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Original Research
Psychological aspects of therapeutic abortion after early prenatal diagnosis
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Institute of Psychology, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
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IV Clinic of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University of Rome, “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 1991, 18(3), 169–173;
Published: 10 September 1991
Abstract
The early discovery of a fetal pathology creates a "crisis" situation fraught with psychic problems for the couple who must live through it. The Authors observed a group of patients in the second trimester of pregnancy. They had all requested therapeutic abortion since serious malformation of the fetus had been confirmed. By means of a questionnaire constructed for the purpose, certain characteristics of fetal malformation and of pregnancy were evidenced, as well as the way these were experienced by the patients. The immediate and delayed reactions to the diagnosis of malformation were also studied, as was the experience lived when faced with the choice of abortion.