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In his letter printed June 8, 2014, Alistair Pullen discusses the fact that the advent of prenatal testing has helped transform pregnancy from a time of joy to a time of fear. He discusses his wife's pregnancy with his first daughter, in which prenatal testing revealed the existence of a disorder that was incompatible with life. As a result of the testing, Mr. Pullen and his wife chose to induce labor, resulting in their daughter being stillborn at 20 weeks of age. In their three subsequent pregnancies, prenatal testing helped reassure them that their children were healthy. While Mr. Pullen believes that prenatal testing helped transform the early periods of the pregnancies into high stress events, but that the high stress helps parents avoid something that is even more stressful; the birth of a child with a disorder that is incompatible with life.
I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with Mr. Pullen's proposition that prenatal testing increases stress during pregnancy, but contributes to an overall reduction in pregnancy stress. Mr. Pullen and his wife chose to terminate a pregnancy after determining that the developing fetus had a condition that was ultimately incompatible with life. As a result, his conclusion that prenatal testing has the capacity of reducing stress...
At this point in time, this is a position held by roughly half of Americans, though evidence about termination rates when fetuses are actually diagnosed with serious disorders through prenatal testing suggests that these numbers may be much higher.
My concerns about prenatal testing are directly linked to these termination rates, because of the fact that parents are choosing to terminate children with disorders that are neither incompatible with life nor linked to low-quality of life, like Down syndrome. Advocates for people with Down syndrome suggest that society is losing something by terminating children with Down syndrome. At the same time, these same advocates suggest that society needs to make adjustments and changes to be more accommodating to those with Down syndrome. It brings to mind Greg Narbey's question, "How much accommodation or acceptance must majorities extend to minority groups, and when is accommodation or acceptance unreasonable?" (Narbey, 2009). The complex issue that arises from this scenario is: does the answer to this question change when the minority is a group that may be eliminated…
References
Narbey, G. (2009). Can we all just get along? In C. Cockerton and M. Chaparian (Eds.), The
Human Project, 5th Edition (pp. ). Canada: Pearson Education.
Pullen, A. (8 June, 2014). To the editor. Retrieved June 15, 2014 from The New York Times
website: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/opinion/prenatal-testing-along-with-the-worries.html?_r=0
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