{"id":67121,"date":"2018-01-11T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67121"},"modified":"2018-01-11T05:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T10:37:38","slug":"globe-and-mail-a-new-generation-of-prenatal-testing-raises-ethical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67121","title":{"rendered":"(Globe and Mail) A new generation of prenatal testing raises ethical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For about $800, an American lab would analyze the fetal DNA circulating in Ms. Owens&#8217;s blood and tell her as early as 10 weeks into her pregnancy if she was carrying a baby with the chromosomal anomalies that cause Down syndrome and a few other, less common, conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once I found out about this test,&#8221; Ms. Owens said, &#8220;I refused to wait until I was in my second trimester. I had to know right away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The desire of women like Ms. Owens to know as much as possible about their pregnancies as early as possible is behind a quiet revolution in prenatal screening in Canada and other developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>A new generation of simple blood tests is allowing would-be parents to learn about the sex and potential genetic anomalies of their babies in the first trimester, a stage of the pregnancy when it&#8217;s relatively easy to get an abortion in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/parenting\/new-prenatal-tests-for-parents-gets-mixed-feelings\/article37570374\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For about $800, an American lab would analyze the fetal DNA circulating in Ms. Owens&#8217;s blood and tell her as early as 10 weeks into her pregnancy if she was carrying a baby with the chromosomal anomalies that cause Down<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67121\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,207,168,104,114,96,98,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67122,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67121\/revisions\/67122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}