Truth Inspires

The news of the death of Jennifer Morbelli and her late term aborted child is one piece of news that breaks my heart.* With all the PR that surrounds Prenatal Gene testing the media would have us to believe it is the best thing since sliced bread, but, sadly it is not. I was reading an article on it at NYTimes.com and was shocked to see that the gist of the article placed the testing and possible “False Positives” for abnormality far above the doubting and emotional concern that results from trusting the imperfect test results; possibly forcing the killing of a child: The new technique still requires fetal cells to be obtained either by amniocentesis, i n which a long needle is stuck into the womb, or by another invasive procedure called chorionic villus sampling, in which tissue is taken from the placenta. But instead of then examining the fetal chromosomes under a microscope, a DNA-sensing chip is used to detect abnormalities too small to be seen. A big conc...