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: January 2, 2007
Obstetricians Push to Expand Down's Syndrome Screening

There's a big change coming for pregnant women: Down syndrome testing no longer hinges on whether they're older or younger than 35. This week, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists begins recommending that every pregnant woman, regardless of age, be offered a choice of tests for this common birth defect.
The main reason: Tests far less invasive than the long-used amniocentesis are now widely available, some that can tell in the first trimester the risk of a fetus having Down syndrome or other chromosomal defects.
It's a change that promises to decrease unnecessary amnios - giving mothers-to-be peace of mind without the ordeal - while also detecting Down syndrome in moms who otherwise would have gone unchecked.
The new guideline is published in the January issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

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Posted by papijoe at January 2, 2007 11:54 AM

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By all means, expand the search-and-destroy. What an attitude! I wonder how these top scientists would feel it it was some trait they had that folks were encouraging eliminating in-utero as a public health measure.

I think the world would be better off with more DS kids and fewer intolerant, bigoted doctors.

Posted by: Christina on January 2, 2007 5:39 PM

That is another way that Planned Parenthood is trying to kill more and more of our children. Thay devised the plan to make it a must to test for DS and the public better take notice. Today in China men are going to North Korea to find wives, because of killing so many girl babies. Now the half breeded Chiness and Korian are not wanted they are people with out a country. That is how this country is rapidly becoming.

The old folks of my parents generation made that abortion law and has wounded so many women and chippled us by our grief that we can not have a normal life. Now my children's generation are paying the price and even my murdered grandchildren. The only way that I can even see them is to die.

So from my observation the old folks don't care for our young women and men they only care for the money that is coming into their pockets from killing more children and killing our countries future. This is a democrat and republican issue because they both run on abortion as a wedge. The only way that it is going to stop it that people rise up and take responsibility and say no more. Our Creator will hold each and every person accountable for murder at the time of JUDGEMENT.

Posted by: Barbara Morris on January 3, 2007 9:55 PM


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