This report is about broader prenatal testing that could sharply reduce the number of those born with the genetic condition. Before this year, pregnant women order than 35 will accept test to see if their fetal had the extra chromosome that cause Down syndrome. But parents can make sure the diagnosis only at birth. According to the newest suggestion from American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors will offer a new, safer, screening for all pregnant women, and offer an opportunity for parents to choose. 

The members of support groups believe that this can force parents to search information. However, some of they also worry about a lonelier world for those children which means lock of early medical intervention, new expertise in infant heart surgery, public schools. 

Parents who have Down syndrome believe that “It isn’t about abortion politics or religion, it’s a pure ethical question.””If all these people terminate babies with Down syndrome, there won’t be programs , there won’t be acceptance or tolerance.” They still working out the best strategy solve this problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=ba38bfa305a3ac0e&ex=1180065600
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