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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sounds like flying too close to the sun. You have two perfect kids - why risk having a complicated pregnancy or a kid with disabilities?[/quote]

OP here. I am comfortable terminating if the prenatal results come up problematic. Which leaves only autism, but we have no one on the spectrum at either side of the family.  DH is a couple of years younger than me. [/quote]

This is really a conditional way of thinking.  If you are only ready for a child if he/she is perfect, then don't do it.  You can't diagnose every issue in utero.  And just as important, you cannot predict how you will feel about terminating a pregnancy for a bad diagnosis.  You are already longing for a child that doesn't exist yet.  Can you imagine living rest of your life grieving/wondering about a child that did exist briefly and the what ifs?  And questions of the accuracy of that diagnostic? [/quote]

I don’t question science. When a test is genetic and tells me with 100% certainty what is or is not, I believe it. 
Children don’t “briefly exist.” Embryos and fetuses do. 
I terminated a chromosomally abnormal pregnancy in the past and don’t have any regrets.
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That's nice for you, but no test is 100% accurate. [/quote]

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