Name(s):
Misuse of prenatal diagnosis
Proliferation of foetal diagnosis
Hazardous amniocentesis
Risks with CVS testing
Claim
Prenatal diagnosis, which presents no moral objections if carried out in order to identify the medical treatment which may be needed by the child in the womb, all too often becomes an opportunity for proposing and procuring an abortion. This is eugenic abortion, justified in public opinion on the basis of a mentality-mistakenly held to be consistent with the demands of "therapeutic interventions"-which accepts life only under certain conditions and rejects it when it is affected by any limitation, handicap or illness. (Papal Encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, 25 March 1995).