What is your point?
Do you think that some lives are more valuable than others?
Do you think foreknowledge of a potential problem exonerates a person for choosing to kill their own offspring?
At what point is a person not a person? When is it OK to cull the herd?
my point is simple. The woman in the article is selfish and stupid and I have no sympathy for her feigned insult.
She refused genetic testing - both before and after conception - despite being told she was in a high-risk group. Her husband wasn’t offered testing either - evidenced by his surprise over the child’s physical appearance. Did she even show him the sonograms? or did she refuse them, too?
No pre-conception genetic counseling, no marriage counseling, no financial preparations, no home modifications, no therapists lined up, no psychological preparation. Completely irresponsible behavior for a 40 year old woman. Just a big fat, deal with it - to both the child and to the husband.
Do I support abortions of convenience? No. But I do support the 2% of abortions that are performed for legitimate reasons and I’m sure other pro-lifers do, too.
Do I think all Down’s Syndrome children should be ‘culled’ as a convenience? Absolutely not.
But I think both parents need to be involved in complicated pregnancies, not just one parent, because that child will be the financial and emotional responsibility of both, not just one, parent.
The woman in the article intentionally left her husband in the dark and left her doctor in the dark, to the detriment of her child. She is selfish and stupid.