Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion

Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion

Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion: a challenge to practice and policy.

Professionals should reexamine negative assumptions about the quality of life with prenatally detectable impairments and should reform clinical practice and public policy to improve informed decision making and genuine reproductive choice. Current data on children and families affected by disabilities indicate that disability does not preclude a satisfying life. Many problems attributed to the ...

Ethical issues in prenatal diagnosis and therapeutic abortion in Iran

Prenatal Diagnosis (PND) is one of the most controversial and challenging issues in the modern medicine around the world. Different countries have a various approaches toward this intricate issue. Crosslinking between religion and medicine or health is explicit in this field; so various aspects should be considered in the policy and compliment of the rules for PND. In many cases, the most contr...

Paradoxes of abortion and prenatal injury.

Many people who believe that abortion may often be justified by appeal to the pregnant woman’s interests also believe that a woman’s infliction of significant but nonlethal injury on her fetus can seldom be justified by appeal to her interests. Yet the second of these beliefs can seem to cast doubt on the first. For the view that the infliction of prenatal injury is seriously morally objectiona...

Prenatal diagnosis and female abortion: a case study in medical law and ethics.

Alarm over the prospect that prenatal diagnostic techniques, which permit identification of fetal sex and facilitate abortion of healthy but unwanted female fetuses has led some to urge their outright prohibition. This article argues against that response. Prenatal diagnosis permits timely action to preserve and enhance the life and health of fetuses otherwise endangered, and, by offering assur...