Who's your Daddy?

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

To circle back to the original situation, if you remove the elements of sexuality what you really have is the ethics of keeping secrets and betraying confidences. As a dissintereted 3rd party (the Doctor) what should he or she divulge and to whom?

I think we're all pretty clear that the best situation is where a couple is honest which it other. But this is an example of where they are not.

Being that the pregnant woman is his (or her) patient, his obligation is to respect her confidentiality. He has no professional relationship with her husband, so he isn't obligated to tell him anything without her permission. In fact, doing so would be illegal.

In my opinion, that's the way things should be. If the woman feels she can trust the doctor, then she's more likely to be honest about genetically/medically important information.