Why Is Prenatal Testing Wrong

Nowadays, due to improvements of medical technology, people can check fetus is growing healthy by using prenatal tests. Pregnant woman can take tests between 15th and 20th weeks of pregnancy. They help to detect any problems that affect babies such as Downs Syndrome, and genetic diseases and also help mothers to make the best decision. Some people however indicate that using prenatal tests is ethically wrong because it seems doctors and mothers do not categorize fetus as human being. Nevertheless, using prenatal tests has a lot of beneficial things for people by three ethical theory; rights, consequentialism, and informed consent. Therefore, I believe that prenatal test should be allowed all over the world.
Prenatal testing is ethical because mothers should have knowledge to make better choices about abortion during pregnancy. First, abortion should be mothers' choice because they should have rights to choose what to do with their own bodies by rights ethics. Nowadays, by taking prenatal test, mothers could know whether their babies have disabilities such as Down’s syndrome, or not and to be ready to welcome newborns. According to a 2012 University of South California review published in the medical Prenatal Diagnosis, 67 to 87 percent of mothers who learned their babies have Down’s syndrome …show more content…
First, because people have rights to choose, and to do anything what they want with their own bodies. Second, a research shows that the number of unwanted children will decrease by using prenatal tests. Third, if babies have serious disease such as congenital heart disease, and mothers and doctors already know about it, they can prepare what their babies need faster. If prenatal tests are done more often in the future, I expect that society will be better and the number of children who are really loved by their parents will dramatically increase. In these ways, using prenatal tests have a lot of benefit for