Noninvasive Prenatal Testing: Implications for Muslim Communities

AJOB Empirical Bioethics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 94-105

  Haidar, Hazar ^a   Rispler Chaim, Vardit ^b   Hung, Anthony ^c   Chandrasekharan, Subhashini ^c   Ravitsky, Vardit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; ensoulment; fetal development; Islam; noninvasive prenatal testing; termination abortion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924404625     PISSN: 23294515     EISSN: 23294523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23294515.2014.993101     Document Type: Article

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