Down Syndrome has come up a few times in here the last few days. (Be sure and read Rich’s review of that wonderful-sounding movie, Shorty, if you haven’t.) Today there is an AP story about a blessing who could have easily been just another statistic, another person never allowed to see the world. All of this is anecdotal, I realize, but consider this: In the abstract of a study published in 1998, at one Boston hospital, 86 percent of parents aware that their unborn children were likely to be born with Down Syndrome had abortions (between the years 1972 and 1994). I’m not pretending raising a child with a disability is easy, but think of the Shortys and Poco Cartons we’ve lost.