According to a pregnant woman who was interviewed while she was waiting for the results of a test to determine whether or not her baby would be handicapped:
“I was hoping I’d never have to make this choice, to become responsible for choosing the kind of baby I’d get, the kind of baby we’d accept. But everyone, my doctors, my parents, my friends, everyone urged me to have an amniocentesis… and they all told me I’d feel more in control. But I guess I feel less in control. It’s still my baby, but only if it’s good enough to be our baby, if you see what I mean.”
R.Kapp “Real-Time Fetus: the Role of a Sonogram in the age of Modern Reproduction” in G.Downey , J. Dumit , and S. Traweek , editors “Cyborgs and Citadels : anthropological interventions into Techo–humanism ” (SAR: University of Washington press, 1995)
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