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The genetics and abortion issue is an extension of the abortion debate and the disability rights movement.Since the advent of forms of prenatal diagnosis, such as amniocentesis and ultrasound, it has become possible to detect the presence of congenital disorders in the fetus before birth.
During a pregnancy, prenatal genetic screening and diagnostic testing can determine whether a fetus is healthy, or whether it has certain genetic disorders or anomalies. Health care providers can ...
A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a challenge to an Arizona law banning abortions from being performed solely because the fetus has a genetic abnormality. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S ...
Routine genetic testing indicated Vincen-Brown’s baby likely had a chromosomal abnormality that would almost certainly be fatal, the 31-year-old Kuna woman told the Idaho Statesman in an ...
Medical reasons for inducing or performing an abortion are usually due to concerns about fetal viability or disability. These reasons include chromosomal and genetic abnormalities, [6] structural abnormalities, [7] and fetal reduction. [8] The medical reasons may also be about the ability of the mother to survive the pregnancy without injury.
In a case of the second type, the woman seeks advice concerning the health and bodily integrity of her fetus (see genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis), and decides to undergo an abortion after being told that the fetus is deformed or disabled. Here, too, it is eventually realized that the information was wrong.
In North Carolina, more obstetrics patients of Dr. Clayton Alfonso and his colleagues are relying on early genetic screenings that don’t provide a firm diagnosis. New state abortion restrictions ...
Individuals and couples who seek carrier screening are aware of test results or genetic disease in ancestors or living family members. Prenatal testing seeks to determine whether the fetus has inherited two defective copies, one from each parent. In prenatal testing, there is generally greater information about family history and the mutations ...