For every 3 babies found to have Down Syndrome using risky test procedures, 2 babies die who don't have it.
Prior to submitting to risky invasive testing like amniocentesis or Chroionic Villus Sampling (CVS), women are screened through blood tests or ultrasound. 95% of those test results are actually wrong. But many of these women will go on to have the invasive tests, risking miscarrying healthy children.
Read about this new study just published in Britain.
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