End to Down Syndrome?

This article gives a lot of food for thought, but I just wanted to highlight this one paragraph which I believe challenges us to look at a culture that has embraced all of the elements that delay childbirth. What causes people to delay marriage and delay trying to conceive?

Could there be a future "cure" for Down Syndrome?

It used to be very clearly communicated by doctors that not only does fertility drastically start to drop past 35 yrs old, that it is best for a woman to first conceive prior to age 30. No one talks about this now and you won't find nearly as much information on the Internet about it. From what I understand, fertility clinics do not educate patients on the extremely increased likelihood of conceiving a child with Down Syndrome if they are nearing or past 40 yrs old. Do we think this is OK? How many of this 74% are babies conceived through fertility treatment? That is a statistic I'd like to see.

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The number of babies born with Down syndrome has been rising in the past decade, McCabe found. But research suggests that about 74 percent of women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome end their pregnancies. And -- in a country where women are delaying childbirth -- there are not nearly as many Down syndrome births as there could have been.

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Let's not forget, ending a pregnancy is murder. It means a life has purposely been ended. The eye color of that killed baby was already determined at conception, as well as the gender. The heart was beating. A little person, fully human and fully depending on the selflessness and mercy of others was patiently growing and waiting to be born. The saddest part of the story is that the baby might have actually been 100% healthy but was misunderstood and so, snuffed out before he/she had a chance to lovingly look in it's parents' faces.

Abortion is wrong. It is a sin.

Sin is what separates us from God and if we do not have our sin debt paid for by Jesus Christ, we are responsible for it, which means we will spend eternity in Hell--a place of torture with the absence of love. God is willing to forgive any sin, but we must confess our sin and ask Jesus to forgive us of our sin. He can cleanse us from all unrighteousness.