While the Americans with Disabilities Act says you cannot discriminate against those with birth defects, there are those “charities” and PACs that push for prenatal testing to determine with a baby should be aborted because of the “risk” of a birth defect. They call it a “quality of life” issue. You need only look at the rhetoric that said Sarah Palin was guilty of child abuse for giving birth to Trig.
I know a family with a son with Down syndrome. It has been difficult at times and heartbreaking at others, but they wouldn’t change having him as their child for anything. They recently got to watch him address an auditorium full of people as he received an award he had earned. I guess these people would have denied him and them that experience.