[Pflienews] PFLI E-News Update: Prenatal 'Testing' not Mandatory and is Usually 'Search and Destroy'

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 9 Sept 2008 AD
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Prenatal 'Testing' not Mandatory and is Usually 'Search and Destroy'

MEDIA ADVISORY, Sept. 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Karen L Brauer MS, RPh, 
President of Pharmacists for Life International, submits the following 
and is available for comment:

In a routine internet search for the news, I followed a link to a 
fascinating recent New York Times article "Palin fuses motherhood and 
politics in a new way". The author, Jodi Kantor, carefully avoided the 
more obvious abuse of Sarah Palin by the media, concerning her ability 
to simultaneously serve as mother and public official. However this 
quote caught my eye: "In just a few months, she has gone from hiding her 
pregnancy from those closest to her to toting her infant on stage at the 
Republican National Convention."

As a pro-life mother, I feel it's my place to explain to reporters 
another significant reason why a woman, sharing my beliefs about 
abortion, might conceal a pregnancy when there is an untoward fetal 
diagnosis. Each time a mom like us mentions that her preborn child has 
been diagnosed with a disability, she risks hearing the suggestion that 
she ought to abort.

This suggestion might come from co-workers, friends or even family 
members. With it comes a piece of information that we'd rather not know: 
someone we care about believes that it's OK to kill a baby prior to 
birth. It's a sad bit of news, each time it happens. Even having a few 
kids in rapid succession as I did, later in life, can bring this kind of 
information.

But moms who obtain a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome are expected 
to abort, and, unfortunately, 80 to 90 percent of them actually do.

I dodged most of the problems of prenatal diagnosis and the information 
it could have brought about people in my life. I refused the 
alpha-fetoprotein tests each time. It was necessary to sign a release 
form since physicians (including those who don't perform abortions) need 
protection from the lawyers of patients who later change their minds. 
Obstetricians are real lawyer-bait.

Other pro-life moms might want to consider this. Prenatal testing isn't 
mandatory. For now, it remains your "choice" whether or not to have it. 
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

/Karen L. Brauer MS, RPh is president of Pharmacists for Life 
International, the most fully pro- life pharmacists organization. Find 
our politically incorrect site at http://www.pfli.org. Pharmacists for 
Life International truly makes no profit and the officers and staff are 
volunteers./

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	To: National Desk

Contact: Bogomir Kuhar, PharmD, FASCP, Pharmacists for Life 
International, 740-881-0150



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