I. Introduction: Hippocrates once said, “A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.” In the smartest of choices, a person’s own well-being and especially their child’s shouldn’t be taken for granted. Pregnancy as a whole is something that most women experience and women should do anything to keep their baby healthy. The wide-spread availability of amniocentesis is an unnecessary danger as it may result in the health risks to the mother, physical harm to the child, and emotional distress and rash decisions based upon unwanted and sometimes inaccurate results.
II. SUBTOPIC 1: Amniocentesis is an unnecessary danger as it may result in health
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Women who are in their 30s and 40s are at risk for lower metabolic weight, more health concerns, and the higher chances of health complications due to amniocentesis. Complications can happen during this being performed in the mother due to leakage of the amniotic fluid, uterine bleeding and infection, cramps, and rhesus sensitization. These complications are bad due to amniocentesis because leakage can cause miscarriage, death, and furthering issues due to taking away amniotic fluid. It needs to be considered how badly the couple wishes to conceive a child, because there can be an emotional toll if there is a dilemma where on the flip side a comparison of learning about fetal abnormalities. Amniocentesis is an unnecessary danger as it may result in miscarriage and emotional health problems for the mother. The amount of miscarriages and complications occur more in women who are above the age of 30. The risk is 20% from age 35-39, and it significantly increases by 30% being over the age of 40. Not only are there physical complications to the mother, but miscarriage outweighs all other concerns for many women. If amniocentesis wasn’t performed it could prevent complications with the mother, but it could also prevent miscarrying and emotional concerns. “If you experience a miscarriage after an …show more content…
A source of error in the lab can occur when the mother’s cells are mistaken for the baby’s cells (“Prenatal Testing”).
i. These inaccurate results can cause the procedure to be repeated weeks later which is very dangerous due to amniotic fluid loss. ii. This procedure could have been avoided if amniocentesis wasn’t performed in the first place.
b. The results can occur ambiguous and not knowing whether or not the child could have abnormalities that can make the results inconclusive.
c. This could cause rash decisions made by the mother and consideration of abortion due to any possible birth defects.
B. Rash decisions from amniocentesis can still occur with the mother even when accurate results are given.
1. Women experiencing abortion have an increased risk of developing cancer. Premature births actually double the risk for women to develop breast cancer (Lafranchi).
a. Although abortion can increase the risk of cancer, the pregnancy has to continue until it is deemed “safe” for the abortion to recover.
b. If the mother decides that she can’t continue the pregnancy due to the accurate results she may opt for an abortion increasing the risk of breast
Abortion, like any other medical procedure, carries some risks. When one considers, however, that “the risk of death associated with childbirth is about 10 times as high as that associated with abortion” (“Know the Facts”), the threat of abortion suddenly does not seem as perilous. Additionally, contrary to popular misconception, abortion does not contribute to future infertility or development of breast cancer. It is therefore safer and more prudent to have an abortion than an unwanted pregnancy.
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The child that I tested will be referred to as K.L. I tested her on April 14th 2016. K.L. is 2 years old, with her exact age being 2 years 9 months and 14 days. I called and asked her mother if she would mind dropping K.L. off with me for a few hours so I could perform the test, and then pick her back up after the test was complete. This test more accurate when the caregiver is not present. K.L. has a step sister and a baby brother on the way. She has always been in the daycare setting, because her grandmother is a provider. K.L. was delivered full term via planned cesarean section due to her mother’s small pelvis. There was no complications during this pregnancy. K.L. weighted 8 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20 ½ inches long at birth, now weighting in at ...
..., it is necessary to describe them in detail to the patient and to give a prognosis, as far as available medical knowledge will allow, regarding the outcome of pregnancy and postnatal development. To assist the patient in making a decision on the disposition of the pregnancy, prognostication should include medically documented risk figures. Ethically, pregnancy termination should not be recommended made to the patient and her family and significant others. This option should be discussed, but the ultimate decision of whether to continue the pregnancy should be left to the patient and her family and significant others. Furthermore, I think, it is better to refer her to the teratogen or genetic counselor to help her by providing the patient with as much information as possible and encourage her to make her own decision regarding whether to continue the pregnancy.
doubles her chances of getting breast or cerv ical cancer. Every consequent abortion increases these chances.6 Physical damage, however, is merely the beginning. Aborted mothers will also suffer many psychological effects as well. These include nightmares,
It is important to understand what women commonly experience during pregnancy. With a better understanding of what happens during prenatal development and childbirth, physicians can competently develop the best plan for the mother and baby. I interviewed two women who have been previously pregnant in order to evaluate how the ideas in the book translate into real-life experiences.
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the mis links about abortion leading to breast cancer is false. This study showed that a woman
Abortion is not just a moral or religious issue. It has an impact in medical field as well. It’s the cause for a disease to which name that bring the depression to each and every women on Earth- breast cancer is what it’s called. According to many professors and doctors, “abortion increases the likelihood that women will develop breast cancer.” For justification, let me tell you an interesting fact for the statement above. “At the early stage of pregnancy, breast grows in order to meet the needs for breastfeeding for the baby later on. But when the pregnancy is interrupted, the immature cells in women’s breast will increase the chances of having breast cancer” (“Russo”). Through this fact, we can understand that abortion is certainly the interruption of pregnancy. By this, the mother will most likely end up with breast cancer. If she doesn’t care about her child’s life, she might care about her own life, right? And is the reason of...
...most common risk is death. Death is a very common risk if you decided to abort in your late term because you are losing lots of blood which came from the baby that you were going to have. Therefore think about your decision twice and don’t make the same mistake twice.
The procedure causes health complications for the mother, inflicts pain on a living fetus, and kills the unborn baby. Late-term abortion induces innumerable physical health complications to the patient, including severe infections, extreme bleeding, and damage to the uterus. In addition, one analysis, in relation to abortion problems, states, “from 1988 to 1997 found the risk of death increased by 38% for each additional week of gestation, during the pregnancy.” (Jones).
There is also a high-resolution ultrasound scanning that can detect chromosomal and physical abnormalities in the first trimester as opposed to the second trimester. A technology such as this can create many ethical problems. Mcfadyen describes the biggest problem as being informed consent. “They may believe that it will provide information only about gestational age and be unaware of the range of abnormalities that can be detected. Recent research suggests that many women are not told beforehand of the first scan’s potential to detect fetal anomalies.”
Every woman when pregnant has a 3-5% chance of having a baby born with a birth defect, and these chances increase when the developing fetus/ embryos are exposed to teratogens, whether it’s intentional or unintentional (Bethesda (MD), 2006). Teratogens can cause severe birth defects, malformations, or terminate the pregnancy altogether (Jancárková, & Gregor, 2000). The placenta is known as an effective barrier from any detrimental pathogen that can potentially hurt the fetus. The timing of exposure of any teratogen is critical to the impact of prenatal development (Bethesda (MD), 2006). The most vulnerable time of the fetus for severe damage is during early pregnancy when all the major organ and central nervous system (CNS) are developing. Miscarriages have an important role in keeping a pregnancy from evolving when there is something serious going on with the developing fetus/embryo. Miscarriages are more common than we think and are the most familiar type of pregnancy loss (Bethesda (MD), 2006).
A lot of pregnancies have led to maternal mortality and maternal morbidity. This area of concern is often situated with MFM subspecialists, in order to reduce the rate of maternal mortality and maternal morbidity (Haywood, B., 2012). The Society for Maternal-fetal Medicine also strives to improve maternal and child birth outcomes by standards of prevention, diagnosis and treatment through research, education and training. (Schubert, K. & Cavarocchi, N., 2012) In order for MFM subspecialists to help reduce the rate of maternal deaths, they must receive adequate training and education, including research, which is very essential for treatment. The main focus of the MFM subspecialist is early diagnosis of fetal abnormalities, pathogenesis, and early diagnosis and treatment of pre-eclampsia and fetal growth restriction. In ...