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Prenatal testing can be valuable even if you decide against abortion. Often there are treatments that are most effective when started early, so it can help alleviate or prevent symptoms of the disease. I'm not sure if this applies to Down's, but it can't hurt to know to watch for specific conditions so that you can give your child the best care possible.

As for the demographic concerns, I'm all for diversity, but I can't see any situation in which a society is better off for having people with Down's. A multiracial society has greater genetic diversity than a single-race society, which gives a greater chance of resistance to disease, changing living conditions, etc., but Down's people don't reproduce; their genetic diversity can't be tapped for society's benefit. Besides, if a cure for Down's were developed, it would have the same demographic effect as aborting Down's fetuses. Would eliminating the condition from society via a cure be wrong?

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.