I want to have Sarah Palin's baby

Jewish World Review ^ | 9/19/'08 | Julia Gorin

[autumnraine]

I can certainly understand that rational for knowing, but I just didn’t want to know. I think I figured that the challenges would be there regardless and I was already nervous about it as it was.

I think it’s a matter of choice, but other than seeing those who have Downs Syndrome baby as “cruel”, I see them as heroes.

[Sherman Logan]

Everyone knows that chances of having a Down baby increase to 25% after age 40, so how could anyone doubt the baby belonged to 44 year-old Palin rather than 17 year-old Bristol?

I don't believe this is exactly correct.

Chance of a Downs Syndrome baby by age of mother:

17 - 1 in 1565

30 - 1 in 909

35 - 1 in 384

40 - 1 in 112

45 - 1 in 28

50 - 1 in 6

Odds get kind of scary out there on the end of the scale.

http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/DSA_detBackground.aspx?ba=0