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This morning on Good Morning America, they featured a company called 23 and Me. The company sells DNA testing kits and offers a service where both women and men can test their salvia to generate an individualized DNA report. The way that the segment was introduced and the emphasis of the conversation was based on the idea that this kit can help parents discover potential ailments and hereditary diseases that their child may inherit.

I am curious to hear your feedback regarding this and all of the many preventive/genetic testing out there. Do you agree that eventually one will arrive at the point where too much information is just that, too much? I hear many alarming stories of couples being persuaded to test for everything disease under the sun and watch their stress levels surge at all of the possibilities. Is all of this worrying before birth really necessary? Do you think that all of these tests and kits take away from parents’ ability to fully enjoy and embrace their pregnancy or enable parents to do so?