Republicans push for an amendment that would ban abortion; even if the woman is raped

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Originally Posted by Jester

There was a recent case of a couple who sued for "wrongful life" because their daughter was born with Down Syndrome and had they known, they would have terminated the pregnancy. What's to keep people from eventually choosing to abort children based on any sort of perceived issue before birth? Does the choice to end a pregnancy become ever become wrong because the choice was made because the child won't be perfect, or is just plain inconvenient?

You can already detect some genetic defects such as trisomy 13 (patau syndrome, trisomy 18 (edwards syndrome) & trisomy 21 (down syndrome) in the first trimester- so who is to say that people aren't aborting when they learn of the genetic abnormality? and who is to say they are wrong if they do? roughly 80% of babies born with patau syndrome die within their first year and at least half of babies born with edwards syndrome die within a week, that is if you actually make it to term as many of them are still born. As for down syndrome, many can live relatively long lives but are prone to health problems, developmental delays and a slew of other problems that will be around for their entire life... and this syndrome i know for sure has seen an uprise in abortion when detected- one article said 90% of fetus' diagnosed are then aborted in the United States...