Motivation for the TARGeT project
Photo by Mark Fletcher-Brown on Unsplash We're currently in the process of getting our project set up, and in coming months will continue to introduce you to our growing team and our work. In the meantime, we thought we'd say a little about why we developed the TARGeT project. The kernel of the idea came about when our lead Investigator (Prof Ainsley Newson, University of Sydney - we introduce her here ) started to look for a common thread in a few things: The tendency, particularly in clinical literature, to use 'autonomy' as a means of defending the expanding scope of prenatal testing. A relative gap in the literature regarding constraints on reproductive autonomy, especially when compared to the (big) literature considering what the limits of reproductive autonomy should be (as in: how far people could or should push things). A focus in the literature on autonomy as being decision-specific, and being facilitated by information - without recognising aspects such as...