cyber-"terrorism"?

[Casper Dik]

>> In one particularly nasty case, the maternity clinic system at a
>> Sheffield hospital miscalculated mothers' ages and failed to order
>> amnios for mothers in the highest-risk group. When the bug was
>> discovered, 150-odd women - by now well advanced in pregnancy - had to
>> be recalled for urgent amnios.
>
>> At least four Down's babies were born as a direct result of the Y2K bug,
>> and at least two women had to have distressingly late terminations.
>
>No, they were born because their parents, knowing the risk, chose to
>conceive them. I make no comment on the ethical position of conceiving a
>child with the view that, if it's pre-natal development does not produce
>some desired perfection, well one can always destroy it. The only point I
>would make is that the exemplar children were not conceived or born as a
>result of Y2K but as a result of some complex of matters unrelated to Y2K.


I am surprised that the system relies on computers calculating the
mother's age.  Surely people are aware of ages and the associated
risks.  I'd assume that people over that age having children would know
and ask the doctor for the test.

How many people did have an amnio even though they weren't flagged
by the computer because they knew they better have one?

Casper