Is the current routine use of PGD in public healthcare services to select against severe genetic diseases like anencephaly, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis and Down’s syndrome morally acceptable? In ...
Recurrent miscarriage or fetal loss syndrome (also known as fetal wastage syndrome) is characterized by recurrent spontaneous abortion. There are many syndromes associated with recurrent fetal ...
A stillborn male child with anencephaly and multiple malformations was found to have the karyotype 46,XY,r(13) (p11q21.1). The breakpoint at 13q21.1, determined by high resolution banding, is the most ...
Traci L. Powell, MSN, NNP; Leslie Parker, PhD, NNP-BC; Cynthia F. Dedrick, PhD, NNP; Christina M. Barrera, MSN, NNP; Dawn Di Salvo, MSN, NNP, CLC; Felicia Erdman, MSN ...
Many people with cephalic disorders live relatively normal lives. But some cephalic disorders are so severe that a baby will die within weeks or months of birth. Anencephaly. This condition happens ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ruled against El Salvador for barring a woman from getting an abortion, despite her life being at risk and her fetus being unviable. It ordered ...
In 1994, Maureen Griffin and her then-husband, a captain in the Air National Guard, ended her pregnancy after learning their baby had anencephaly, a fatal birth defect. They found out the military ...