Ethical Argument
 Pregnant Women be included in medical research
In recent past, the issue of whether pregnant women
should be included in medical research has raised a lot of discussions and
heated debates across health delivery and providers among other quarters
particularly in those who are concerned with bioethics. I believe now it is the
time to deal with the many challenges that have resulted to the exclusion of
pregnant women from significant medical studies which have the potential to
benefit maternal and fetal health.
Only in the last couple of years did people came to
know that women were being kept out of research not just from the risks, but
from the positive impact of which this research can lead to health the mother
and that of the in born. The argument for their exclusion is chiefly due to
their potential to become pregnant or because of concerns that female
physiology such as menstrual cycles might complicate study results (Gau, 1998).
