Unfortunately, there ARE doctors like this. I personally had no less than THREE of them pressuring me to have an abortion because they were convinced my baby was dead or dying (with no ultrasound or any other diagnostic method taken) and I was "miscarrying".
I took it up to the head obstetrician and he sent me home. The bleeding stopped, and four days later we heard the heartbeat on the doppler.
One of the doctors approached my husband a few months later to ask how I was. Husband said I was ready to deliver. "That wasn't supposed to happen!" was the doctor's incredulous response.
If he had his way, my precious daughter (normal in every way) would not be here, and my granddaughter wouldn't be either.
That doesn’t sound like the same thing at all, i.e. not the same as being eager to terminate Downs pregnancies that are otherwise proceeding normally. If you were bleeding heavily, and they thought you were clearly miscarrying, they probably were quite reasonably concerned for YOUR life. Hemorrhaging to death as a result of natural miscarriage is not all that uncommon, if medical treatment, i.e. surgically completing the miscarriage and stopping the bleeding, isn’t undertaken promptly. Can doctors make the wrong call in a situation like this? Sure (though it’s telling that the HEAD obstetrician wasn’t so sure). But a doctor’s goal in a case like that is to avoid death or permanent physical harm to the mother (and, of course, resulting career-ending malpractice suits), in a situation where it appears very unlikely to them that the baby will survive either way.