Reproductive stuff

Question 1

What are the four principles of medical ethics?

Answer 1

• Autonomy
• Beneficence
• Nonmaleficence
• Justice

Question 2

True or false: appellate courts have held that a pregnant woman’s decisions should take precedence over the fetus’s

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the two patient model?

Answer 3

• Any intervention on a fetus must be done through the mother, but
• Women should never be treated solely as a means to an end

Question 4

True or false: interests of maternal-fetal relationship are more often convergent than adversarial

Answer 4

True

Question 5

True or false: court orders in the maternal-fetal relationship are rarely acceptable

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What is the correct view of maternal addiction?

Answer 6

It is a disease, rather than a moral failing

Question 7

What is the major issues with coercive and punitive approaches to patients?

Answer 7

• treat psych illnesses as if they were moral failings
• Discourage prenatal care
• Single out the most vulnerable women
• Potentially criminalize otherwise legal behavior

Question 8

True or false: courts have recognized that the right of informed consent and bodily integrity takes precedence over the impact on others

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What is the consequence of the coercive and punitive approaches?

Answer 9

• Discourage prenatal care
• Criminalize o/w legal behavior
• Singles out vulnerable women

Question 10

What is the issue with having successive cesarian sections and trying to have vaginal delivery?

Answer 10

may risk uterine rupture

Question 11

What are the complications of twins?

Answer 11

• Preeclampsia
• Gestational DM
• Prematurity
• Operative delivery

Question 12

Is participation (or refusal to) in sex selection supported by the ACOG?

Answer 12

Yes