Prenatal Testing

I absolutely disagree with prenatal testing; I don't believe any good comes from it and I think it takes 'natural selection' to a completely different level. Therefore, I do not think prenatal testing should be routine for pregnant women.

The woman's' body is a beautiful 'work of art' and though we are able to understand a lot (probably more than we were ever supposed to) about ourselves, the majority of the how's and why's are beyond the realm of our understanding. Our body is coded to know when it needs to abort; when something is defiantly wrong with the embryo, our body aborts it. Why should we take this power into our own hands? So what if a baby is born and it doesn't fit our societies absurd definition of normal? That's what prenatal testing is for; why else would it be critical to have the tests done within the first 18 weeks? If the flood gate is opened; where would it stop? What would prevent an insurance company refusing coverage to a newborn with Down Syndrome, for example? Who would prevent them from classifying it as a 'pre-existing' condition? The mother knew about it when she 15 weeks pregnant.

I want to clarify that I'm not confusing this issue with pro-life; I'm a firm pro-choice. However, if a woman wants to abort a pregnancy I strongly believe that it should not be based upon some absurd test that could easily be a false-positive.

We're playing with fire and eventually we're going to get burned; Mother Nature gave us natural selection but it was never supposed to be in our hands. Why must we try to control everything? We're not supposed to know everything, so why must we try?