Would you terminate a pregnancy if the pre-natal test was positive for DS?

[Cold War Liberal]

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents were told that I was going to have down syndrome and abortion was put on the table. My mom chose not to terminate the pregnancy.

I was born without down syndrome.

If the fact that people with DS are people is somehow not enough, the fact that testing isn't accurate should be.

I am not against abortion. I am against abortion solely based on some possible negative disorder that the fetus may or may not even have.

[Cold War Liberal]

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents were told that I was going to have down syndrome and abortion was put on the table. My mom chose not to terminate the pregnancy.

I was born without down syndrome.

If the fact that people with DS are people is somehow not enough, the fact that testing isn't accurate should be.

I am not against abortion. I am against abortion solely based on some possible negative disorder that the fetus may or may not even have.

What reason do you think it's acceptable to terminate a pregnancy, then?

Let me be clear: I'm saying (or trying and possibly failing to say) that someone who wants a child and plans on carrying the fetus to term but then is faced with the possibility of having a baby with DS should not have an abortion solely based on that diagnosis due to it possibly being incorrect. If this hypothetical person still went through with an abortion, then I'd support her right to do so, even if I objected to her decision on moral grounds.

[Cold War Liberal]

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents were told that I was going to have down syndrome and abortion was put on the table. My mom chose not to terminate the pregnancy.

I was born without down syndrome.

If the fact that people with DS are people is somehow not enough, the fact that testing isn't accurate should be.

I am not against abortion. I am against abortion solely based on some possible negative disorder that the fetus may or may not even have.

What reason do you think it's acceptable to terminate a pregnancy, then?

Let me be clear: I'm saying (or trying and possibly failing to say) that someone who wants a child and plans on carrying the fetus to term but then is faced with the possibility of having a baby with DS should not have an abortion solely based on that diagnosis due to it possibly being incorrect. If this hypothetical person still went through with an abortion, then I'd support her right to do so, even if I objected to her decision on moral grounds.

Sure. But, to you, in what situation, then, is abortion not morally objectionable? Only accidental pregnancy or rape etc.?

I don't really like abortion all that much. I'm not one of those who think it's murder (a fetus is not a person) but it has this quality about it that makes me slightly uncomfortable if it's not a fetus conceived of incest or rape or if the abortion isn't to save the mother etc. I wouldn't say that all abortion is "morally objectionable" to me but it's not exactly something I love. I'm much less OK with abortion after the fetus is viable, but that rarely ever happens, and if it does, it's almost always to save the mother, which is fine to me.

Every person has different morals. There's overlap, of course (most would say murder and rape are wrong, for example) but on things like abortion it's contentious. I wouldn't want other people forcing their morals on me with legislated equality (that would make my life as a gay man even more unpleasant than it already is) so why should I do the same to other people, especially since I'm a man and thus couldn't even have an abortion if I wanted to? I'm pro-choice because I don't want to take a woman's right to choose what she wants for her own body (the rights of the actual human being that is currently alive supersede the "rights" of the lump of cells that may or may not one day become a human), even if the choice she makes is one I disagree with. As R2D2 said in a post above:

If you're pro-choice, or claim to be, you have to be comfortable with the notion that some women will make the difficult decision to terminate pregnancies under circumstances you don't necessarily agree with.