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When genetic risks complicate the decision to conceive naturally

We are both carriers for a genetic disease and the doctors say there is a twenty-five percent chance of an affected child but we still want to try naturally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Known genetic risks create moral complexity about the responsibility to prevent suffering versus the right to reproductive autonomy.

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