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Screening for Down's Syndrome |
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The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recommended that all mothers should be offered screening for Down's Syndrome, not only those at greatest risk (Times, Oct 03). A mother who lost two (normal) babies to the tests wrote (Times, 24th Oct 03): "I don't envy the next generation of mothers who are to be offered Down's syndrome routinely. They will be sitting in clinics listening to doctors solemnly outlining the implications, delivering the results... In some cases they will have agonising decisions to make, whether to have a test, whether to have a termination ... Tom would be 13 by now. Sorry, Tom."
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