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Title:Genetic testing/why isn`t it happening where it matters?
Name:Shelley
City: State: Canada
Two babies lost to Tay Sachs, and yet more pregnancies. While reproducing is a mitzvah, surely doing genetic testing before arranged marriages happen should be part of the mitzvah also?

Why are the Chabad so cruelly behind the times?

I know of cases in the Orthodox world where birth control is sanctioned by a rabbi. Is not a couple like this to be encouraged not to have so many children?