This is a serious concern. My wife and I refused the tests for down syndrome while she was pregnant; we knew we would have the baby either way. The doctor actually lectured my wife on the irresponsibility of having a child with Down Syndrome and tried to persuade her to test, so as to abort in the event of Down’s.
To make matters worse, the blood test has quite a high false positive rate! So, in the event of a positive, if you do not immediately abort, a more invasive test in utero is performed, which actually carries a chance of miscarriage as a side effect of the test itself! All so that you can kill your child rather than be bothered by Down Syndrome. It made me furious.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1125biz-genetest1125.html
This is another interesting story on this.Some of the comments are pretty shocking .
How badly did you beat the doctor?