Testing for fetal abnormalities can alert expectant parents to potential health problems to come. And it’s the parents who …
Down syndrome
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Will a New Mass. Law Discourage Women from Aborting Fetuses with Down Syndrome?
Massachusetts doctors are now required to give specific, written information about Down syndrome to women who learn that their fetus has the chromosomal disorder.
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Why a Mother Would Have Aborted Her Son
In her essay, Emily Rapp freely admits she would have aborted her son, who has Tay-Sachs disease, a disorder she expects will kill him this year. What would Rick Santorum say?
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Why Down Syndrome Is on the Decline
New prenatal blood tests can inform pregnant women as early as 10 weeks that their fetus may have Down syndrome.
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Down Syndrome: With Breakthroughs in Testing, a Choice Becomes Tougher
Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is that she’s not pro-life or pro-choice or pro anything — other than pro-information.
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A Blood Test Determines a Baby’s Sex Earlier than Ever. But at What Cost?
Boy or girl? New research finds that a simple blood test can answer that question for expectant parents at just seven weeks, significantly earlier than results from procedures like ultrasound and with less risk than invasive …
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Can a New Blood Test Make Babies with Down Syndrome Disappear?
What if new tests for Down syndrome could one day mean no more affected babies are born? Is that cause to celebrate medical advances or reason to worry we are callously weeding out the less-than-perfect in our midst?
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Down Syndrome Goes Viral, Thanks to a High School Touchdown
Recently, a Canadian couple insisted their surrogate have an abortion after learning that the fetus she was carrying had Down syndrome. Mired as they were in talk of bioethics and contract law, it’s doubtful that the parties …
