Testing for Down Syndrome in Catholic Health Care: Complicity in Eugenic Abortion
| Autor: | James G. Linn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
0303 health sciences
medicine.medical_specialty 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Health Policy 030305 genetics & heredity Prenatal diagnosis Prenatal care Bioethics Abortion Catholic social teaching 03 medical and health sciences Philosophy 0302 clinical medicine Commentaries Family medicine Health care Eugenics medicine Complicity business |
| Zdroj: | Linacre Q |
| ISSN: | 2050-8549 0024-3639 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0024363919895366 |
| Popis: | Catholic healthcare institutions, physicians, and midwives routinely employ testing for Down syndrome as a part of prenatal care. This testing is an essential part of eugenic abortion and often leads to it. Catholic teaching clearly forbids such testing when undertaken with abortive intent if the baby has Down syndrome or other abnormalities. This article discusses (1) the evolution of prenatal genetic testing and abortion, (2) how this testing may involve complicity in eugenic abortion, and (3) offers proposals to avoid and end Catholic healthcare’s cooperation with this evil. Summary: This article discusses why prenatal genetic testing as practiced in many Catholic healthcare institutions is ethically problematic and then proposes solutions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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