- We can't stop prenatal testing from happening, but I think that we can be open to the fact that there's lots of gray here, and there's lot of need here to provide good information to patients and families who are navigating this without a lot of background, and what they're being asked to consider. And I think that those partnerships are really a hope for the future that medical providers can do a better job of communicating and sharing those perspectives with families that are in the midst of grappling with how these technologies are fitting into their own lives and to be a resource and to be partners in the way this information is communicated. We can say, there are people, and we've been at conferences with people who say we should be doing whole genome sequencing on every young couple and we should be screening their embryos for every genetic condition, and we should be trying to eliminate all genetic disease. And then you've got people who say we should never be doing any prenatal testing at all, and I think we have to grapple with the reality of kind of this in between place of how do we support what's reality for so many people? And oftentimes being offered tests that they don't understand what they're about, getting results that are not always certain, that can provide some unclear information. Like how do we support those families to make sense out of all of this and how that's gonna fit into their own lives and what that means for their family? And I think that can be best done by us.



- Absolutely, and I think that is the point that we can get the majority of people to agree on is that families deserve to have that full spectrum of understanding about disabilities. And I think that is the common element where everyone is able to agree on that. And I guess my kinda final thought to you is that it's important doing this work to identify those allies in the medical community who are striving to be better and to be actively engaged because sometimes when there are challenges that arise, there have been many times when we have spoken together and raised concerns, and so, when you have those allies in your corner, when issues come up, you can work together to try to find the solutions and to advocate for the solutions, and I love that. I also love that there is that ultimate common ground of making sure that families are getting that full spectrum of information.



- Absolutely, it's the best thing we can do.