ABSTRACT
The subject of the interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions in the context of prenatal and genetic diagnostics was theoretically and empirically studied by the Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics Israel group, comprising representatives from the fields of psychoanalysis, medicine, and ethics. The need of ethics for psychoanalysis or the need of psychoanalysis for ethics is not self-evident. Psychoanalysis is often considered to be primarily a psychotherapeutic method, whereas ethics is a branch within philosophy. All of the Greek and Latin systems of ethics transmitted to the west through Judeo-Christianity consistently relate the Good and happiness. Although considerations of happiness are not absent from modern ethical discourse, Kant revolutionized this idea when he undid the link between good and well-being. The philosophical perspective described sets before us the meaning of the predicament facing women and their spouses as they come to decide on the question of abortion.
