Höhergradige Mehrlinge - ein klinisches und ethisches Problem der Reproduktionsmedizin**
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde
- Vol. 49 (03) , 225-233
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2008-1035743
Abstract
24 patients with high grade multiple pregnancy were admitted to the Department of Obstetrics of the Grosshadern Hospital of the University of Munich between 1984 and 1988. Aetiology, clinical findings and neonatal outcome are presented. With this data as background, the main part of the paper presents and discusses critically three methods of solving this difficult medical and psychosocial problem: 1. pervention, 2. abortion, and 3. foeticide. It is shown that in contrast to killing following prenatal diagnosis, foeticide in high grade multiple pregnancy is unselective. Since every new medical possibility will soon be demanded by society after suitable sociopsychological persuasion and inducement, it is practically an ethical imperative to rightaway prevent high grade multiple pregnancy from occurring.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Triplet Gestation: Maternal and Neonatal ImplicationsActa geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research, 1985