Amniocentesis
by Jina Moore
Aug 15, 2022
2 minutes
Fetal cells from amniotic fluid in culture. Photo by the Wessex Regional Genetics Centre.
Our cultural script on pregnancy insists on certainty. Whether the authorities are doctors or majority-male legislatures, we are assured that humans know — that we know how to know — what pregnant people should eat, whether growing babies are getting big enough, when they can live outside their mothers’ bodies.
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