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Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis: The Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World

Rayna Rapp

New School for Social Research

This article explores the reasons women of diverse class, racial ethnic, national, and religious backgrounds give for their decisions not to accept an amniocentesis or, having accepted one, not to pursue an abortion after diagnosis of serious fetal disability. The narratives of refusers reveal conflicts and tensions between the universalizing rationality of biomedical interventions into pregnancy and the wider heterogeneous social frame work to which women respond in their decision-making processes.

Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 23, No. 1, 45-70 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300103
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