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Woman says getting amniocentesis: it’s like playing God

Oct 29, 2020

By Sarah Terzo

From one patient who had an amniocentesis to find out if the baby she was carrying would be disabled. She intended to abort if anything was wrong with the baby:

“If something turns out to be wrong, maybe I’ll be happy I’ve had it. But in some ways, I wish it wasn’t available, I wish I didn’t have to know… I’ve had a couple of abortions before, so it isn’t that. But there’s something about this that’s like playing God.”

Rayna Rapp, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999)p. 117.

Editor’s note. This appeared at Clinic Quotes and is reposted with permission.

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