The ethics of prenatal diagnosis and genetic counselling.
Doctors are often censured for the aborting of severely abnormal fetuses after prenatal diagnosis. But, where parents have been left in ignorance and have produced an abnormal child, there has been a very strong sense of injustice. The moral responsibility must ultimately rest with the parents, who must have control of their own health and that of their families.
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University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London.
D000028:Abortion, Induced; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005260:Female; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D013789:Thalassemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics