Each week at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris (a renowned paediatric hospital), the medical staff has to grapple with fate : based on the results of a number of medical exams (ultra sound, MRI, amniocentesis), they will have to decide whether a foetal handicap represents a "substantial risk" ("une particulière gravité") which justifies a voluntary termination of pregnancy. An article of French law places them in a position to decide over life and death.