The California Prenatal Screening Program: "options and choices" not "coercion and eugenics"

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 711-713

  Flessel, Monica C ^a   Lorey, Fred W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

California Prenatal Screening Program; Down syndrome; patient choice; prenatal diagnosis; trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DOWN SYNDROME; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; UNITED STATES;

COERCION; DOWN SYNDROME; EUGENICS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 80051794049     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GIM.0b013e3182272e25     Document Type: Review

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