George Annas believes that, historically,

a) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could justify the view that abortion is permissible because the fetus would be better off dead.
b) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could be rectified by genetic therapies.
c) prenatal screening has been used as a substitute for elective abortion.
d) all of these choices.


a) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could justify the view that abortion is permissible because the fetus would be better off dead.

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