More on Prenatal Testing Guidelines

Another parent of a son with Down Syndrome, George Will, gives his perspective on the new recommendations of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that all pregnant women undergo prenatal testing for Down Syndrome.  He starts:

What did Jon Will and the more than 350,000 American citizens like him do to tick off the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists? It seems to want to help eliminate from America almost all of a category of citizens, a category that includes Jon.

He ends:

Jon has a disability, but he also has some things most men would like to have—season tickets for Nationals and Orioles baseball, Redskins football, Capitals hockey and Georgetown University basketball. He gets to and from games (and to his work three days a week for the Nationals at RFK Stadium) by himself, taking public transportation to and from his apartment.

Jon experiences life's three elemental enjoyments—loving, being loved and ESPN. For Jon, as for most normal American males, the rest of life is details.

And there's a lot of good stuff in between, too.