Tag: Maternal-Fetal Conflict
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Does the provider have an ethical obligation to intervene on behalf of the fetus as a patient?
Case Study #: Maternal-Fetal Conflict Pregnancy is a unique circumstance in medical ethics because of the absolute requirement to access the fetus only through intervention on the pregnant woman. Increasingly, as medical advances have offered the promise of therapy to the fetus, fetal interests have been considered separately from maternal interests by clinicians, policy makers,…