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Wednesday, April 30
Lazy Blogging
I've started a nasty habit... linking to something from Iconoculture nearly every week. This one is creepy!
Womb with a view: At-home ultrasound partiesLabels: iconoculture, weird
posted by Brad at 4/30/2008 03:59:00 PM | permalink |
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This is definitely a bad idea. The article says the ultrasound is nondiagnostic (which it shouldn't be!), but what if the U/S technician sees a birth defect that wasn't detected on early U/S (which, often, is the case). Since it's nondiagnostic, what is the technician's duty to warn? Also, if the mom chooses a 3D/4D U/S (which is all the craze right now), the features are much more recognizable to the general public than regular U/S! What happens in the scenario that mom is throwing one of these parties and chooses a 3D or 4D U/S and a cleft lip is picked up (normally very hard to detect on regular U/S) and all of her friends and family are viewing the U/S for fun with mom...in my opinion, there are definite ethical issues with these parties. Thanks for posting - very interesting!
By Thea, at 5/04/2008 10:01 AM
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