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If you catch the problem at conception, the easiest way seems to be to abort and try again.


That is fair, and indeed, there are a bunch of genetic disorders that can (and are) screened for prenatally, see:

https://women.texaschildrens.org/program/high-risk-pregnancy...


Lydia's father here. If I wasn't fighting this fight, my fight would be to push for prenatal exome sequencing. I acknowledge it's not as black and white -- there are some ethical concerns about how to process the data, but give the parents the choice.




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