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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Opps, not sure why the link didn't come out right
[url]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199909)19:9%3C808::AID-PD637%3E3.0.CO;2-B/abstract[/url][/quote]

Couldn't get the article, but I though the abstract was interesting.  It doesn't say that 90% of babies with DS are aborted, it says that 90% of mothers who receive a prenatal diagnosis of DS abort.  To me that's a huge difference.  Pregnant women who wouldn't terminate a pregnancy for DS may be less likely to get amnio in the first place.

It's also interesting to me that, according to the abstract, in the 80's the abortion rate for babies diagnosed in utero with anecephaly was lower than that for DS.  There's no question to me that anecephaly is a more devastating condition.  I imagine there are probably few women who would terminate for DS, and yet would carry an anecephalic baby diagnosed at the same gestational age to term.  I assume the difference is because of how the two conditions were diagnosed at that time.  DS was only diagnosed via amnio, whereas anecephaly shows up on routine ultrasounds.  Presumably the population who gets each test accounts for the difference.[/quote]

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