The Downs news story is very sad. I feel for everyone involved. As others have said, whilst the Australian couple do seem to have made a rather heartless decision, they must have been through a lot to be going down the surrogacy road, and to find out one of the babies had a chromosomal abnormality it must have been pretty tough. I read they discovered this at 7 months into the pregnancy, by which time the surrogate could not bear to terminate. Painfully hard all round. The surrogate did not sign up to be a parent again, and already has children to support - tough on her, however much she loves and cares for the baby.
As others have said, hopefully this will only be a blip for the use of surrogates, or ensure that all the legal documentation is very clear (wonder what the contract in this case said?)
Personally, I think there is no right or wrong when it comes to termination whether for social or medical reasons - there is just a woman,maybe a coup!e, maybe a family, trying to do what they think is best.
My second loss was a termination for medical reasons, and there was a week between finding out at the 12 WK scan that the baby was 80-90% likely to die in-utero, and the actual termination. Long list of problems at scan, with zero chance of any quality of life even if she made it to birth, which I very much doubt she would have done. I felt very guilty that I couldn't save/protect her (later found out it was a girl, and chromosomally normal),but also felt I was saving her from possible pain.I still think we did the right thing for us, but it was a very, very, hard thing to do.
A child with Downs may grow into an adult who has a job, relationships, friendships, and is reasonably healthy. Or they may not be able to communicate, have a limited quality of life, and serious health problems.
I don't know what I would do. In the case on the news it seems there are details we don't yet know, and the fact is that there is a little boy who needs lookng after.