Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.
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Professor Katie Watson joins Ethics Talk to discuss what clinicians need to know about changes to the post-June 2022 legal, ethical, and clinical landscape of abortion care in the US.
Supporters of reproductive choice believe that women receive inadequate information about prenatal testing—often after some testing has already been done.
Although parents may someday have the ability to enhance the complex physical and mental traits of their offspring, such genetic enhancements raise a number of difficult ethical questions.