Prenatal autism test may deliver ethical questions

I had not heard of this before...

Caitlin O'Neill is a happy, gurgling baby, an adored third child to her parents and the centre of her brother Gabriel's world.
She's also one of the most closely monitored infants in Australia, as researchers attempt to define a screening test that could point, even before birth, to a likelihood of autism.

These are [ethical] factors we need to start discussing out in the open 

Its developer says such a test would raise ethical challenges if it prompted parents to terminate possibly affected foetuses.

http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/prenatal-autism-test-may-deliver-ethical-questions-20120904-25c2g.html