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Article: An ethical argument: Include pregnant women in research.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- October 16, 2008
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Why aren't pregnant women included in most clinical trials?
That's the question posed by leading bioethicists at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, who say it's time to confront the challenges that have led to the exclusion of pregnant women from important research that could positively impact maternal and fetal health (see also Duke University Medical Center).
"Only in the last two decades did people recognize that women were being excluded not just from the risks, but from the benefits of research -- primarily because of their potential to become pregnant or because of concerns that female physiology - such as ...