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Re: Amnio statistics

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 6 May 2000 22:06:59 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 6 May 2000, Carolyn wrote: >
>While I understand that this is a somewhat volitile question, I'm
>wondering if there are any statistics on women, who chose to go thru
>amnios initially saying that they just wanted to know if there was
>anything wrong(with terminating not being an option for them), and when
>the amnio came back with a less than favorable result, decided to
>terminate the pregnancy.
>
>I cannot FATHOM a Dr asking a patient this before the procedure and I
>suspect that someone is offering false info on a newsgroup with regard
>to this subject (claiming that 80% of women who SAY they wouldn't
>terminate if there was a problem DO when an amnio shows a problem). To
>be honest, she's written this several times and I suspect she's pulling
>these statistics from...ahem...someplace more anatomically related then
>medically, but wanted to know if the Dr knew of some where I might
>dispute these "statistics".
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Carolyn
>

I'm not familiar with the stats quoted and am not familiar with any study proving or disproving the statement. Be interesting to know where these "stats" came from.

My patient s have been fortunate in that very few have had to contend with the conflict of religion or morality vs. an abnormal fetus so I can't give any wealth of personal experinece either.

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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