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At First, I hope this will never happen to any of you, but just hypothetically asking : " If you and your boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife decided to have a baby, and you/your girlfriend were pregnant with a baby, and you knew that it has down syndrome, would you/would you tell your girlfriend to have an abortion? or you would keep the baby? Why? why not?

Discuss, and prove your points...

P.S. I just hope everyone knows what down syndrome is, if you don't you are going to have to google it if you wanna be a part of this discussion...

It's really the time for humanity to take a dump.

It all depends really.
It would depend on how able we were to take of of him/her and the recommendations of the doctor's at the time and how much risk was involved.
I would only consider abortion if the case was particularly bad, meaning it would be cruel to have the child. Otherwise I'd most likely want to keep the baby and take care of him/her.

I'm unsure to be honest, seeing as I'm no where near ready to be pregnant and don't really think that any feelings I have now will apply when the time comes. I can only imagine that once I'm pregnant I won't ever want to get rid of it, disability or no disability. I suppose it just depends what would be best at the time, for the baby mostly.

It would definitely take a discussion between me and my girlfriend to decide on what to do. My first reaction would be to keep it. But there are several factors that require further reflection and critical evaluation before we could make a decision on the magnitude of killing a thing that will be a human life if it's birthed.

I would suggest it, but I'm not the pregnant one so its not my choice.

yes; it deserves to have a life like anyone else.

I don't know. I'm not going into much detail but just going to say that multiple tests performed on me when I was still in my mothers womb said that I'd be a down syndrome baby, but I was born perfectly normal, so you never know. If you don't want to keep the child, put it up for adoption is what I say.

According to Psychology , you "CANT" tell "Yes i would " , "No i Wouldnt"

For Example , a Girl (13) says that is Against aborsion (in general) , a few months later she gets pregnant ... and she has to deal with it , yet ! Abortion comes to her mind...

What am i trying to prove? As long as we "Live" we gain some experience and we Learn new things about our selves , so we change ... according to what is going on around us and to our self.


Personally , i get very sensitive when i see people like that , in a way that i cant stand it and walk away ... because i cant stand to even stare to those people , WHY? because i get so Sad ... and so sorry .. and i DONT want them to see that in my expression.

Honestly, doctors make mistakes. I wouldn't trust anything a doctor says like that until the kid pops out of me. I'd never consider an abortion, no matter how hard it may be.

But you know, Down Syndrome kids are not totally pathetic either. It varies from mild to severe first of all. Second of all, I hung out with MR kids growing up. I saw not one of them who was bad off enough to die.
Shit happens, you're child isn't going to be perfect or perfectly healthy in every way. That's no reason to off it.

Even if it would be hard, I'd have the child no matter what. And I'd love them unconditionally like a parent should.

That being said, everyone said both me and my sister (mostly my sister) was going to have some defect (not Down Syndrome, but something else I can't remember the name of) and sure I'm not healthy but it's no defect and my sister is as healthy as a horse.

Until the kid comes out, you can't fully know for sure. Mistakes happen, and I'm not going to do anything just because there's a possibility it might happen.

How do i know this? because I'm me, and I know myself well enough to know what I would do in such a situation. I'm too stubborn to do anything but that anyway.

Like Gray said, we never know what we will do until we get to that point, it's all hypothetical until then. However it's sumthing that everybody who has sex should ask him/herself and even people who aren't sexually active yet. I am pro-life and so is my gf so we would keep the baby. Plus I know teachers who have downs baby kids and they seem like happy families.

honestly i would probably get rid of it. not to be mean, but i don't know that i'd be able to deal with something like that