Abstract
Antenatal diagnosis of sickle-cell and therapeutical abortion for African immigrant women French Doctors recommend to pregnant women from Africa, the antenatal detection of sickle-cell, a widely spread genetical disease. When the foetus has a severe type of disease, they are offered a therapeutic abortion. The practice of medical abortion, while it is forbidden in their native countries, and the idea of giving birth to a handicap child, while the perception of this disease is not linked to a handicap, send them back to a new health pattern. In this context, the African woman experiments a normative, but also emancipatory scheme of the medical System.
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