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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.
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus by Rayna Rapp is a book, published in 1999, about analysis of the social repercussions of prenatal genetic testing.Rapp combines the data she collected herself with historical context of amniocentesis and genetic counseling to argue that amniocentesis and those abortions following positive test results is a social decision as much as an individual one.
Genetic testing is often done as part of a genetic consultation and as of mid-2008 there were more than 1,200 clinically applicable genetic tests available. [23] Once a person decides to proceed with genetic testing, a medical geneticist, genetic counselor, primary care doctor, or specialist can order the test after obtaining informed consent .
North Carolina Children's Hospital (NCCH) is a pediatric acute care hospital located within UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The hospital has 158 beds. [ 25 ] It is affiliated with The University of North Carolina School of Medicine , and is a member of UNC Health.
One outcome has been the growing availability of elective genetic and genomic testing that are initiated by a patient but still ordered by a physician. [10] Additionally, elective genetic and genomic testing that does not require a physician's order called, direct-to-consumer genetic testing has recently entered the testing landscape. [11]
For the first time in its 50-plus-year history, the UNC System Board of Governors will be led by an officer team composed entirely of women.. The board, which oversees all of North Carolina’s ...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) [14] is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States .
UNC Health was created in 1998, when the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation that established the UNC Health Care System, bringing under one entity UNC Hospitals and the clinical programs of the UNC School of Medicine. [1]