http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle4184387.ece
Anyone else seen this?
I'm not so sure it's a good thing. It will probably mean more abortions but then, what life will the child have if the parents can't accept them? I suppose it might also give parents the chance to prepare.
I remember when I was pregnant the 1st time, the community midwife wanted us to have genetic counselling because my OH has an uncle with Down's and his Nan wasn't particularly old when she had him. We discussed it and my OH said why bother, would it make a difference to us if they said we a had a high risk of having a down's syndrome baby, to which the answer was no. On my second pregnancy, we didn't even bother having the routime test that tells you if you have a low or high risk as, due to where I lived, all my bloods had to be taken at the hospital and not at my community ante natal clinic so I had to ask for them to take it while I was there and the midwife sat down and asked me what I would do if it came back high risk, when I said nothing, she said, well why bother because it will only worry you.
However, while I would not have considered amniocentesis due to the risk, I think if someome had offered me the chance for a definitive answer without any risk to the baby I probably would have wanted to know, just to be more prepared.