"USNews.org" The Ultimate Source of US News & Information Nationwide - Home Page>article>in the first, doctors treat fatal genetic disease before birth. In a first case doctors in the US and Canada used a novel technique to treat her before she was born for a rare genetic disease that caused the death of two of her sisters. The doctors treated her in vitro, before she was born against Pompe disease at ottawa's children's hospital. She is now a healthy happy 16-month-old. This is a very good reason why genetic testing of parents before they have children is a good idea. Both parents would have to have the recessive gene for a child to be born with this disease. In time hopefully other genetic conditions can be treated this way and reduce the number of they term abortions.