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Ethics, jurisprudence: fetus, newborn

Canada

• British Columbia Perinatal Health Program
  • Management of the Mother/Fetus and Newborn Near the Threshold of Neonatal Viability (22-25 Completed Weeks) [2001]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Use of anencephalic newborns as organ donors [2009]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Statement on gender selection [2007]
  • Non-Medical Use of Fetal Ultrasound [2007]
  • Fetal Sex Determination and Disclosure [2007]

Netherlands

• Health Council of the Netherlands
  • Care for the unborn child [2009]
  • Considerations pertaining to neonatal life termination [2007]

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Borderline Viability Guidelines [2007]

United Kingdom

• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • The Management of Babies Born Extermely Preterm at less than 26 weeks of gestation: a Framework for Clinical Practice at the Time of Birth [2008]
  • Fetuses and Newborn Infants at the Threshold of Viability: A Framework for Practice [2000]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Registration of stillbirths and certification for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks of gestation [2005]
  • Disposal following pregnancy loss before 24 weeks of gestation [2005]
  • Further Issues Relating to Late Abortion, Fetal Viability and Registration of Births and Deaths [2001]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Antenatal Counseling Regarding Resuscitation at an Extremely Low Gestational Age [2009]
  • Noninitiation or Withdrawal of Intensive Care for High-Risk Newborns [2007]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Adoption [2007]
  • Maternal Decision Making, Ethics and the Law [2005]
  • Patient Choice in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship [2004]

• President's Council on Bioethics
  • The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening: An Ethical Analysis by the President's Council on Bioethics [2008]

Articles in journals

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • The limits of perinatal viability: grappling with the “grey zone” [2006]
  • Perinatal care at the borderlines of viability: a consensus statement based on a NSW and ACT consensus workshop [2006]

• Pediatrics
  • Perinatal Care at the Threshold of Viability: An International Comparison of Practical Guidelines for the Treatment of Extremely Preterm Births [2008]
  • Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns About Expanded Newborn Screening: Fragile X Syndrome as a Prototype for Emerging Issues [2008]
  • Do Differences in the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Positions on the Ethics of Maternal-Fetal Interventions Reflect Subtly Divergent Professional Sensitivities to Pregnant Women and Fetuses? [2006]
  • Executive Summary of the Workshop on the Border of Viability [2005]

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