drawls a small amount of amniotic fluid for cell analysis. Women may also opt for the somewhat riskier procedure of chorionic villus sampling (CVS). In CVS a small amount of chorionic villi (hair like fringes of the placenta) are removed by either using a catheter to pass through the cervix to the womb, or by inserting a needle into the abdomen. But with the progression of prenatal diagnosis occurring earlier and for a wider range of conditions we are likely to see more women using genetic testing for various reasons.
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             Some of the genetic disorders that can be detected before birth include Cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Fragile X syndrome, Hemophilia A, Huntington's disease, and Sickle-cell anemia.
             In Hi-Tech Babies a book on alternative reproductive technologies Gary E. McCuen looks at what might become common place in the future of genetically constructing babies. "Soon it will be technically possible for a young couple in their desire to have an unblemished child, to take several of the woman's ova fertilized in a test tube with the husband's sperm producing several embryos with different genetic combinations. The embryo with the most desirable genetic traits would be implanted in the woman to produce a pregnancy" (31). McCuen accurately predicted in 1990 what is a normal process today. Princeton University biologist Lee Silver who's book Remaking Eden addresses the process known as in vitro fertilization, the process of making test tube babies states; "When it was introduced it was horrifying to people and most said they would never use it even if they were infertile. But growing demands make it socially acceptable and anyone who's inf...