(THE NATIONAL PULSE) – An examination by the New York Times has found that 85 percent of prenatal blood tests for rare chromosomal disorders provided false positive results to expectant mothers. On average, only 15 out of every 85 tests came back with accurate information on their child’s genetic make-up, potentially leading many mothers to abort perfectly healthy children.
The article describes a series of case studies of expectant mothers who received normal ultrasounds, but were told shortly after that blood tests confirmed their children would be born with serious ailments and mental illness. These mothers then had to either pay for additional testing to confirm the results, give birth to a child who may not live, or choose to kill their unborn children before birth.
More than a third of mothers across the United States may have been told, falsely, that their children would be born with syndromes like DiGeorge, 1p36, Cri-du-Chat syndrome, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, Turner syndrome, and Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes. In the case of Prader-Willi syndrome, 90 percent of positive tests were false.
