My wife and I would dearly love to adopt another child. We have several friends and some family that have Downs kids. Despite their learning disabilities, they are without exception the nicest, sweetest kids I have ever seen. It just burns me up when I see this wanton destruction of another innocent human life.
Downs is no walk in the park.
Her fetus was not affected with Down Syndrome, it was triple-X. And while I don't object as you do to parents choosing to abort for Downs, which inevitably results in significant mental retardation and life-shortening physical defects, triple-X females have no physical problems (just tend to be on the tall and slender side, but that's hardly a defect) and usually have low-normal intelligence (i.e. they are not retarded). They mature normally and are fertile, and unless they've been tested for chromosomal abnormalities, usually nobody knows they have one -- they're just tall and slim and not particularly smart. In other words, they have no characteristics which couldn't just as well appear in a chromosomally normal female. So it's pretty hard to grasp what this couple's reasoning process was. If it was that essential to them to have a baby that was as perfect as possible under current technology, why they heck didn't they do IVF with preimplantation genetic diagnosis?