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drum wrote:

LordRaven wrote:

drum wrote:

Stooo wrote:It's an extra chromosome mate, it's not about much else.

It must feel like you're labelled as a sub-species if you have Downs, anyone who has had any contact with someone who has the condition knows that sometimes it's skin deep and the allowance of abortion up to the time of birth is frankly medieval. Older parents are most likely to have kids with Downs and there is an invasive test that may cause miscarriage that can determine it if you're in a risk group so why would you carry to full term just to destroy the foetus just before birth?

There are many conditions that don't present themselves until birth or some time after, my own son was a year old before we knew what his disabilities were, for many conditions there are no tests.

Birth is still a bit of a lottery, I have a niece who had to go through the entire rigmarole of giving birth to a stillborn.

And I have a sister in law who wouldn't have any tests when pregnant, and she have birth to a child with downs syndrome --but she loves her no less.

I'm sorry that happened to your niece, that's a whole other trauma in itself.

LordRaven wrote:

drum wrote:

Stooo wrote:It's an extra chromosome mate, it's not about much else.

It must feel like you're labelled as a sub-species if you have Downs, anyone who has had any contact with someone who has the condition knows that sometimes it's skin deep and the allowance of abortion up to the time of birth is frankly medieval. Older parents are most likely to have kids with Downs and there is an invasive test that may cause miscarriage that can determine it if you're in a risk group so why would you carry to full term just to destroy the foetus just before birth?

There are many conditions that don't present themselves until birth or some time after, my own son was a year old before we knew what his disabilities were, for many conditions there are no tests.

Birth is still a bit of a lottery, I have a niece who had to go through the entire rigmarole of giving birth to a stillborn.

And I have a sister in law who wouldn't have any tests when pregnant, and she have birth to a child with downs syndrome --but she loves her no less.

drum wrote:

Stooo wrote:It's an extra chromosome mate, it's not about much else.

It must feel like you're labelled as a sub-species if you have Downs, anyone who has had any contact with someone who has the condition knows that sometimes it's skin deep and the allowance of abortion up to the time of birth is frankly medieval. Older parents are most likely to have kids with Downs and there is an invasive test that may cause miscarriage that can determine it if you're in a risk group so why would you carry to full term just to destroy the foetus just before birth?

There are many conditions that don't present themselves until birth or some time after, my own son was a year old before we knew what his disabilities were, for many conditions there are no tests.

Stooo wrote:It's an extra chromosome mate, it's not about much else.

It must feel like you're labelled as a sub-species if you have Downs, anyone who has had any contact with someone who has the condition knows that sometimes it's skin deep and the allowance of abortion up to the time of birth is frankly medieval. Older parents are most likely to have kids with Downs and there is an invasive test that may cause miscarriage that can determine it if you're in a risk group so why would you carry to full term just to destroy the foetus just before birth?

Stooo wrote:It's an extra chromosome mate, it's not about much else.

It must feel like you're labelled as a sub-species if you have Downs, anyone who has had any contact with someone who has the condition knows that sometimes it's skin deep and the allowance of abortion up to the time of birth is frankly medieval. Older parents are most likely to have kids with Downs and there is an invasive test that may cause miscarriage that can determine it if you're in a risk group so why would you carry to full term just to destroy the foetus just before birth?