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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand why anyone would think a 15 week ban is a good idea.  Just on a purely practical basis, women don't get decent ultrasound information about the viability/physical condition of the fetus until 18-20 weeks.

Having carried a child to birth that had a significant defect, (50% chance of surviving to 5 yrs), it's really crucial for women to have that information, and to make decisions based on that information.  To be forced to carry a child to term knowing that the child may die before birth or thereafter is forcing that woman into psychological trauma.

But, I guess men don't understand the timing of pregnancy info.  [/quote]

I agree. As someone going through the process now, if someone didn’t want to be pregnant, they would have aborted before 15 weeks-I can see that. The law is punishing those women who actually want to have a baby and are in the process of genetic testing, and devastating have to make a decision about whether to keep or terminate the pregnancy due to complications. It’s not an easy decision. And that information isn’t even fully available before 15 weeks. It may be if you hit all your appointments at exactly the right time. But if your OB practice is backed up or you bump up against back to back holidays or cannot make your appts exactly on time due to work or other commitments, you are SOL. [/quote]

I think you’ll see an increased focus on early testing, with private insurance companies starting to pick up the cost for more sophisticated and earlier techniques. These tests will be cheaper than allowing a woman to deliver a profoundly disabled child after a high risk pregnancy. I think you’ll also see an increase in risk averse people aborting just in case, before any of the more definitive tests are back. Poor women on state programs will continue to suffer, of course, but if taxpayers in those places want to pay for the substandard care of thousands of disabled kids in the foster care system I’m happy to let them pay that price. The key is to make sure they can’t go a single day without being reminded of it and what they could have had for themselves and their children under a more sane policy. [/quote]

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