Objectives This study was aimed at exploring the conflicts and ethical problems experienced
by professionals involved in prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy (TOP) in order …

Intensive treatment for newborns with trisomy 13 is controversial because of their lethal
prognosis. We report the better life prognosis of patients with trisomy 13 who received …

Trisomy 18 syndrome is a common autosomal aneuploidy chromosomal abnormality caused
by the presence of extra chromosome 18 that leads to malformations of various parts of the …

Objectives To study the clinical, emotional and moral difficulties that French midwives
encounter in the labor ward while performing termination of pregnancy (TOP) for fetal …

The medical procedure of 'feticide'has been used in clinical practice since the early 1990s in
the UK. The procedure constitutes a sensitive aspect of late termination of pregnancy (TOP) …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize practices and attitudes of maternal-fetal medicine
(MFM) and fetal care pediatric (FCP) specialists regarding fetal abnormalities. STUDY …

Background The introduction of prenatal screening for all pregnant women in D enmark in
2004 has lead to an increase in the number of late terminations of pregnancy after the 12th …

Objective Incidental findings in prenatal diagnostic testing may or may not have clear
prognostic significance for the phenotype. We studied experts' opinions of the benefit and …

Medical sociology has offered many accounts of the social context of the medical profession
at both macro-and micro-levels. However, a dominant critical trend in social thought means …

In the context of globalization, new technologies of pregnancy are spreading rapidly from
affluent to low-income countries. Yet, to date, there is very little research on the application of …