Chervenak Frank A, McCullough Laurence B, Chasen Stephen T
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Semin Perinatol. 2005 Aug;29(4):277-9. doi: 10.1053/j.semperi.2005.05.012.
We identify the clinical implications of the ethics of informed consent for risk assessment for trisomy 21.
Based on the ethics of informed consent, we find that routinely offering first-trimester risk assessment in centers qualified to provide it is ethically obligatory, and routinely withholding the results of first-trimester risk assessment is ethically unjustified.
The ethics of informed consent is an essential dimension of first-trimester risk assessment for trisomy 21.