Why is it considered OK to ask or raise those questions to women with a baby with Down Syndrome, both while pregnant (Renate Lindeman, and many others) or after the baby is in this world (Pat Bauer, and many others)? Is it appropriate to judge or question a woman’s decision about her pregnancy, when we others do not “walk in her moccasins”?

Those questions were not asked to African American women just after slavery in societies with state-sponsored terrorism (that is, lynchings to preserve the stratus quo). They are not asked to women who are African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, immigrants from Mexico, Arab or Muslim American, in severe poverty, or in a lesbian relationship — whose children likely will experience the challenges of discrimination.

Should we deal with the challenges of Down Syndrome, or of discrimination or worse, by always ending the pregnancy? I prefer to try to reduce unnecessary challenges.

Thank you, Renate, Pat, and so many in this website, for helping to reduce such challenges.