I'm with tiny as in 'I just don't know', regarding the issue with the story with the boy with Down's syndrome and the couple abandoning him.
Of course it's a very sad story, but I am wondering if the world has been told the whole story, or if some details have been left out to make the story more interesting.
It is very easy to condemn the couple, but they might have said right from the beginning that they did not want a child with Down's - as so many others do! Twins obviously complicate everything, but surely there was/is a contract in place (I'm assuming, maybe a bit naively) to address every possible scenario. I just wonder if there is more to this whole story than we know.
As for myself - I really don't know what I would do, should I be pg and get the diagnosis of Down's. Being given the high risk after the combined screening, we got very close to that last time, but any attempt of discussing what we would do, should we get the news that the baby had Down's, failed - DH and I both felt that we couldn't just hypothesize, we needed to know for sure first.
In the past, I always have been quite categorical to say that I would not continue a pregnancy with a Downs diagnosis, whereas DH was at least willing to consider it.
But now we have had DS and the 4 mcs, it's almost as if our positions have changed. In the run up to the CVS, I was quite willing to consider continuing, whereas DH now feels that it would be unfair to DS... Which I completely get, and agree with! We are both in our 40ies, and it's quite likely that DS will have to fend for himself at quite a young age (ironically, one of the reasons we want another!). So it seems unfair to increase his burden...
On the other hand, I kept thinking, what if I terminate because of Down's, and DS then asks us in a few years 'Why did you do that?! Because of me?!' - that would break my heart. It is just so unpredictable.
In spite of all that has happened, I am glad that we did not have to make that awful awful choice whether to continue or not.
I am, however, still quite certain that, if anything other than Downs was found, I would not continue a pregnancy.
Friends of ours had their second DD last year, and she has been diagnosed with a condition that means high-grade disability/special needs, severe developmental issues and low life expectancy. Their daughter will never walk or talk. It is utterly heartbreaking, and my heart goes out to them. But even they say, had they found out about this at any point during the pregnancy, they would have terminated.
So yeah, I just don't know... I think that cases like these can't be compared to one another, it really needs to be looked at on individual case-by-case basis. It is definitely a 'I'll cross that bridge when I get to it' from me.