Termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly, in a Tunisian population: About 77 cases

Background: Progress in prenatal diagnosis and prenatal screening in the past two decades allowed diagnosing an increasing number of fetal abnormalities throughout pregnancy. The aim of our study was to investigate the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of medical termination of pregnancy for fetal indication, in a Tunisian population, and analyze ethical issues arising. Subjects and methods: we followed a retrospective study compiling all births from medical termination of pregnancy for fetal indication, reported between January 2001 and June 2012 at Charles Nicolle hospital (Tunis-Tunisia). We exclud…