Would you terminate?
 

Prompted by an Emmerdale storyline - If you found out you were pregnant with a baby with Downs Syndrome, would you terminate the pregnancy?

Males - Would you want your partner to terminate the pregnancy?

yeah

I wouldn't ever have a baby, but of course not.

If you plan to have a baby then the parents should know that anything could happen and if you're not willing to accept what might happen then don't make a baby.

Yep definitely. I wouldn't want a disabled baby or a baby with any condition like that.

Yes Early Termination is Fine and Legal.
I back it.

I would have to actually be in that situation to know for sure, but I think there is a good chance I would terminate

As a Male, I would personally be against any termination of a child but having said that,I would not be the person carrying the child, the female would be.

I would therefore hold my own counsel on the matter and give 100% support to any decision she made,it must be heart wrenching for any woman in that position and unless I was asked with insistence to say what I thought and felt,I would rather with no hesitation whatsoever support and be at the side of totally the person I was with.

no i wouldnt i dont agree with abortions personally anyway but even if i did i wouldnt just cos of the child having a disability i would love it no matter what

I would have an abortion.

Yes I would, I dont think I'd be fit or willing to raise a disabled child tbh, and all the difficulties it causes for both the child and the parents

Tough one really

I wouldn't want my Partner to terminate but i'd understand if she wanted to, bringing a child up with's Downs Syndrome would be so much harder and it would take so much getting use but saying that at the age i am now i would want her to terminate i don't think i would be ready for it but in another 10 years i reckon i would be much more up for it

I would have the same view really.

i often do

I dont agree with that view at all, the father and the mother should have equal say over the fate of their child imo

You also have to consider the operations and trauma a child with Downs may have to go through too. Bear in mind they are often very will with heart problems and such like. Is it fair to put them through that too? It's not only the parents who 'suffer' (if thats the right word to use)

Dont agree with abortion apart from situations like this. I think its the lesser of the two evils, if you let it live its purely for your own conscience or selfishness. I know they can lead OK lives but they'll never have normal lives and they'll always be ridiculed.

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No, I dont think I could terminate tbh.

I could never have an abortion,no matter what was wrong with the baby.

i think killing your baby just because it has some disability is murder plain and simple

its no different than after birth seeing it has an illness and thinking oh cant cope with that and killing it

even if you cannot look after it yourself you can give it up for adoption

When I was pregnant I refused the Downs test. I accepted what will be will be. Fate will decide what happens. My OH wanted me to have it though but as the test back then ran a high risk of miscarriage I said no

No I wouldn't.By the time you find out whether your baby has Downs Syndrome, you have already felt your baby move inside of you. I just couldn't.