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Antenatal screening and its possible meaning from unborn baby's perspective

Metadata Updated: September 6, 2025

In recent decades antenatal screening has become one of the most routine procedure of pregnancy-follow up and the subject of hot debate in bioethics circles. In this paper the rationale behind doing antenatal screening and the actual and potential problems that it may cause will be discussed. The paper will examine the issue from the point of wiew of parents, health care professionals and, most importantly, the child-to-be. It will show how unthoughtfully antenatal screening is performed and how pregnancy is treated almost as a disease just since the emergence of antenatal screening. Genetic screening and ethical problems caused by the procedure will also be addressed and I will suggest that screening is more to do with the interests of others rather than those of the child-to be.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025

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Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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Metadata Created Date July 24, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025
Publisher National Institutes of Health
Maintainer
NIH
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Data First Published 2025-07-13
Data Last Modified 2025-09-06
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