This is the reason we check for trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome) Quad screen at week 15-18; so we allow the parents a chance to abort the fetus. Why would you want to bring a mentally retarded kid into this world to continue the suffering. I have so many MRCP adults (like 30 yr down's, MRCP) in my clinic, bed ridden, wheel chair bound, PEG tube feeding, ventilator dependent. This is not quality of life, and not even sure if they are aware of the surrounding. It is sad situation; this can be avoided if the fetus was aborted early on. It is inhumane and unusually cruel punishment to put a human being through 30-40 years of shit quality of life, while it could have been prevented before they develop any sort of sense of surrounding, pain, or perception as the CNS is pretty immature at that early stage.
And please remember, many pregnancies with other genetic defect (severe enough) are auto-matically aborted in a process call spontaneous aborption; nature has build in a way for the women to not be able to carry the fetus to term in many other situation; it is just that Down's can usually survive, (or others like Edwards, Pradar-Willi, and so on). So aborption itself, is not a novel thing, the body does it all the time. The rate of spontaneous aborption is relatively high.
