Response to Confronting a Fetal Abnormality

After reading the article "Response to Confronting a Fetal Abnormality", I have to take sides with Doctor Fox who chose to inform Mrs. Ansari of the dismal news regarding her pregnancy. I feel as though he could have waited to share the news with Mrs. Ansari until she was more emotionally stable and better able to handle the report like Mr. Ansari suggested. However, I understand why Dr. Fox felt it was his urgent duty to inform Mrs. Ansari of the condition of her pregnancy, as opposed to the wishes of her mother, seeing as it is Mrs. Ansari's body/ Mrs. Ansari's baby so she should be entitled to know over anyone else. I am sure that this was an extremely difficult decision for doctor Fox to make and extremely difficult for him to discuss with Mrs. Ansari, however, in the medical field I feel that it is always necessary for doctors to inform their patients on the condition of their health no matter how upsetting the news may be so that the patient knows exactly what is happening to their body and begin to accept their condition/ receive treatment. With this example, specifically, I feel that it was necessary for Dr. Fox to inform Mrs. Ansari of her fetuses' abnormality and recommend that the pregnancy is terminated because if Mrs. Ansari were to carry this baby to full term, it could be detrimental to her own health and she would just be even more devastated if she carried this child for 9 months with the hopes of receiving the "long-anticipated boy that the entire family has been hoping for" only to deliver a still- born infant.