From the Preface: "How happy I would be if these pages entered so many homes and became a mirror of truth…"
"This book wants to be a lighthouse in the storm…"
From the Conclusion:
"Prenatal diagnosis of conditions incompatible with life opens us more and more to the great dilemma of how to use scientific knowledge, but often it does not prepare us for the acceptance of disability and the suffering that accompanies it… It proposes the term 'terminal fetus'—that is, a medicine without hope. What is terminality? Were we truly born to 'end,' or, as Hannah Arendt says: 'Human beings, although they must die, are not born for dying, but for beginning anew'?
We believe we are born to begin anew. This book is meant to prove it.