[fidelis]

My wife and I have known many women who at around age 40 decided they wanted to have a baby. Even the most pi0us of those would likely to choose to have an abortion rather than facing a future of spending their elderly years trying to take care of a young adult with Down’s Syndrome.

I have grown child with a learning disability to the extent that he will never be able to live on his own. The core issue is that pre-born DS children are already human beings. When is it right to deliberately kill a helpless human being that you have conceived because they will be inconvenient to you?

[fireman15]

I have no argument with what you have said. But the vast majority of people when told that their recently conceived progeny has down syndrome will choose to abort and try again. That is just a fact with especially with older people currently hoping to have children in our society. You are free to condemn this if you choose especially since you and many others chose to keep them even before they were born.

[awelliott]

When is it right to deliberately kill a helpless human being that you have conceived because they will be inconvenient to you?

I'll take "never" for $200, Alex.

The No Abortion Left Behind crowd always tries to advance by arguing cases on the margin, i.e., rape, incest, birth defects. Life is difficult, often unfair, and full of tough decisions; and they realize that they can manipulate the emotions of many by such tactics.

In reality, the argument is really quite simple, and it boils down to a single question; is an unborn baby a distinct human life or not?