to test her amniotic fluid for chromosomal defects and genetic disorders
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It is also used to determine the maturity of the baby.
But that’s not its primary purpose.
I was offered it once with my first pregnancy.
I asked the NP if that was the test to check for Down’s Syndrome, and she said yes. I told her that no, I would not be taking it because abortion was NOT an option.
She looked me in the eye and said *I wish more people felt like you*. and that was the end of it. She must have marked by chart somehow because with my subsequent pregnancies, they never asked again.
That practice refused to do abortions and the hospital where I had the babies didn’t do them and they had an astoundingly low infant mortality rate.
IMO, God blessed them for that.