Lecture: Recruiting for reproductive choices

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Title: Recruiting for reproductive choices
Description: Prenatal testing has become a routine practice of antenatal care. According to international standards informed consent is a requirement prior to testing. However, due to the introduction of non-invasive screening (nuchal translucency measurement and the combined maternal blood test), this arrangement is undermined in some important ways. There is a tendency that counselling starts not before the first screening, but only if the results are conspicuous. In Austria antenatal care is organised in a comprehensive programme that is mandatory for all pregnant women. The aim of this programme is to secure the wellbeing of both the mother and her child. We argue that because of the contextualisation of non-invasive screening into the routine antenatal care it is difficult for pregnant women to distinguish between mandatory and elective examinations of antenatal care. This is especially relevant for the quality of informed consent that can be achieved in prenatal screening and subsequent diagnostic testing of the foetus. The presented case addresses recruiting processes for prenatal testing and subsequent reproductive choices. We will present data which show how non-invasive screening has significantly changed prenatal testing in Austria. From 2002 on there is a sharp increase in diagnosed cases per tested pregnant woman. The current abortion rate of Down’s syndrome foetuses is about 94%. The remaining 6% include those who screened false-negative, decided against screening or testing, and those who decided not to terminate the pregnancy.
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Type: Poster presentation
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Event: "European Meeting on Psychosocial Aspects of Genetics 2008 (in conjunction with the European Human Genetics Conference 2008)" (Barcelona, Spain)
Date: 01.06.2008
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Participants
Wilhelm Berger
Wilhelm.Berger@aau.at
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Bernhard Wieser
Bernhard.Wieser@aau.at
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Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
  Institut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung
B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
   andrea.lassnig@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/sts/
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B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
AT - 9020  Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

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  • 5912 - Social sciences (interdisciplinary)
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