Coronavirus, maternal fetal care and bioethics
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic infection during pregnancy brings potential bioethical issues in critical obstetrics, prenatal counseling, and making decisions over pregnancy termination and delivery. Maternal-fetal care using evidence- based medicine from the MFM health team, along with disciplines such as epigenetics and perinatal immunology, should use ethical values, guidelines, and protocols born of multidisciplinary consensus provided along with ethical committees assistance, where it is essential to apply the principles of beneficence and respect of autonomy, in addition to fetal consideration as a patient, particularly in presence of viability. Using enlightening discussion and reflexive prudent clinical judgment taking into consideration facts, values, and duties to make decisions is the ethical and human guideline to face the tremendous challenge represented by the pandemic during pregnancy in Latin America.