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Published on: November 8, 2018
How 'non-invasive' is non-invasive prenatal testing?
1Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia chanelle.warton@monash.edu.
Abstract:
The invasiveness of a medical intervention is considered to be morally important and can have a significant influence on acceptability and uptake. De Marco et al propose a novel account of the invasiveness of medical interventions that better reflects the common understanding of the term. Using the example of non-invasive prenatal testing, I develop this account and argue that comparisons should only occur between medical interventions of clinically and morally significant differences.
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