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- Title
Prenatal Screening and Pregnant Women's Attitudes toward the Abortion of Defective Fetuses.
- Authors
Faden, Ruth R.; Chwalow, A. Judith; Quaid, Kimberly; Chase, Gary A.; Lopes, Cheryl; Leonard, Claire O.; Holtzman, Neil A.
- Abstract
Abstract: We studied the attitudes of 490 pregnant women toward the abortion of defective fetuses. Three hundred of these women were participating in u prenatal screening program for neural tube defects. Although theoretical accounts of the effects of behavior on attitude would suggest that participation in a screening program would affect abortion attitudes, evidence in support of such an association was weak. The overwhelming majority omen, regardless of whether they had participated in the screening program believed that women are justified in having an abortion in the face of fetal abnormality. There was a sharp increase in the number of screening program participants who said they would have an abortion when the probability of the fetus being affected with a neural tube defect rose from 95 per ¢ to 100 per ¢.
- Subjects
ABORTION; PREGNANT women; FETAL behavior; PRENATAL influences; FETAL abnormalities; NEURAL tube defects; ABORTION applicants; HUMAN behavior; MEDICAL screening; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1987, Vol 77, Issue 3, p288
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.77.3.288