Feticide during second- and third-trimester termination of pregnancy: Opinions of health care professionals

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-97

  Dommergues, Marc ^a   Cahen, Françoise ^a   Garel, Micheline ^b   Mahieu Caputo, Dominique ^a   Dumez, Yves ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Abortion; Death; Ethics; Fetal pain; Feticide; Neonate; Prenatal diagnosis; Termination of pregnancy; Third trimester

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDWIFE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; OBSTETRICS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STRESS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0037275624     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068068     Document Type: Article

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