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More than 25 years after amniocentesis first was offered to a few high-risk pregnant women, prenatal genetic testing has become so widespread that at least half the pregnant women in the country will have preliminary genetic tests this year. ... Each day, genetic tests allow women to learn that the children they carry will be born free of disorders from Down syndrome to hemophilia. But they also mean that, each day, a growing number of parents face the agonizing responsibility of deciding whether their children will be too disabled, too retarded or too chronically ill to be born at all. And with new genes discovered every month - there now are prenatal tests for at least 200 inherited conditions, perhaps 10 times as many as when testing began - opportunities for both relief and agony only grow.
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