ABSTRACT
The issues around antenatal screening are immense, encompassing as they do questions about our attitudes to ourselves as persons, to the possibilities of a God and to the very foundations of our moral and ethical values. As antenatal care and screening have developed, people have come to expect that they will have a perfect child. But even if this were a possibility (which it is not) would it be right? It cannot be accepted that, because something is scientifically possible, it is good in itself.
