Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate.

Journal article

Abortion law reform focuses on early abortion. Women wanting to have a family who have a fetal abnormality detected later in pregnancy are neglected in the debate and harmed by the consequences of current legal uncertainty. Unclear abortion laws compromise: the quality of prenatal testing; management when an abnormality is found; and patient care, through obstetricians' fears of legal repercussions. Women carrying a fetus with an abnormality are being denied abortion, even when the abnormalit...

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Authors: de Crespigny, L; Savulescu, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
• Journal: Medical journal of Australia
• Volume: 188
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 100-103
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• EISSN: 1326-5377
• ISSN: 0025-729X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; abortion; Attitude of Health Personnel; Prenatal Diagnosis; Obstetrics; Abortion, Induced; Hospitals, Religious; Pregnancy; Australia; Congenital Abnormalities; Humans; Politics; Health Services Accessibility
• Subjects: Ethics of the biosciences; Ethics (Moral philosophy); Practical ethics; Ethics and communication in health care