[Ammi]

Originally Posted by NingleBells

what is? that downs syndrome kids can have a good quality of life? It completely depends on the severity of it but the way they are is their normality. I know plenty of downs syndrome people who are capable of doing plenty on their own and are very happy people.

Thats true, as with lots of disabilities, people can still live a happy and fulfilling life within their restriction, whatever they are. But we are talking about people that 'are' as opposed to terminating a pregnancy. Imo there are so many thing to be factored in but it seems to be a pro/anti termination thing, regardless of whether it is a disabled child or not. Perhaps if the tests where not available and therefore the parents would not know until the child was born then they would (hopefully) cope and be the sort of parent the child needs - in an ideal world. I mean we all think we wouldn't be able to cope with lots of things, then they happen to us and we do cope. As I said before I spoke to someone who has a DS daughter and she didn't know beforehand so she had her daughter and is a brilliant parent - but had she known she would have terminated. This is a really interesting topic