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Prenatal diagnosis of fetal abnormality: the decision to terminate the pregnancy and the psychological consequences

2002-11-01

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In the absence of any prenatal screening, some two percent of babies will be born with a structural anomaly; a further 1 in 700–800 will be born with Down's syndrome, with similar numbers having other chromosomal and serious genetic disorders. The prevalence of abnormalities in early pregnancy is higher because abnormal fetuses are more likely to miscarry than normal ones. A small number of women enter pregnancy a...

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Literature Corpus work: 183f74b7-d9d6-5bb8-99e7-4b4cd4bbd810
DOI: 10.1017/s0965539502000414

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