Knowing sometimes isn't better

An article I stumbled across the other day talked about how a doctor claims to have developed a miscarriage test for pregnant women.

Read it here.

The doctor said that if a woman is at risk for a miscarriage, he can proceed more carfully to try to save the baby. Of course, nothing is ever guaranteed. And  science has proven that miscarriages occur because of a genetic abnormality or poor implantment to the uterine wall. So, my question is, how is this going to help? Are we playing God again by trying to control the outcome? Would more women abort the pregnancy prematurely because a test shows that she could have a miscarriage?

No matter what, I wouldn't abort only because tests are wrong all of the time. As hard as it might be, nature has a way of taking care of things. Here's an example: OB-GYNs perform a test of the fetus at 16 weeks that shows whether the child will have cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation and a host of other problems. Of the four women I spoke to, three had positive results. And all of their children had and still don't have any of these problems. So, the moms were distraught for no reason.

Maybe I'm ignorant, but I'd rather wait until the child is born to know the road ahead of us. Knowing or think that you know isn't always the best thing.