title: [Antenatal diagnosis and ethical problems].
abstract: The fast development of techniques detecting diseases or malformations of the fetus during the 2nd third of pregnancy has led to a real evolution in our knowledge. We can recognize minor or major abnormalities, as well as many hereditary or acquired diseases. This revolution raises considerable ethical problems because, at the same time, our ability to receive and operate the children with malformations as early as birth is ever improving. And yet the mothers often ask for induced abortion. What are we supposed to do? What are the acceptable limits?
authors.affiliation: Clinique obstétricale Universitaire Baudelocque, Paris.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Papiernik
mesh_terms: D000032:Abortion, Therapeutic; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis
vernacular_title: Diagnostic anténatal et problèmes éthiques.