Knowledge About the Sex of an Unborn Fetus Is a Byproduct

question 10

Essay

Knowledge about the sex of an unborn fetus is a byproduct of prenatal testing. Because such information might be used as the basis for elective abortion for sex selection, should information about the sex of an unborn child be withheld from the parents unless it is medically relevant?

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Definitions:

Ink

A colored fluid or paste used for writing, printing, or drawing.

Toner

A powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the printed text and images on paper.

Ordinal

Pertaining to an ordering or ranking in a sequence, often used in statistics, mathematics, and data analysis to describe ordered data.

Subscript

A character set slightly below the normal line of type, often used in chemical formulas and mathematical expressions.