YOU CAN’T WIN
THE DOWNSIDE OF ADVANCED PRENATAL SCREENING
Your chest tightens and your throat constricts. The low buzz builds into a sharp ringing in your ears and drowns out your words. But you know you said it aloud because the doctor nods. You know you said it aloud, but you don’t feel any better.
“Down syndrome,” you re-read the neat black words.
What now?
According to Prenatal Screening Ontario, “of every 100 pregnancies with Down syndrome, about 80-85 will be detected (80-85%)” within the first trimester screening. The accuracy rate is impressive and reliable, and reflected in a review published in the medial journal Prenatal Diagnosis which reports that 67-85% of women choose to terminate their pregnancies upon learning that their baby has Down syndrome.
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