kid had some sort of problem and finding out later all that worry was wrong, or aborting the fetus because it was too scary. yeah, well, thank you for having me to talk about this, i think it is a really important subject, so i m glad it s being brought up. a couple of things are important in what you said, in the article. one is that it is important to remember that these are screening tests, right? so any time you do a screening test, we identify many people as flags for followup, many of whom turn out actually to be perfectly fine. so that is just the nature of the beast. i think the challenge is, with these prenatal tests that have added very, very rare abnormalities, even a small inaccuracy becomes magnified when a condition is rare. i think these tests are actually extremely accurate for things like down syndrome and some of the other chromosome problems that are more common, that are