Posted on 08/21/2011 11:42:57 AM PDT by pillut48
THIS month brought news that could alter the landscape of American pregnancy.
Tests using DNA to determine a fetus’s sex were shown to be remarkably accurate, able to tell with 95 percent certainty as early as seven weeks into pregnancy, if a woman is carrying a boy or girl. The tests, which detect the fetus’s DNA in a mother’s blood or urine, are available in drugstores and online, and reports about their accuracy are likely to increase their popularity.
But the tests also raise ethical questions: whether couples will abort fetuses of an unwanted sex — as has happened in China and India, where boys now outnumber girls. The possibility discomfits many, and is also providing fuel for anti-abortion politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Thank you for the correction; if I’m wrong, I always want to know! I prefer truth over fondly held wrong opinions.
I knew that ;-).
Science has advanced, and there are non-invasive tests for some conditions that can provide useful information. For people who are not going to kill their child, no matter what his condition, the possibility of the test results’ being erroneous can be taken into account in a reasonable way.
One of my friends who has a child with Down’s says that, although it was emotionally difficult knowing in advance her child would be handicapped, the information helped them to prepare their home and their other children for their daughter’s unique needs.
Not sure why ... some sort of sickness or infestation of evil on their part.
This whole thing is making me nuts.
If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian.
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