ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some considerations on the impact that a specific technology, ultrasonography, would appear to have had on pregnant women and, indeed, not only on them. Maternal/fetal medicine is undergoing a progressive 'feminisation', at least in Italy, and when it comes to dealing with psychological aspects of pregnancy, women generally find it easier to confide in their similars. Living in a Catholic country one is only too painfully aware of how new knowledge and modern technologies can be used to make women feel even more guilty should they decide to terminate pregnancy for any motive, no matter how reasonable. The technological and scientific advances seem to have increased rather dramatically women's anxieties as well as their faith in all-powerful medicine to prevent any wrong. Dangers and perils that were once felt to be connected with childbirth alone are beginning to pervade the entire length of pregnancy.
