Sher­man has banned me from things that have too much sad real­ity today…I under­stand that.  In my cur­rent moody state (PMS peo­ple, not the other one) I do get a lit­tle nutso over things.  But I’m putting this up as a reminder for myself.

I know I don’t get too seri­ous on here, usu­ally its all my ram­blings, ran­dom thoughts, and the occa­sional rant, but some­times its more.

I just saw the head­line to this arti­cle and wasn’t sur­prised.  It’s not a judg­ment, it’s just that I wasn’t suprised at all.  This has hap­pened in other coun­tries before, why would the US be any different.

Down Syn­drome births are declin­ing, when tech­ni­cally they should be going up.  The avail­abil­ity of early test­ing for chro­mo­so­mal defects is often fol­lowed by a decline in chil­dren born with those defects.

It brings up so many questions.

It’s obvi­ous why this is the case.  The ear­lier the detec­tion, the eas­ier it is to decide weather or not to ter­mi­nate a pregnancy.

I’ve known sev­eral peo­ple who have got­ten these early tests.  I only got the later ones, which caused enough tur­moil for me. The tests are good, but not 100%, none of them are, so the deci­sions made around them are always dif­fi­cult.  The ques­tions are hard.  It’s a lesser of evils in a way, a whats worse type sce­nario.  These are tests that shake your morals, your logic, your faith to the core, because it comes down to the hard questions.

Is it right to bring a child into a hard world when their life can be more dif­fi­cult than anothers?

Are you capa­ble, basi­cally, finan­cially, and emo­tion­ally of car­ing for a child that may need more than average?

In your mind is every life equal, in every stage?

Is the 2% chance that every­thing is nor­mal enough?

What an amaz­ingly dif­fi­cult thing choice is.