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S. Olin Lauritzen, S. Georgsson Öhmann and S. Saltvedt
on in this chapter. See also Ettorre (2000) for a feminist embodied approach to
reproductive technology.
6 For this interview study, all together 24 women were recruited consecutively at
four ultrasound units in the Stockholm region from the group of women who
received high risk results (1:250 or higher) in a randomized controlled trial of
foetal screening including risk assessment for Down syndrome by measurement
of nuchal translucency which was carried out as a multi-centre study of 39,572
women in Sweden from 1999 to 2002 (Saltvedt
et al
. 2005). After an invasive
test (amniocentesis or in a few cases chorionic villious sampling), Down
syndrome was confi rmed in four of the 24 cases, and these women made the
choice to terminate the pregnancy. For the remaining 20 women, the high risk
information turned out to be false.
7 The interviews were carried out by Susanne Georgsson Öhman and Sissel
Saltvedt, who have professional backgrounds as midwife and obstetrician
respectively.
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