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.