From the Family Research Council:A new guideline on prenatal screening has disability advocates and pro-lifers up in arms. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has recommended that starting this week, every pregnant woman, regardless of age, be offered a choice of tests to detect Down syndrome in her baby. Until recently, only women 35 and older had been routinely offered the tests because research indicates that the risk for Down syndrome increases with the mother's age. However, this latest wave of testing would begin with a controversial--and often inaccurate--screening of unborn children in the first three months of pregnancy.
While studies say the method is 80 percent accurate, the statistic is openly questioned by U.S. insurance companies who often refuse to cover the expense because it wrongly diagnoses a number of women each year. The truth is, this latest push is nothing but a veiled attempt to advocate the abortion of handicapped children and push us further down the path of genetic selection, where some lives matter less then others.
