Genetic Choices: Prenatal Genetic Testing Technology has not made huge advances in recent decades. When women became pregnant, not as many tests were performed then as there are now. Expectant mothers can now see 3D/4D images of their unborn baby and undergo genetic testing to see if their baby will have anything wrong with him. Tests are now done to see if a baby will have Down syndrome or Tay-Sachs, which can now be checked after 10 to 14 weeks, and doctors can now check whether the unborn fetus will have illnesses and disabilities before the baby. he was even born. This is called prenatal genetic screening. It allows doctors to take a small sample of blood or tissue from the mother and doctors can then test for deformities, diseases and mutations. Once the test results show that something is wrong with the unborn fetus, the mother can decide whether she wants to have an abortion or not. There are many benefits to prenatal genetic testing, but at a certain point it becomes morally wrong to eliminate unborn children because of their defects. “Prenatal genetic testing checks for genetic disorders by looking for changes in a person's DNA” (Childress 519). Doctors take a small sample of blood or tissue from a patient and can test for genetic mutations that might appear in their child. For prenatal genetic testing, the doctor or mother wants to “determine whether a fetus has genetic abnormalities that could cause physical or mental impairments” (520 Vaughn). If a mother is over 35, she is more likely to have a child with Down syndrome than a mother in her 20s. Genetic testing is also performed when hereditary genetic disorders are present in the family history or... at the center of the article......it.Works CitedChildress, Kelly Dahlgren. "Genetics, disability and ethics: could applied technologies lead to a new eugenics?" Genetics, Disability and Ethics (2003): 157-174. Edwards, S. D. "Prenatal Genetic Screening for Intellectual Disability." Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 47.7 (2003): 526-32. Print.Garrison, Vyckie. Disability, prenatal testing and treatment for a moral and compassionate abortion. August 16, 2012. March 2014.McMahan, Jeff. “The Morality of Screening for Disability.” Ethics. Reproductive Healthcare Limited, March 2005. Web. 01 April 2014. .Vaughn, Lewis. "Chapter 9." Bioethics: principles, problems and cases. Second ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. 518-37. Print.Zallen, Doris. Confronting science: the dilemma of genetic testing. Mar/Apr 2014. February 2014.