MotherofTen - how on earth could a mother of ten children not be prolife? Just out of curiousity, did you receive immediate support from a local DS organization??? We have a great association here in Cincinnati, and the immediate support they provided to us was overwhelming. IMHO, the support they provide to expectant parents often can be the difference in whether or not the family decides to abort the baby. And for parents like you that have the ton of bricks dropped on them shortly after birth, the local DS organization is also a Godsend.
For those of you that are also prolife, if you're ever looking for a worthy cause to support, check out your local DS organization. I believe that they are often responsible for preventing the abortion of DS babies. Speaking from personal experience, abortion may sometimes seem like an appropriate option to parents that learn their baby has DS - even for parents that would otherwise not consider abortion and/or desparately want a child. But, the intervention of the local DS organization can often show them that their child will still be the light of their lives, and that they can indeed handle the additional work it will require. Also, in many parts of the country there is a waiting list of parents willing to adopt children with DS.
I don't know if you're aware of him or not but Doctor Jérôme Lejeune, R.I.P. was the Parisian geneticist who discovered the gene for Down's Syndrome.
A brilliant man and premiere geneticist, he also was an ardent defender of Human Life from the moment of conception. In the New Jersey Loce case, wherein even Mother Teresa submitted an amicus curia brief to no avail, he actually appeared in court to testify.
His accomplishments, works and defenses of Life from conception to natural death make for an excellent read ... particularly when you consider that most in his position (studying defects) might come to the opposite conclusions entirely.
Anyway ... here's an interesting excerpt from his testimony in Loce, as printed in The Human Life Review: Doctor Jérôme Lejeune, R.I.P.