“The Hardest Decision I Ever Had to Make” That’s how this woman described her decision to terminate her third pregnancy when genetic testing revealed that the fetus had Down syndrome. She soon became pregnant again with a male fetus that had the normal 46 chromosomes; her two daughters also had the normal number, and so will her fourth child, not yet born when this photo was taken. Many personal factors influence such decisions. Do you think she and her husband would have made the same choice if they had no other children?
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