[Symposium "Prenatal diagnosis--clinical practice and counseling]

The growing demand for prenatal diagnosis appears to be making these technologies an increasingly normal part of care in pregnancy. Nevertheless, and in spite of an expanding lay literature on the subject, every expectant mother has an undiminished need for personal information and counselling by her physician. At a symposium staged by the Gynecological Clinic, St. Gall, on 1 April 1995 several experts highlighted the technical, ethical and psychological aspects of prenatal diagnosis as well as the practical problems involved in the counselling and care of women and couples in the prenatal situation.