Asperger's/PDD

but you must have some compassion for the mothers and their families, whose lives are basically destroyed while caring for a severely disabled child (that is, a child not able to live an independent, adult existence with safety, work, friends, etc.) and worrying about that child even after the parents are dead. THAT is the worst nightmare, not the termination of a pregnancy.

It doesn't improve the human species or any species, to have a large and growing population that will not be able to survive without heroic efforts. There aren't that many heroes to go around.

NO one is advocating the Nazi solution. It is far more likely that genetic counseling will be the only necessary step, sufficient to ensure the best result for all.

It is even looking promising that genetic therapy will rapidly advance to correct fetal development in the pregnancy.

Even if only a screening is possible, I cannot condemn or look down upon a family that chooses to decline to "volunteer" for a crushing, life-long guardianship before a baby is produced.

After all, abuse and neglect and exploitation are much more horrific and all too common for the children that deviate to the socially less desirable side of "normal".