PGD: An Alternative
We are the parents of a little boy with a rare, life-threatening, enzymatic disorder. He inherited this condition through genetic mutations passed along to him by us. Caused by a recessive genetic defect, neither of us is affected in anyway as we are simply "carriers" of this disease. Once we were determined to be carriers, however, we learned that should we conceive another child naturally, there is a 25-percent chance that we will have another affected child. It had always been our plan to have more than one child. However, as we began to discuss the possibility of having a second baby, we both realized that given the physical, emotional and financial costs of being affected by this disorder, we were not comfortable with consciously bringing another child into the world without doing everything we possibly could do to avoid this for any other child.
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