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Asked what he might want to change about himself, again like some of the others Rob replied, ‘I’m happy with my character, I’m very happy with what’s happening in my life at the moment’, and he was more keen to talk about how to change society. For example, one man with Down’s syndrome described being pushed and shoved in the street by his neighbours, and another was fed up with being Prenatal counselling and images of disability 205 treated by new work colleagues as if he were stupid, though he added, ‘They learn in the end, and then they realize that are the ones who look silly’. Their conditions did not appear to dominate their lives in most cases, and much time was spent talking about the many things they had in common with their ‘ordinary’ peers: work or unemployment, income, housing, relationships, leisure activities and ambitions. The other more disabled people with spina biWda included a young single mother who was also a college student, and Richard and Vivian who both used wheelchairs. He enjoyed going to city clubs with friends, and could haul himself in his chair up and down stairs, so he used underground trains despite oYcials trying to stop him. He said that when he joined mainstream secondary school, the wheelchair users were all taught mobility and coping with stairs and pave- ment kerbs, which helped him to become very Wt. You do feel low and in pain and angry with people and it is important to have friends and to go out for a drink’, and she talked enthusiastically about her many interests. Vivian was planning to have a baby and she talked of her mixed feelings about taking folic acid to reduce the risk of the baby having spina biWda, yet ‘being proud that I have spina biWda’ because it had given her such experience, knowledge and opportunities she would not otherwise have had. They also tended to say that they would respect any decision made by prospective parents after being properly informed, whether to continue or end a pregnancy aVected by their condition, though they hoped the pregnancy would continue and some had mixed feelings. For example, two men with Down’s syn- drome, who had been talking intently about their acting, suddenly looked very sad when asked about screening, and said they did not want to talk about it, as if the subject was too painful. However, the interviewees had far more similarities than diVerences, including the ways they reXected on their lives, and their belief that they suVered from the general stigma of disability more than from their actual condition. This raises questions about why the prenatal literature, policy makers and counsellors make so little mention of the potential range of each condi- tion from mild to severe, of the increasingly eVective treatments which Jenny mentioned, and of the possibility that some therapeutic abortions may prevent potentially rewarding lives. A further complication for prenatal predictions is the mismatch, shown particularly by the people with spina biWda, between the degree of severity of physical disability and the way people value and enjoy their lives. Prenatal counselling and images of disability 207 The implications of the interviews for prenatal counselling and maternal–fetal relations The overall impression given by the interviewees was of very interesting, thoughtful and pleasant people. Most of them appeared to value and enjoy their lives, sometimes despite pain and serious illness, as much as any average group of 40 young adults might say they do. One man with sickle cell anaemia was in such pain that his interview took place over three separate visits, but this was because he was so keen to take part. Their friends appeared to value them, and so did their families, with one exception as might be expected in any group of 40 adults (her mother had died and her father had remarried). Most interviewees had far more in common with their ‘ordinary’ peers than diVerences, and none showed any clear reason why their life would have been better prevented. Even allowing for the artiWcial nature of the research interview, and the way our methods partly shape the evidence, as is inevitable in every type of research, the interviewees provide compelling evidence for questioning the assumptions on which prenatal policies and counselling are based – that it is reasonable to prevent such lives. The interviewees challenge the view that it is kinder to terminate any aVected pregnancy, however mildly the fetus might be aVected, because life is so awful for the severest cases. Repeatedly, interviewees spoke of the crucial importance to them of being involved in mainstream society – schools and colleges, homes and jobs, clubs and pubs and friendships. They tended to stress their need to see beyond their condition as a personal predicament, and to press for greater inclusion by challenging negative attitudes in society, and by showing how they could be involved. They were grateful to parents who encouraged them to be strong and who, as one woman with Down’s syndrome said of her mother, were ready to ‘Wght for my rights [even through] the High Court, the High Court of Justice! Some of them helped to train medical students, and they criticized inaccurate medical images of disability, such as the sickly child advertisements that raise funds for medical research. Richard was referring to a theme that ran through the interviews – of adaptation, ingenuity and a resilience that grows through accepting and surmounting diYculties. This is in contrast to prenatal screening policies which propose eVorts to prevent and avoid diYculties, as if human beings cannot or should not have to experience them, and as if disability is not inevitable for most human beings, at least at the beginning and end of life. The interviewees quoted earlier suggest that this approach is unrealistic, because ordinary people’s lives so often involve problems – such as with relationships, loss, frustrating limitations or poverty. Fearful avoidance of disability, rather than promoting ways to support disabled people’s lives, is liable to diminish people rather than freeing them into new achievement and conWdence. The diYculty in these criteria is the current limitations in predicting how severe an impairment might be or might become, how much it may be ameliorated by social or medical support, and how the aVected person and family may experience similar diYculties either as hardship and suVering or as part of a worthwhile rewarding life. Some parents value their Prenatal counselling and images of disability 209 child’s very short life far more than no life at all (Delight and Goodall, 1990). Unawareness may include unawareness of suVering, which would obviate the criterion of suVering, and uncertainty again prevails over the diagnosis and prognosis of unawareness. Children who have been dismissed as ‘vegetables’ are perceived by others to experience profound feelings, such as by the researcher who commented, ‘Cabbages do not cry’ (Oswin, 1971). The argument that prenatal selection is diVerent from ending such lives after birth, and aVects attitudes towards impaired fetuses only, is unconvincing. The interviewees show that some disabled people feel threatened and disad- vantaged by the prejudices which are, perhaps inadvertently, promoted through prenatal screening. The emphasis on particular impairments when selecting an embryo or fetus as worth preserving suggests that any policy diVerence between preserving an embryo or a person with, say, thalassaemia is not one of principle but of practicality. Social exclusion, school exclusion and family exclusion (in numbers of teenagers living on the streets) are increasing rapidly, as are expectations that children should conform to ever more speciWc milestones, school tests and behaviour standards with an unjust ‘zero-tolerance’ which does not allow for contingencies and disadvantages. Prenatal programmes are not responsible for these changes, but they are part of them, and are powerful medical and oYcial indirect endorsements of them. Another theme of injustice is when public rejection, expressed through national prenatal programmes, is made to appear to be a matter of private grief and responsibility, as when each individual woman faces the ‘choice’ of termination of pregnancy, a choice constrained by social and economic circumstances. Tests which screen ‘negatively’ for one or a few speciWc impairments are soon likely to become multi-package tests to screen simultaneously for numerous impair- ments, and then tests to select ‘positively’ for growing numbers of preferred features such as intelligence or height. When the embryo and fetus, and implicitly the baby and child, are presented to women by health professionals as a means of fulWlling adults’ dreams of perfection, rather than as ordinarily imperfect mortals to love as ends in themselves, then maternal– child as well as maternal–fetal relationships are likely to become ever more tentative and conditional. I am grateful to everyone who took part in the research,and to my co-researchers,although I am responsible for any shortcomings and opinions in this chapter. Over time, the initial way a problem is deWned then crystallizes policy debates, producing what can then become a very rigid framework, all but impossible to expand or modify (Rochefort and Cobb, 1994: vii, pp. Constitutionally, in the course of nearly 30 years of Supreme Court reasoning, abortion rights have become rigidly deWned as a problem of decisional autonomy, that is, as a problem of privacy and choice. Politically, during that same time period, the problem of abortion has been deWned by pro-life activists (as we would expect), but also by pro-choice advocates (as we might not expect) on the basis of a very traditional model of motherhood, one invoking cultural and ethical depictions of women as maternal, self-sacriWcing nurturers. The combination of deWning the problem of abortion rights constitu- tionally in terms of the privacy of choice and politically in terms of a traditional view of motherhood has produced a rigid, serious policy conse- quence – namely, failure to obtain access to abortion services for women in the form of public funding of abortions. Correction of this policy conse- quence requires a redeWnition of the problem of abortion rights from both constitutional and political perspectives, which entails, as part of that re- deWnition, a transformation of the traditional model of motherhood to include nontraditional elements. To understand more clearly what is in- volved in this transformative process, let us review the current status of how a traditional model of motherhood underlies the current way the problem of abortion is deWned. McDonagh Problem definition: constitutionalism and politics In the United States, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the state from depriving ‘any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law’. This Due Process right of privacy has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that a state may not interfere with a person’s choice about whom to marry, how to educate and raise one’s children, or the choice to use contraceptives. When the Supreme Court established the constitutional right to an abortion in Roe v Wade in 1973, it did so by ruling that the Due Process right to privacy was ‘broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy’ without interference from the state. This decision was a breakthrough for women’s rights because it immediately struck down nu- merous state laws that had severely limited procurement of an abortion (Ginsburg, 1985; Klarman, 1996). The Court reasoned that because a pregnant woman ‘carries [potential life] within her’, she ‘cannot be isolated in her privacy’ and her ‘privacy is no longer sole’. Thus, in Roe, the Court established that it is constitutional for the state to protect the fetus from the moment of conception and that a pregnant woman’s right of privacy to make a choice to terminate pregnancy can be limited by, or balanced against, the state’s interest in protecting the fetus as a separate entity from the consequences of that choice.

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His blood pressure is elevated but asymmetric in his arms, and he has a new murmur of aortic insufficiency. All of these fea- tures strongly suggest aortic dissection as the cause of his pain. He is tall with pectus excavatum and other features of Marfan syndrome, which may be the underlying cause of his dissection. Learn the clinical and radiographic features of aortic dissection as well as complications of dissection. Understand the management of dissection and the indications for surgical versus medical treatment. In hypertensive patients with dissection, urgent blood pressure lowering is indicated to limit propaga- tion of the dissection. Aneurysms can occur anywhere in the thoracic or abdominal aorta, but the large majority occur in the abdomen, below the renal arteries. Sometimes referred to as a “dissecting aneurysm,” although the term is misleading because the dissection typically produces the aneurysmal dilation rather than the reverse. It receives most of the shear forces generated by the heart with every heartbeat throughout the lifetime of an individual. The wall of the aorta is composed of three layers: the intima, the media, and the adventitia. These specialized layers allow the aortic wall to distend under the great pressure created by every heartbeat. Some of this kinetic energy is stored as potential energy, thus allowing forward flow to be maintained during the cardiac cycle. One must consider the great tensile stress that the walls of this vessel faces when considering the pathologic processes that affect it. Cystic degeneration of the elastic media predisposes patients to aortic dis- section. This occurs in various connective tissue disorders that cause cystic medial degeneration, such as Marfan and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Other fac- tors predisposing to aortic dissection are hypertension, aortic valvular abnor- malities such as aortic stenosis and congenital bicuspid aortic valve, coarctation of the aorta, pregnancy, and atherosclerotic disease. Aortic dissection may occur iatrogenically after cardiac surgery or catheterization. A dissection occurs when there is a sudden intimal tear or rupture followed by the formation of a dissecting hematoma within the aortic media, separat- ing the intima from the adventitia and propagating distally. The presence of hypertension and associated shear forces are the most important factors caus- ing propagation of the dissection. It can produce an intraluminal intimal flap, which can occlude branch arteries and cause organ ischemia or infarction. The hematoma may rupture into the pericardial sac, causing cardiac tampon- ade, or into the pleural space, causing exsanguination. It can produce severe acute aortic regurgitation leading to fulminant heart failure. Differentiating the pain of dissection from the pain of myocardial ischemia or infarction is essential because the use of anticoagulation or thrombolytics in a patient with a dissection may be devastating. In contrast to anginal pain, which often builds over minutes, the pain of dissection is often maximal at onset. In addition, myocardial ischemia pain usually is relieved with nitrates, whereas the pain of dissection is not. Also, because most dissections begin very close to the aortic valve, a dissection may produce the early diastolic murmur of aortic insufficiency; if it occludes branch arteries, it can produce dramatically different pulses and blood pressures in the extremities. Most patients with dissection are hypertensive; if hypotension is present, one must suspect aortic rupture, cardiac tamponade, or dissection of the subclavian artery supplying the arm where the blood pressure is being measured. Often a widened superior mediastinum is noted on plain chest film because of dissec- tion of the ascending aorta. When aortic dissection is suspected, confirming the diagnosis with an imaging study is essential. Because of the emergent nature of the condition, the best initial study is the one that can be obtained and interpreted quickly in the given hospital setting. Several classification schemes describe the different types of aortic dissec- tions. Type A dissection always involves the ascending aorta but can involve any other part. Type B dissec- tion does not involve the ascending aorta but can involve any other part. Two-thirds of aortic dissections originate in the ascending aorta a few cen- timeters above the aortic valve. Virtually all type A (proximal or ascending) dissections require urgent surgical therapy with replacement of the involved aorta and sometimes the aortic valve. Type B dissections do not involve the ascending aorta and typically origi- nate in the aortic arch distal to the left subclavian artery. Type B dissections usually are first managed medically, and surgery usually is performed only for complications such as rupture or ischemia of a branch artery of the aorta. The aim of medical therapy is to prevent propagation of the dissection by reducing mean arterial pressure and the rate of rise (dP/dT) of arterial pressure, which cor- relates with arterial shear forces. Intravenous vasodilators, such as sodium nitro- prusside to lower blood pressure, can be administered, along with intravenous beta-blockers, such as metoprolol, to reduce shear forces. Alternatively, one can administer intravenous labetalol, which accomplishes both tasks. It is a degenerative condition typically found in older men (>50 years), most com- monly in smokers, who often have atherosclerotic disease elsewhere, such as coronary artery disease or peripheral vascular disease. The risk of rupture is related to the size of the aneurysm: the annual rate of rupture is low if the aneurysm is smaller than 5 cm but is at least 10% to 20% for 6-cm aneurysms. The risk of rupture must be weighed against the surgical risk of elective repair, which traditionally required excision of the diseased aorta and replacement with a Dacron graft. Recently, endovascular grafts with stents have been used as a less invasive pro- cedure with less risk than the traditional surgical repair, but the exact role of this procedure remains to be defined. Surgery is urgently required in the event of aortic root or other proximal (type A) dissections. Unrecognized and hence untreated aortic dissection can quickly lead to exsanguination and death. For asymptomatic aneurysms smaller than 5 cm, the 5-year risk of rupture is less than 1% to 2%, so serial noninvasive monitoring is an alternative strategy. A bicuspid aortic valve is usually asymptomatic and does not place the patient at risk for aortic aneurysms. Other patients at risk include those with Marfan syndrome,congenital aortic anomalies,or otherwise normal women in the third trimester of pregnancy.

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