We need to enquire about the political distribution of the diagnoses leading to abortions. Too suspicious about diagnosis conspiracies? I wouldn’t it past our woke doctors and lab techs.
The only reason for an amniocentesis.
Ok. Primary reason for Amnio
There is syndrome called 22Q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. It affects 1 out of 3,000 births. It usually results in about a dozen medical defects, out of 200 different possibilities. Some babies have few affects on their lives, while many end up seriously affected with many surgeries and feeding problems.
About a year ago, the FDA approved a prenatal test for the deletion. A recent study found that 92% of positive results result in an abortion.
In middle age, he adopted an ungrateful boy, who abused and abandoned him. He said that, no matter how painful that was, he would do it again just to try to contend with his terrible loneliness.
He was loved deeply by his family, but their lives were destroyed by his condition. His mother died in deep depression, lacking the will to live any longer.
His family loved him and tried to be of help, but there was little they could do.
His father had to work very hard to accumulate enough money to support him.
At one point, his mother, a highly conventional woman, said to me defiantly and in strict confidence that she would "pay someone" to be a sex partner to him. This was a very radicle thing for her to say, but it reveals the extent of her desperation.
When he was a newborn, he was not expected to live. His mother said uncomplimentarily that she believed his paternal grandmother hoped he would not live. She was probably right. Obviously he did live. I would have been better if he had not.
We were told to abort one of our twins because of a heart defect diagnosis. Full disclosure: we lost their brother to HLHS the year prior. After serving as an officer in the US Navy for six years, he is now about to turn 30 and completing his PhD studies in nuclear engineering. ALWAYS seek a second opinion!
I have an ex-sister-in-law who was pregnant and her doc told her that her baby would be born without lungs, and that it was best to just abort it now. She didn’t, her son was born fine, and is almost 40. Her 2nd pregnancy, she was told her baby didn’t have a brain, and would be stillborn, and that it would be best to abort now. She didn’t. Her daughter was born healthy, and is in her 30’s without any problems.
This isn’t a NEW phenomenon.
After my recent run arounds with the medical community this past fall because *something* showed up on a scan or test, and my PCP wanted me to see a specialist, virtually every specialist said there was nothing there, the repeat tests showed nothing wrong. I don’t need to come back and see them.
I don’t trust their testing and scans, etc.
Or them.