Abstract

Proceedings of a one day symposium for medical professionals with an interest in, or with a responsibility for, the development of ante-natal screening, fetal medicine and the provision of termination of pregnancy, held on 26 September 1996 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. The objectives of the symposium were: to provide an occasion for the discussion of the clinical and ethical issues involved in screening for fetal abnormality and in providing the options of continuing the pregnancy or abortion; to clarify good practice in respect of late abortion for fetal abnormality; to discuss the problems of providing a service sympathetic to women. (Author)