Prof. Morris also obnoxiously kept referring to terminating a “Down Syndrome pregnancy” (as she termed it) as “a woman’s decision”, “a woman’s pregnancy”, “a woman’s ability to raise a child with disabilities”, etc. From listening to her, I would have deducted that “Down Syndrome pregnancies” are the result of women becoming pregnant without having to resort to contact with the male of the species (aka fathers).

What an insufferably arrogant woman and another example of why doctors are increasingly the worst enemies people with Down Syndrome can have.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter to the fetus if the decision is informed or uninformed — it still ends up dead!

If you aren’t willing to accept anything less than the “perfect” baby, you’re really not fit for parenthood.

For those who have chosen to terminate their own child based on the chance that he/she would have Down syndrome — you don’t know what you’re missing.

Most women who get the diagnosis of a child with DS in utero, are married and older parents. This is a child that they planned or at the very least warmly welcomed. It is not possible to want a child, and then get a DS diagnosis, and call it an “informed” decision. No mother, who wants a child, would willingly take the child’s life, unless they are completely uninformed. Indeed, it is a vicious circle.

What came first, the lack of respect because of the diagnosis of Down syndrome, or is the dignity for their lives decreasing, since a bleak picture is painted in the womb. A vicious circle indeed.

We need to be honest, and stop thinking that this abortion rate has not affected our children who are actually born. And all of the deaths due to this ignorance, is just the saddest statistic of all time.