Tzitz Eliezer on Aborting a Down's Syndrome Baby (17 Adar Sheni)

שו"ת ציץ אליעזר יד:קא 17 Adar Sheni 5738 (1978)

Can Jews perform amniocentesis to see if a baby has Down's Syndrome? Tzitz Eliezer had previously permitted aborting a baby with Tay-Sachs disease; how did that reasoning extend to the challenging (but less uniformly awful) experience of Down's Syndrome. Gets into issues of lifnei iver, and of how and when we trust in Hashem and how and when we set our own futures.