There is nothing wrong in getting tested. Termination or no termination at least the mother will have time to decide and prepare. Ethics my a*s. Science is no fluke, It takes time and lot of money to develop better testing procedure with lots and lots of dead ends. Nothing comes easy or perfectly. Most of the times best solutions, are not ideal solutions. (Sorry went a little off topic)

life is not black a d white is gray. my grandparents force my mother to married because she was pregnant of me , she blame me of her misfortune life my father was an alcoholic . she beat me sometimes for no reason , one day she was really mad and yell at my face " i was going to abort you and you grandma dont let me. " i was neglected and beat. i dont have a relationship with her. people should judge a woman to have a child people should't judge women choice of an abortion because you cant force someone to love an unwanted child.

Well, this is for everyone to decide for themselves. I would choose an abortion, without question. A child with down syndrome is nature's way to show this one was supposed to die. Sometimes mistakes happen, mutations etc. Down syndrome is a mistake, these things happen. For some reason people insist on not seeing them as a mistake. They close their eyes from the truth and pretend they can live a normal happy life. But there is nothing dark or brutal in dealing with this matter as a realist adult who sees the truth.

I don't know why would people think just giving a kid existence is such a chivalric thing to do. Life doesn't matter a dime if it's not productive ND enjoyable. I m not saying this for down's in particular. Just talking about life in general. If the kid can have a life with it, it's good. But so many lives are wasted like this. Don't think about what you can do for the child, instead think can he have a life that he can like ND would want to live. Nobody can be there for anyone all the time. Besides nobody wants to be a burden or a cause of pain to the people they love.

I'm pregnant now, and had a genetic screening done that tests for 13 different genetic disorders and syndromes, down syndrome being one of them. Fortunately, the results showed that my baby is at low risk for all of them, but I had the testing done because I don't know much about genetic disorders, many of the ones they screened for, I've never even heard of before. If the screening had said we were at risk for one of them I would have had a lot of reading and research to do so that I could provide the best chance for my child. Personally, I feel like that's a parent's job, regardless of a child's abilities, or disabilities, it is a parent's job to equip them as best we can so they can be the best person they can be.

What's sad is that American women are stupid and brainwashed into thinking that they cannot make the compassionate decision to avoid bringing someone who is doomed to a life of suffering into the world. Maybe mothers of Down Syndrome children don't want to lose their sainthood status as it becomes common knowledge that they could have possibly prevented their child's life of misery in the first place.

It's not really eradicating downs syndrome, more people are just having abortions. It's still occurring in babies

your child being sick is "the best thing that happened to you"? seriously?

Nobody can eliminate Down syndrome. They eliminate children with Down syndrome. And it makes a difference.

I personally have never become pregnant. I have avoided it very carefully and, fortunately, never even had a worry of being pregnant. That is my choice. I find it disingenuous that people are judging others based upon what they choose to do with their own reproduction. Do I think it's sad and awful that people abort babies? Yes. Do I find it even more sad and awful when they choose to do so based upon a genetic abnormality (sorry, not sure what to call it here) ? Absolutely. It's horrific to me. That said, it's not my business. Abortion is legal. Specific abortion based upon genetic testing is legal. A lot of things I find distasteful are legal, and we simply cannot legislate morality. That is a very slippery slope - in both directions.

I have a DS daughter. She has had many difficulties but I never considered her a burden!! I had to grow after she was born. She taught me more about unconditional love, patience, forgiveness, compassion, and honesty than anyone or anything in this world could have. Her siblings learned about these things and protected her fiercely from any wayward comments or actions. I made the most difficult decision of my life when I found a positive group home for my daughter in her adult years. She is very happy there and feels her "independence". She is absolutely still part of our family, but she will not have to suffer being left alone after I die. In my opinion, terminating a pregnancy due to the discovery of DS is throwing away a gift of great worth. Sure, raising a child with any disability is more "work", but the rewards are beyond what can be easily defined. It wasn't what I expected my life to be...it was well-worth the extra effort.

Terminating the existence of everyone with an illness (not sure that's the right word) is not the same as eradicating it. Eradication is done with something like vaccinations that ensure no one ever gets polio again. They are not stopping anyone from having Downs again. What Iceland is doing is closer to the equivalent of killing everyone with polio and going "there, we've eradicated polio". Although in that case it might be effective to stop the spread. Downs Syndrome isn't contagious and , as far as I know, not inherited. So it is completely random and therefore can not be eradicated, just those with it can be. Saying it's up to the mums is not really true either. In a society where no one else has a child like that, it must be very hard to imagine bringing your own into it.

In the Philippines, from my knowledge, children borne with DS to those with Chinese blood consider them lucky. I have seen many Phil-Chinese families take care of their children with DS as they believe their business will prosper due to that child with DS. For me, having a child with DS or terminating the fetus really depends on the decision of the parents, the lifestyle they live, the future that they want and the mindset the parents have. Personally, I won't mind having one as long as my will remains positive all throughout my life and based on the way how Phil-Chinese families raise their children with DS I believe these children with DS won't hinder my prosperity for the future.