Testing for Down Syndrome in Catholic Health Care: Complicity in Eugenic Abortion

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作者：
Linn, James G. [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Med Coll Wisconsin, Obstet & Gynecol, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA
[2] Milwaukee Guild Catholic Med Assoc, Milwaukee, WI USA
来源：
LINACRE QUARTERLY | 2020年 / 87卷 / 03期
关键词：
Abortion; Bioethics; Catholic identity in health care; Catholic social teaching; Cooperation with evil; Down syndrome; Ethics; Obstetrical care; Prenatal diagnosis; Prenatal genetics; genetic testing in pregnancy; PRENATAL-DIAGNOSIS; 1ST-TRIMESTER; BIRTH;
D O I：
10.1177/0024363919895366
中图分类号：
R-052 [医学伦理学];
学科分类号：
0101 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
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. This article discusses why Prenatal genetic testing as practiced in many Catholic healthcare institutions is ethically problematic and then proposes solutions.
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