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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are ignoring that the 1/19 statistic is at age 45 when most women can’t get pregnant with their own eggs anyway.  There is not a sharp increase in risk at age 35.  It’s a gradual increase over the years.  [/quote]

Exactly, and this was my point. For older women, the biggest issue is even getting and staying pregnant, it is not birth defects. And even on the subject of birth defects, age isn’t the only factor. If 95% chance of success isn’t high enough , then is 97%? 99%? 99.5%? Why is a couple of percentage points a deal breaker? Even young, healthy women have children with birth defects, so there’s always a risk. And having a birth defect already puts an offspring at higher risk too - should a deaf person not risk having children? What about a blind person? Surely being deaf or blind affects a child “for a lifetime”?

I am not arguing that birth defects don’t matter and women should “go ahead and risk it!” I’m saying the risks, overall, while higher, are not statistically significant. Most pregnancies in older women end in miscarriage, often very early on, because nature takes care of all those defects on its own the majority of the time.[/quote]

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