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[quote=Anonymous]We make decisions based on odds.  Yes, any of my healthy children can have a horrible accident tomorrow that would require me to care for them for the rest of their lives.  And I would do that despite the difficulties.  But the odds are extremely low that that would happen, so it was a risk I could take.

When the fetus I was carrying was found to have T21, that was a 100% certainty.  And then 20% chance that if it made it to term (60% don't), it would die before age 4.  And then a  50% chance it would have a heart defect.  And then a much higher chance it would have leukemia, early onset Alzheimer's, and a whole host of other conditions.  Dealing with those odds is much different than dealing with the odds that your initially healthy child may some day develop special needs or have a debilitating accident.

And it is insulting to compare choosing to terminate a pregnancy due to a medical condition with making the decision based on "hair color."  Anyone who would say that has clearly never faced such a decision themselves.

Like a PP, I know a mother who raised a child with Down Syndrome who consulted with me about my decision, and I was shocked when she said that while she loved her child greatly, she understood my decision and fully supported it.  It is great that you all love your cousins/aunts/uncles/siblings and they have taught you a lot of life lessons, but it is a very different position to actually raise a child with DS into adulthood.[/quote]

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