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It's more understandable from a practical standpoint than for gender though. Practically, I understand the extra cost and extra time that parents would have to sacrifice that they don't want to give up, not to mention the extra stress and burden. But I think that points to the problem that we, as a society, don't value our disabled. If having a Down's fetus automatically leads one to think abortion, it's a reflection on the values and priorities of the society they live in. It is only a burden and huge cost to parents because we as a society let it be. And abortion allows us as a society to not have to change this fact. Why worry when you can abort?

Not to mention, the message is pretty clear if you're disabled: your life isn't worth as much as others. And they're right, society views them as more disposable.

So you can do this with gender now too, and the message is loud and clear in China: women aren't worth as much as men. I'm pretty sure Sweden doesn't think that, but that's what they're promoting by allowing discriminatory abortion.