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Originally Posted by blahblah454
I know a lady who was pregnant and they told her that her baby was going to have down syndrome, the husband wanted to get an abortion and she did not. they ended up keeping the child. The child was born perfectly healthy. The tests are not always right, and after reading this thread there are several other cases where the doctors have been wrong.
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Yeah, I've read in several newspaper articles (not journal articles) that the initial Down's tests are wrong in 20% of cases... that's pretty high, if true. I think the amniocentesis figures are more accurate, though I don't have an exact figure.