I recently had a stillborn baby, at 29 weeks. He did not have downs syndrome, so my initial screenings were clear- and we didn't choose to have any further genetic testing early on, like you, we would never terminate for something like T21, so we didn't see it as needed, even though I'm getting close to advanced maternal age. The labs that read my 20-week ultrasound (which came back 100% normal) are now under review by the medical board because my 25 week follow up (due to small size of the baby- just to check for growth) came back with a few abnormalities, and then when I went to a specialist there were multiple severe abnormalities at 26 weeks. Apparently it is not unheard of for a provider to lie and say there are no problems and suggest a followup on a minor issue so that it puts a baby past the point of viability. By the time I got the absolutely devastating news about my baby's diagnosis (I had an amnio done after that ultrasound- he had an extremely large chromosomal deletion), termination was no longer an option- I was 25 weeks. I've never seen a doctor so angry as when she was asking me questions about my previous care after doing the specialized ultrasound. I really hope the Dr. who read my first ultrasounds was just an idiot who missed about 15 things and not ill intended. My baby had almost no prospect for life, but there was a chance he would make it, and then it was a matter of 10-15 surgeries in the first two years alone while counting down the time until a very painful death from infection or organ failure. If he got past that he could live until he was 20 or 30 with a host of horrific challenges that would never get better. To not have termination as an option was really horrific for me, because it only meant praying that he would die in utero or shortly after being born. Bringing this child into the world would have been cruel. I could never let a living thing suffer the way he was going to. This was NOT a Catholic hospital; but apparently cases of omission happen enough they reported my case immediately for investigation.