The Future of Down Syndrome

Perhaps the most important thing you need to know about Melanie Perkins McLaughlin is that she's not pro-life or pro-choice or pro anything — other than pro-information.
When a distraught pregnant woman phones a Massachusetts hotline for Down syndrome, agonizing over what to do with an unexpected prenatal diagnosis, she will be routed to Perkins McLaughlin, who went through the same awful calculations in 2007. When Perkins McLaughlin learned halfway through her pregnancy that her daughter would have Down syndrome, she nearly decided to end the pregnancy for fear of what it would do to her marriage and her two older children.