The Eugenic Annihilation of Children with Down's Syndrome

[Ironside]

Just to chime in here- I think in vitro fertilization is morally wrong for more or less the reasons you give. They fertilize a bunch of eggs, use a few and discard the rest.

I'm pretty certain that those born through in vitro fertilization prefer to be alive.

Downs syndrome is not as disabling as people are making it seem. I really want to hear what you would say if people aborted their children who they believed would be gay. It's their choice? What about sex selected abortions in other countries? Is that their choice as well? Nobody has answered those distinct questions, unless they wanted their generically callous response to be the standard.

Some say that their may be a God gene. Should parents select out those who have it? Those who do not? The question can apply to everything.

Personally I wouldn't like it and would like to see a societal pressure against it, but I wouldn't forbid it, as the law would be useless and still too dominant in practice.

Now it's your turn, if the parents could avoid it before it even came to the fertilised egg, would your opinion change on any of the matters? Would you still maintain "life is sacred" if the child would be born in constant terrible pain and die after a few years?
Would any of your oppinions change if the embryo could be genetically "fixed"?