“ Waiting with Gabriel ”

Kuebelbeck, Amy

doi:10.1016/j.cppeds.2010.10.013

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“…Not all grief is pathological, and moreover, there is simply no evidence that either 'healthy' or pathological grief is likely to be reduced by abortion, as opposed to carrying the baby until birth or natural death. On the contrary, such evidence as there goes the other way: while responses to the 'perinatal hospice' approach on the part of parents are overwhelmingly positive, 31 abortion for foetal anomaly is associated not only with devastating mental suffering but also with some very persistent psychological sequelae. An Australian author sums up the evidence thus in 2012:…”

Section: Abortion As Maternal Treatmentmentioning

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Abortion for life-limiting foetal anomaly: Beneficial when and for whom?

Watt¹

2016

Clinical Ethics

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Abortion for life-limiting foetal anomaly is often an intensely painful choice for the parents; though widely offered and supported, it is surprisingly difficult to defend in ethical terms. Abortion on this ground is sometimes defended as foetal euthanasia but has features which sharply differentiate it from standard non-voluntary euthanasia, not least the fact that any suffering otherwise anticipated for the child may be neither severe nor prolonged. Such abortions may be said to reduce suffering for the family including siblings-a consideration rarely stated so explicitly in defences of postnatal euthanasia-or for the woman who must in any case face the eventual loss of her baby, and for whom the abortion is seen as therapeutic in minimising pain. Finally, the abortion may be said to constitute the cessation of morally optional life support on the part of the woman, and/or to be a 'social' choice she is entitled to make, whether or not this in fact promotes her interests or those of her child. These defences need honest exploration: the intense parental suffering caused by the choice to end an often much-wanted pregnancy should not preclude but rather encourage the question whether this choice can indeed be ethically proposed to couples, especially compared with the neonatal palliative care ('perinatal hospice') approach so well received by parents who experience it.

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Section: Abortion As Maternal Treatmentmentioning

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Abortion for life-limiting foetal anomaly: Beneficial when and for whom?

Watt¹

2016

Clinical Ethics

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“…For example, Amy Keubelbeck writes about the experience of having a fetus diagnosed prenatally with hypoplastic left heart syndrome [1].…”

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Does Data Shape Moral Decision? Or Do Values Shape the Data?

Lantos¹

2013

Current Pediatric Reviews

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This paper examines the differences between different countries in policies regarding babies born at the borderline of viability. Such differences clearly exist. It is unclear whether they exist, in such an explicit way, for other populations of patients. Differences seem to reflect both the unique cultural milieu of different countries and also the unique moral status of the peri-viable baby. Similar differences exist regarding the moral status of the fetus. Such differences are likely to increase as fetal medicine develops, and the line between intrauterine and extrauterine life becomes less distincts.

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Care of the Family and Social Aspects of Care

Hill

Sarah²

2019

Philosophy and Medicine

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“ Waiting with Gabriel ”

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Abortion for life-limiting foetal anomaly: Beneficial when and for whom?

Abortion for life-limiting foetal anomaly: Beneficial when and for whom?

Does Data Shape Moral Decision? Or Do Values Shape the Data?

Care of the Family and Social Aspects of Care

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