethics is obviously not unproblematic. If disability is addressed at all in ethical debates, this is mainly in medical ethics and bioethics in the context of beginning and end of life decisions, where living a life with a disability is usually identified only with a poor quality of life. This is the main reason why disability activists accuse ethicists of supporting negative views regarding disability. This conflict is rooted in the co-development of neonatal intensive care and bioethics, which brings up general philosophical controversy about the moral status of human beings without or with limited personal capacities. In this contribution it is argued that the debate about the moral status on the one side shows indeed discriminating implications towards persons with disabilities and, on the other side, does not solve the ethical problems of neonatal intensive care. However, due to the influence of Disability Studies, the openness for the insight in the social construction of disability and the critical reflection of medical, deficit-based concepts of disabilities seems to grow within ethics.