Genetic Testing Quotes

“At the sight of my newly found family packed into my living room as if it were the most natural thing in the world, people I had only known a few months were gathered in my home on Christmas Eve, from four states and made up four generations.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“Could that test be the answer to some of my lifelong questions about who I was? Could I really get the answer about my ethnicity or where I came from? Would I find people I was related to?”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“It is because of this process, drawing near to God through prayer and through reading His Word, that I finally began to understand and accept that God loved me, for me.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“I was only six weeks pregnant but already found myself thinking about my birth mother and what it was like for her, knowing she was carrying a baby and was going to give her away—give me away. I couldn’t imagine what that must have felt like. I already felt so connected to my baby. For the first time, I found myself wondering about her.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“To this day I will never forget the exact words they used, but for the sake of staying on the G-rated side of things, let’s just paraphrase: no one must like me, especially my parents, since they “got rid of me.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“At some point in your life you will understand that girls and women are genetically predisposed to keep testing you. They are programmed by evolution to test and find out the right characteristics in a man. Don't take these tests seriously or get affected by them. Reassure the women that they are important and focus back on your goals.”
― Avijeet Das

“The time to change the narrative around newborn screening for genetic health conditions has come. “Different” doesn’t mean “inferior” or diseased. With stories of real lived experiences, parents, advocates and clinicians can revise the story with acceptance and hope.”
― Jennifer J. Brown, When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes