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Harold Schwartz, MD
Millburn, NJ

JAMA. 1975;231(12):1229.

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To the Editor.—

I wish to reply to Dr. Fred Rosner's letter in the May 13 issue of THE JOURNAL (228:829, 1974) regarding amniocentesis for Tay-Sachs disease.

Dr. Rosner does not speak as a doctor for the obstetrician-gynecologist, pediatrician, psychiatrist, or for the geneticist. He speaks only for a small segment of Orthodox Jews, and I can refer him to Birth Control in Jewish Law by David M. Feldman:

Mental health risk has been definitely equated to physical-health risk. This woman who is in danger of losing her mental health unless the pregnancy is interrupted, therefore would accordingly qualify.¹

The majority of the Jewish houses of worship in Baltimore took part in the massive screening for Tay-Sachs disease and, not too long ago, this was repeated in a Union, NJ, synagogue.

We can only pray for the future that possible enzyme replacement may solve this and other sphingolipidrelated diseases. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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