Prenatal tests could save lives

The trauma of having a miscarriage is something that must be faced by one in five pregnant women in this country every year.

Annually, there are 14,500 miscarriages and the awful truth is that some of these could have been prevented had tests been carried out to establish the causes of previous miscarriages.

Unfortunately, the practice in this country is to carry out such tests in women who have had three successive miscarriages. Consequently, such a policy causes women to endure a third miscarriage, which might possibly have been avoided.