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> a terrible disease that will grant nothing but a short and excruciating existence

That's not a necessary qualification. For example, 90%+ of fetuses diagnosed with Down's syndrome are aborted, even though Down's is far from a death sentence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju-q4OnBtNU

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The happy go lucky Down's people, however, are just what you see of them in media. That's a tiny fraction of the entire population with Down's, which consists of a range of horrible and crippling mental and physical disabilities, in addition to increased risk for diseases like early onset Alzheimers.

Giving a child a life like that feels cruel and heartless to me.

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