and I thank you for your extremely insightful reply. I know we "threaded" on this a while ago and I'm getting redundant. That said, I am not advocating any policy regarding abortion rights, etc. I still believe it should be the choice of the parents. What I do object to is that most parents are woefully uninformed on these issues when a diagnosis like this comes about, even assuming that they can be objective at such an emotional time.

I'm all about building awareness. I want to spare the 80% the guilt of not bringing some of these children to term because they were ill or misinformed about what many of these syndromes (Down, autism, MS, Cerebral Palsey, etc.) actually entail. In my heart of hearts, I know that had my wife had amnio done, I would have lobbied long and hard to abort my daughter. Go to [link|http://www.nd.edu/~dreck|http://www.nd.edu/~dreck] and check her out...

I find it extremely interesting as well that an event like this shows the humanity of even political hacks such as George Will, you know...