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There's something I'm not understanding here: If my spouse and I do the tests and find out there's a 25% chance our child will have a particular health problem
by troymc 14y ago
There's something I'm not understanding here:
If my spouse and I do the tests and find out there's a 25% chance our child will have a particular health problem, what are we supposed to do about it? Adopt? Roll the dice anyhow?
In the article, there's a couple that did the test then decided to do in vitro fertilization (IVF), but I don't see how that helps. It seems to me that any offspring that arise from IVF are going to have the same probability of having the health problem. What am I missing?
- jdale27 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnos...
- cycrutchfield 14y agoThere are a couple of steps that a carrier couple could take in that situation: * IVF-PGD (like the couple in the article): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnosis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnos... * Use a donor egg or sperm * Adoption * For certain diseases like phenylketonuria, which are not life-threatening if certain dietary restrictions are followed, the pregnancy can proceed as normal but the baby can't be fed anything with phenylalanine in it.