Humanity never ceases to amaze with the medical advances it achieves year after year. In the past, it was impossible to believe that DNA could be extracted from the baby in the womb. Today it is possible to perform DNA testing while pregnant as early as the 7th week of pregnancy and without putting the baby’s health at risk. In simple terms, what the laboratory does is extract the baby’s DNA from a sample of the mother’s blood. In order to get this blood sample, the labs have created DNA home test kits that you can purchase online from the lab’s website and have delivered to your home. The kit includes everything you need to take a blood sample and send it back to the lab for testing.
What are the benefits?
Knowing the DNA allows laboratories to perform several tests. One of them is paternity testing. If for some reason, you need to know if a man is the father of a child, you can get the sample you need from the baby through the mother’s blood. With the baby’s DNA, you can also find out the baby’s gender. In some situations, DNA can be used to find out if the baby is completely healthy or if it is developing some kind of mental or physical health problem. Many of these problems can be corrected if addressed while the baby is still in the womb because that is when it is in the developmental stage. In summary, DNA opens the door to many types of testing, offering reliable results.
The legality of the results
The results of a test can be used as a means of information or as part of a legal trial. If they are used as a means of information, the results will have no legal validity, as they are only useful for the people who performed DNA testing while pregnant. However, if you need to use the results in a legal process related to the paternity of the baby, you must follow the laboratory’s instructions to the letter. It is important to emphasize that these indications guarantee that the judge will accept the results. If the chain of custody of the samples is broken, the results of that test will be inadmissible in court and you will have to pay again for another test. Although it may seem obvious, it goes without saying that DNA home test kits are not admissible in any court of law.