In such a non-standard way, the country is trying to reduce the number of abortions.
– There will be a girl, – the ultrasound diagnostician told me confidently at the 12th week of pregnancy.
– Boy, – just as confidently said another uzist at the second screening at 20 weeks.
And not only said, but also showed the main “argument”.
Yes, all over the world, ultrasound is the main way to determine the sex of a child. A prediction made at least 4-5 months is considered reliable. But how many examples we know, once the umbilical cord is mistaken for manhood, then the girl actually turns out to be a boy who so cleverly “hid” a certain part of the body …
Now in the West, in particular in the UK, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is being actively introduced, which is considered a breakthrough in prenatal screening. In fact, this is a routine blood test for a pregnant mom. Only now, it is not standard platelets and leukocytes that are examined in it, but … the DNA of the placenta, which has been circulating in it since 9-10 weeks.
On the one hand, this is a very good deed. After all, the new method allows with high accuracy in the early stages to diagnose fetal pathologies, including Down, Pattu, Edwards syndromes. This means that no more punctures of the amniotic membrane and no risk of miscarriage. On the other hand … and this is an ethical question.
The fact is that, in addition to pathologies, this test also perfectly determines the sex of the unborn child. And artificial termination of pregnancy without medical indications is done up to 12 weeks. Do you understand this terrible logic? No? Let’s explain in two words: selective abortion.
According to the British The Telegraph, this testing was often offered to couples in private clinics precisely in order to determine who lives in a woman’s tummy. And if, for example, there is a girl, and the couple really wants a boy … Now, do you understand?
“We fear that some clinics are performing abortions on the basis of gender,” members of the Government Council on Bioethics sound the alarm. – Therefore, we believe that it is necessary to prohibit the use of placental DNA analysis for these purposes. And leave this screening method exclusively for parents with a high risk of pathologies.
At the same time, experts noted that such “discrimination” more often applies to girls. Rarely does anyone go for an abortion, having learned that there will be not a daughter, but a son.