If you’ve been pregnant in the last decade or so, you’ve already figured it out, I hope. But here’s a good article at Public Discourse on the prenatal testing industry. Key point: 99% of babies who test positive for Down Syndrome are aborted.
The antidote is Be Not Afraid.net – support for parents with poor prenatal diagnosis. Take a look. Keep in the back of your head. Easy to remember. Useful. Good.
I know someone who kept their baby despite the prenatal diagnosis of Downs and she delivered a perfectly healthy baby. I wonder how many of these babies are perfectly normal and getting aborted.
My first thought was: “That’s terrifying.” But I suppose it’s the flip side of the same coin. Parenthood is the decision that you’ll love your baby no matter what. Abortion is the decision that you reject the baby no matter what.
These cases like your friends’ are so tempting in an argument. To say “You might be throwing out a perfectly good baby and not know it!”. But it’s not “might”. It’s always a perfectly good baby that’s getting tossed.
[Not arguing with you. Not at all. Thinking out loud about what your story pointed me to.]