Reply #56: While I Do Not Think It Totally Appropriate

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to post the names of people I know who on the world-wide web, I will tell you that I do in fact know several (and it is more than three or four) real live people who do beleive that it is an act of compassion to abort unborn babies who will be born with birth defects, such as Downs Syndrome.

Although I do not know these people personally, I recall reading about a case in the Washington Post a few years ago where a mother and father were suing the ob/gyn who had delivered their child -- a child who, as it turns out, had Downs. The case alleged that the ob/gyn had failed to run all the necessary tests to detect for Downs during the pregnancy, and that if the parents had known that their unborn child had Downs, the parents would have aborted the child.