Do you think prenatal testing and counseling should be mandatory? Be sure to support your responses.
Prenatal testing and counseling are very important in pregnancy. Most pregnancies result in healthy babies. However 3 to 5 percentage of babies are born with birth defects. For this reason all woman should do screening and diagnostic tests during their pregnancy to determine whether they are at risk to have baby with certain types of birth defects.
Prenatal genetic counseling helps to get more information about an inherited condition, what causes it and how the family can adjust to it and plan for future. Genetic conditions are generally caused by changes in genes. Through proper counseling all needed screening and diagnostic tests can plan accordingly.
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