I spent the last four months of my pregnancy resisting heavy pressure to undergo dangerous tests, the results of which would not have changed anything for my baby, since there still exists no prenatal treatment for Downs Syndrome.
Was my “normal baby” just a lucky fluke? Was her healthy, normal birth a miracle? She is my miracle, but even had she been born with Downs, she would still have been a miracle to me, personally.
Setting aside my personal spiritual beliefs, I often wonder if I could have resisted the not very subtle medical and social pressure to abort, if I had faced the same situation a decade or more earlier, instead of as a mature 36 year old woman, who had endured five miscarriages.
We may never know if as a result of someone reading this thread a choice is made to continue a pregnancy that was in question, but it is certainly possible.