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It doesn't say the baby didn't have Downs. It said the doctor found no "visible" signs of Downs. At 20 weeks, just looking at the fetus might not reveal obvious signs of Downs, even though it was present, and would certainly not reveal signs of the most severe (and very common) complications of Downs, namely major heart and digestive tract abnormalities (which often result in death in utero). However, careful measurements of ultrasound findings can reveal a small, medium, or strong likelihood of Downs, and if this couple went ahead and chose to abort just on the basis of that, instead of first confirming via amniocentesis which provides the actually chromosome information, then they must not have wanted a baby at all, Downs or no Downs.

The story claims this happened only 5 years ago, and the technology to confirm Downs with 100% certainty had been readily available for quite a number of years. The fuzzy "feeling" the alleged father claims his wife had, that "that something was wrong, in addition with the child other than just Down’s", tells me that believing the baby had Downs (despite not bothering to confirm this medically) wasn't the real reason this couple chose to abort. They didn't care whether it had Downs or not, because the mother had already decided, for whatever reason, that she didn't really want the baby anyway.