Sentence examples for use of prenatal testing from inspiring English sources
Adrienne Asch, an internationally known bioethicist who opposed the use of prenatal testing and abortion to select children free of disabilities, a stance informed partly by her own experience of blindness, died on Nov. 19 at her home in Manhattan.
Yet a study a few years ago concluded that women who do not make use of prenatal testing or who choose to keep pregnancies they know will lead to children with disabilities "were judged more responsible, more to blame, and less deserving of both sympathy and social aid subsequent to giving birth to a disabled child than were women to whom testing was not made available".
The combined use of prenatal testing and selective abortion precedes the HGP by several decades.
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of genetic counseling and the use of prenatal testing and PGD on the occurrence of DMD and BMD in the Netherlands.
Here, younger participants were more likely to support the use of prenatal testing (χ (2, N=200)=7.16, p=0.021; 50.5% vs 39.4%), although this result did not meet our stringent level of significance.
This indicates that the DMD families are more aware of their increased risk and have made use of prenatal tests to prevent the birth of a second affected boy as is shown in Figure 3.
Already, NIPT is used for both types of prenatal testing: not just to screen for common autosomal aneuploidies, but also for determining the rhesus status of fetuses of RhD negative women.
For several years most developed countries have offered both types of prenatal testing for DS: 1) the combined first-trimester screen (non-invasive), and 2) prenatal diagnosis using amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) (invasive).
My mind leaps to the possibility of prenatal testing.
Serum aneuploidy screening is less accurate in twins Garchet-Beaudron AA et al. Prenat Diagn 2008 28 1105 9), data on use of noninvasive prenatal testing remains limited (Canick JA et al. Prenat Diagn 2012 32 730 4), and the risk of procedure-related miscarriage following invasive diagnostic testing is not well documented (Agarwal et al. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2012 40 128 34).
In the context of sex selection, illegal use of noninvasive prenatal testing would have to compete with the easily available ultrasound technology.
