Posted: May 19, 2012 5:11 pm
Pressure to terminate from medical professionals is a seperate issue from availability of screening. This woman doesn't even want the knowledge of a special needs child to be available to parents until the kid is born. That hurts everyone in the equation.
Yeah, false positives happen but the way this woman is portraying matters is you get a quad screen at 15 weeks, increased likelihood of Downs is detected and, boom, you're told to abort. No. You undergo further testing to confirm the diagnosis. Then the doc might offer up termination. CVS and amnios are extraordinarily accurate.
I'm happy for this woman. She has a child she loves. That's terrific. Her belief that everyone else will be happy if they just do what she did and her attempt to force her chosen path upon others, I take serious issue with.
Yeah, false positives happen but the way this woman is portraying matters is you get a quad screen at 15 weeks, increased likelihood of Downs is detected and, boom, you're told to abort. No. You undergo further testing to confirm the diagnosis. Then the doc might offer up termination. CVS and amnios are extraordinarily accurate.
I'm happy for this woman. She has a child she loves. That's terrific. Her belief that everyone else will be happy if they just do what she did and her attempt to force her chosen path upon others, I take serious issue with.