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

The Linacre Quarterly
James G Linn

Abstract

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.

References

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Nov 12, 2005·The New England Journal of Medicine·Fergal D MaloneUNKNOWN First- and Second-Trimester Evaluation of Risk (FASTER) Research Consortium
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Oct 19, 2011·Genetics in Medicine : Official Journal of the American College of Medical Genetics·Glenn E PalomakiJacob A Canick
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