[teenyelliott]

Your value system may be very different, but I don't think it's fair to assume that everyone who chooses not to continue a Down Syndrome pregnancy is just a selfish jerk who's insisting on a "perfect" child as some sort of status accessory.

I am by no means a saint. But how can anyone look at the child pictured above and think that she is anything but beautiful? How does a mother just suck the brain out of her child, just because of Downs?

The people I have met who have Downs Syndrome are such peaceful souls. I would consider it a blessing to be given a child who has so much to teach all of us "normals".

[EternalVigilance]

Indifference

The executioner doesn´t scare me,
neither does the hate and torture,
not the groves of deaths riffle,
or the shadows on the wall.
Not the nights when
the last star of pain tumbles dowm
- but the merciless world´s
- blind indifference!

Halfdan Rasmussen
Danish poet