The risk of miscarriage from amniocentesis is higher than the chance (not "risk") of having a child with Down's Syndrome.
Things are looking up in this wicked world, after all.
The discoverer of the chromosomal cause of Down's, the late Professor Jérôme Lejeune, was a stalwart of Opus Dei and of the global pro-life movement, and was thus a staunch opponent of prenatal diagnosis.
His stance cost him the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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