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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have not been in your shoes but I feel for you.  My first child has special needs (cerebral palsy, due to a brain injury at birth) and I wonder what I would do if I found out another child was going to have SN too. [b] I am pro-choice but philosophically against abortion when the parents are not choosing whether to have a child but rather trying to choose what kind of child to have. [/b] But, I am realistic enough to know that that philosophy might not actually mean I wouldn't consider termination if I had bad test results for a future pregnancy.  After all this is one of the reasons I'm pro-choice--a choice about a pregnancy is incredibly agonizing and personal, and I dont think anyone else who is not her has the right to make that decision for her.

Anyway, my only advice is that I'm reading this book called Far From the Tree about kids who are significantly different from their parents in a variety of ways.  There are chapters on dwarfism, autism, schizophrenia, prodigies, multiple severe disabilities, Down Syndrome, and several other things.  It's very thought-provoking.  Anyway if you are looking for reading material I'd suggest looking at the first chapter and then the Down Syndrome chapter.[/quote]

I find this view point very common and I don't understand it at all.  So you are "philosophically" OK with a person acting irresponsibly, getting pregnant accidentally, and deciding to terminate a perfectly healthy pregnancy, but you are offended by a person who looks at the difficult life that would result from the birth of a child that will definitely have both physical AND mental impairment for its entire life and deciding it would be best to not go forward with the pregnancy.  This line of thinking makes no sense to me.[/quote]

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