prenatal test
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prenatal
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌpriːˈneɪ.təl/us/ˌpriːˈneɪ.t̬əl/
relating to the medical care given to pregnant women before their babies ...
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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Use of decision analysis to evaluate patients' choices of diagnosticprenataltest.
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As prenatal testing became more widely available, the ethos of genetic counselling began to in-uence attitudes towards how decisions should be made.
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This argument is applicable to prenatal testing regardless of whether the fetus is a person.
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Therefore, pregnant women (who intend to give birth) are morally obliged to undergo prenatal testing to select against disabilities in their potential offspring.
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Therefore, prenatal tests to select against disabling traits are unjust.
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Prenatal testing to select against disabilities promotes the welfare of potential offspring.
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The public-policy process that has set current prenatal testing limits has been particularly difficult to discern.
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Prenatal testing to select against disabilities promotes the welfare of potential offspring if it does not involve disproportionate harm to others who are of equal moral weight.
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Female students were more often in favor of statements 7a and 8a affirming that prenatal testing for serious genetic diseases would be fair to the future child and socially responsible.
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Prenatal tests can tell whether their unborn child has the most common mutations.
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Many women who are distrustful of biomedicine will decline certain prenatal tests, citing their own bodily knowledge as more trustworthy than their doctors high-tech interpretations.
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Accurate dating of pregnancy is important, because it is used in calculating the results of various prenatal tests, (for example, in the triple test).
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