Reply #27: How so?

[AngryAmish]

In both cases the parents are maximizing their happiness. Most of the time the gender aborted is female. The parents are maximizing their happiness by having a boy. In many cultures a boy is more highly sought after than a girl (and in many cultures there is economic cumpulsions to only have a boy - see China).

The parents are also maximizing their happiness is aborting a Down fetus. They do not want to be going to endless doctor's appointments, physical therapy, surgeries to fix problems, special schools, etc. It is a drag and one will not have grandchildren that are considered "normal" (if at all, I do not know if Down folks are sterile or fertile). There is the heartbreak of having a child was is not "normal".

Just people maximizing their happiness in using their choice to abort or not.