If a woman’s attitude toward a fetus she’s carrying is that she just “wants to get rid of it fast”, it’s extremely unlikely that she would have undergone the preliminary ultrasound and blood test screening for Downs. If a woman IS having those screening tests, then it’s because she wants a baby, but just doesn’t want one with Downs. And if she does want a baby, and isn’t completely retarded, then she’ll realize that getting accurate information about what went wrong with this baby improves her chances of being able to have a healthy and genetically normal baby in the future.
Of course, since I don’t believe for a second that any woman in this country is being advised to abort based only on a preliminary Downs screening, the question is somewhat moot. I know plenty of women have post-abortion genetic testing when the cause of major and obvious fetal abnormalities leading to the decision to abort was unclear. But in cases where Downs was the only reason for the abortion, the chromosome testing would have been done before the abortion, so there would be no reason to repeat it afterwards (though occasionally it might be repeated if the aborted fetus showed signs of other abnormalities in addition to Downs).
Not everyone who aborts Downs fetuses is doing it out of selfishness and a belief that people with Downs are by definition more trouble than they’re worth. I used to communicate with a woman on a message who had a baby girl with Downs, even though the fetus had appeared perfectly normal on ultrasounds all the way through the pregnancy. Her doctors saw no reason to do chromosome testing for Downs, and were totally shocked when the baby was born. Not surprisingly, given the lack of abnormal ultrasound findings, the girl is on the very mildly affected end of the Downs spectrum, and her mother adores her, certainly doesn’t regret having had her, and is knocking herself out getting the best therapy for her and trying to ensure that she reaches 100% of her potential. However, when the mother got pregnant again about a year after this first baby was born, she did get full testing for Downs, and felt she would not carry another Downs baby to term (this one turned out to be a normal little boy). Her reasoning was that she couldn’t possibly give her existing daughter all the care she needed and deserved, if she had another infant with Downs, especially one more severely affected. And she was concerned about providing for her daughter after both parents were gone, as the girl is very likely to outlive her parents. High quality care is expensive, and must be paid for out of private funds. Medicare-only care for aging and disabled people with Downs is not high quality. And this woman and her husband did not anticipate having the means leave sufficient financial assets to cover high quality lifelong care for two children with Downs. Bottom line was she wouldn’t have carried a second Downs baby to term, because she didn’t want her Downs daughter to end up spending the last years of her life in some miserable Medicare-funded nursing home.
You really do believe that it’s ok for humans to play God, don’t you? You must have no faith. I feel very sorry for you.