Jun 2011 02
Q&A: Why is the devil doctors trying to make my “friends” have a down syndrome baby test?3
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Question by Johnelle Fairytail: Why is the devil doctors trying to make my “friends” have a down syndrome baby test?
The doctor said “would you abort if the baby had down syndrome” they said yes. So they rang the clinic who said “It is $ 200″. Hmm, so they pay $ 200 for a “indication” of down syndrome, with a one in 400 or something chance.
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Answer by Fireball
that is why cuz they said yes….too bad they have conditions….all kids need love
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It costs money to take the tests and use human labor. Im fairly sure churches ask for more money fairly often.
As the second to answer stated, these tests cost money, and not every insurance plan will cover them.
With that said, my niece had testing done, with the results coming back that my great-nephew would have Down’s syndrome. She chose to continue the pregnancy, and the baby is healthy, perfect in every way. Something for your friends to keep in mind.
I don’t know the exact reason why this doctor would “make” your friends have this test. My own doctors never forced the issue, asking only if I would consider having my children tested, so that if test results showed a potential problem, we would all be better prepared at the time of birth. I chose to forgo testing, knowing that I would keep the child no matter what, and that I could not handle months of worry.
Many insurance companies will cover chorionic villus sampling to rule out Down syndrome (trisomy 21), but the results are not conclusive. They are just sampling cells from the placenta. They will often follow inconclusive results with an amniocentesis later in the pregnancy. Many procedures are based on insurance and the physician’s unwillingness to be liable for a ‘wrongful birth’ should the parents sue. Unfortunately when your friend said she would not want a Down syndrome child, now she must go through all the medical procedures to try to ascertain the condition prenatally. (She will risk higher infection and miscarriage rates now also).
Down syndrome risk is mostly based on maternal age, so if your friend is 35 ish the doctor was just giving her statistical averages.