This was done to my ex-wife and I also about 25 years ago. During her pregnancy one of the tests indicated possible downs syndrome. The doctor was very quick to suggest an abortion. We choose to have the baby and my youngest daughter was born perfectly fine.
Yes I’ve heard of quite a few false positives.
So glad all worked out.
Lucky you weren’t living in Iceland.
I worked with a pilot who was with his wife at the dr off ice and was asked about a test to determine if their child had Down syndrome. He and his wife refused and said they didn’t want to know, that they would love the baby no matter what.
So much manipulation on the part of the big govt/medical establishment.
Sex-specific abortion has devastated parts of the middle east, asia, and india. This leading to forced abortion, which has been going on in China and other places for a long time. Government knows best!
I know from my work that genetic testing for potential birth defects goes on long past 10 weeks. For Down syndrome a person in the UK can abort at 20 or so weeks.
I recently read in the UK Daily Mail that a gal gave birth to a premature baby at about 20 weeks, within the legal limit for abortion. There was a pic of her and her teeny tiny infant that lived.
(Note: I think some of those people in the UK are getting onboard the “there’s no good reason to kill an unborn infant” train.)
The “doctor” was very quick to suggest abortion because MONEY.
I really have to wonder about the reliability of this test. I know two people that were to be Downs and the parents refused to terminate. Neither were born with it. One is now a network engineer and the other is a professional hockey player.
We as a nation should really seriously question these tests.
I know of another person (different condition) that the doctors said would “never be more than a vegetable, wont even ever learn to sit up” who is now an architect.
Maybe its not so much the tests as the interpretation. The person that graduates at the bottom of their class is still called “doctor”.