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Ethical implications for early pregnancy of the fetus as patient: a basic ethical concept in fetal medicine
F A Chervenak1, L B McCullough
1Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, NY 10021, USA.
Early Pregnancy : Biology and Medicine : the Official Journal of the Society for the Investigation of Early Pregnancy
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
The viable fetus is a patient. The previable fetus, including the in vitro embryo and the near-viable fetus, is a patient solely as a function of the exercise of the woman's autonomy. Directive counseling of the pregnant woman for fetal benefit is appropriate only when the fetus is a patient and must take account of the presence and severity of anomalies, extreme prematurity and beneficence-based and autonomy-based obligations to the pregnant woman.
Keywords:
Genetics and Reproduction