Abstract In a project The Hastings Center is now running on the future of prenatal testing, we
are encountering clear examples, both in established law and in the practices of individual …

Since the 1970s, prenatal testing has been integrated into many health care systems on the
basis of two competing and largely irreconcilable rationales. The reproductive autonomy …

For more than 2 decades, some supporters of reproductive choice have contended that the
manner in which prenatal testing is typically offered to pregnant women, and positive results …

The issue of prenatal testing and selective abortion has never received open public
appraisal. This is somewhat regrettable. The interest in this area, however, is rapidly …

As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing
is a logical extension of good prenatal care—it helps parents have healthy babies. But …

ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON rTLealth care providers are usually asked to de tect diseases in
order to protect previously healthy individuals from becoming ill and to cure those who have …

Professionals should reexamine negative assumptions about the quality of life with
prenatally detectable impairments and should reform clinical practice and public policy to …

Prenatal screening, consisting of maternal serum screening and nuchal translucency
screening, is on the verge of expansion, both by being offered to more pregnant women and …

Prenatal genetic testing is becoming available for an increasingly broad set of diseases, and
it is only a matter of time before parents can choose to test for hundreds, if not thousands, of …

Many people object to preimplantation or prenatal screening for disability on the grounds
that it is discriminatory, has pernicious effects on the lives of existing disabled people …