Wesley J. Smith: Mothers Refusing Prenatal Testing to Protect Babies with Down

First Things/Secondhand Smoke ^ | 9/19/10 | Wesley J. Smith

[Global2010]

Look at the upside turning down less tests that are not absolutely needed saves money.

[Global2010]

Ya know I wish I had a dose of Verced before I ever thought of responding to your first post.

I knew I would regret it.

It has been my exp. in reading your posts that you hyper defend and hyper debate on just about every subject.

End of response.

[brytlea]

I sent you a freepmail that probably explains better. Nice to know you have read every post I’ve ever posted tho (and that you don’t engage in hyperbole. ;)

[Global2010]

I have not read every post.

Just some.

Got the email. Thanks. It’s cool.

[brytlea]

Just trying to explain, not start a fight. It was very recent, so I guess I’m still a little touchy. Sorry. :)

[little jeremiah]

Perhaps Sarah Palin’s choosing life for her Downs baby has helped too.

[Straight Vermonter]

My wife told the doctor in no uncertain terms that she had lost our trust. We saw another doctor afterwards.

[Tired of Taxes]

I'd read, too, that the test was unreliable either way and that they'd have to back it up with amniocentesis.

Can you say *agenda*?

Sounds like it to me, too.

[Morpheus2009]

The problem with this, is if there is a problem for children with Down Syndrome, what other conditions make a child unfit to live? What’s next? I think that there’s the problem right there. People haven’t gotten over the kind of prejudice that send children who would today be considered simply mentally challenged, deaf, blind or dyslexic to a mental institution or the insane asylum, cut off from the world, only now they recommend killing them in the womb instead.

[narses]

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[malkee]

My sister-in-law had a baby boy at 44. Her previous pregnancy was at 37. In both pregnanices she refused prenatal testing for Downs. After the baby was born they tested for Downs for several weeks. He was fine.

[malkee]

Here's what he looks like today.