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After Feticide: Coping with Late-Term Abortion in Israel, Western Europe, and the United States

1999; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s096318019980406x

1469-2147

Michael L. Gross,

Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare

Although the abortion debate continues to simmer in many places, the general issue of a woman's right to an abortion, at least in the Western democracies, is largely settled. In its place, the question of late-term abortion begins to assume a prominence only recently attributed to abortion itself. The advent of sophisticated fetal screening techniques makes possible detection of potentially severe fetal anomalies that in many cases are detected only late in the pregnancy, resulting in the need for late-term abortion.