My husband just told me that I sound like a pro-lifer in my last post. I'm certainly not the type to stand in front of an abortion clinic and make protest.

I am a mother in love with her son who happens to be autistic. In him, I see miracles everyday. I admit that prior to having a son with autism, I would have been fearful of autism, downs syndrome...it is not a condition people would prefer to deal with because people have no idea what it involves without having had the experience. This is why we as parents have so much awareness-raising to do. Before I had my son, I feared anything that was "different." After the experience, I would have opted to have a child with any "special" need. Yes, it is challenging in a society that does not yet provide enough supports, but having know what I know today, this is just life and all of this genetic pruning for perfection leaves me to think of how base and banal a society we might become.