ACCTG412 Study Guide - Sequenom, Antonia Zerbisias, Prenatal Diagnosis
26 Nov 2014
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Reminder: liberal eugenics: laissez-faire approach to gge. For instance: parents decide whether to access prenatal testing and selective abortion: agar"s worry: individual parental choices in marketplace of gge may squeeze out some life plans. Kaposy on maternit21 : introduction of this test into the marketplace could. Rate of prenatal testing for down syndrome. Rate of selective abortions: these developments are morally objectionable. Because of maternit21 canadian women can hop across the border for it fears are that, like smallpox and polio, down syndrome could be wiped out. Claim #1: maternit21 is an improvement over previous methods of prenatal testing. Non-invasive prenatal test (nipt: safer than alternatives: (non-invasive screen + invasive test) More accurate that previous non-invasive prenatal screening: probability vs. (near) certainty. Test is intended for use in pregnant women at increased riskfor fetal aneuploidy . , prenatal testing is available only when it is requested, and when the pregnant.
