Sunday, December 14, 2008

New Era, New Worry

The pediatrician was harsher: "You should consider putting him up for adoption," she said. "You're going to end up divorced. Don't even bother having any other children. Didn't you have the option to terminate?" Finally, the pediatrician left
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/172564

Saturday, December 13, 2008

No 'final solution,' but a way forward

"Were God's design for us left unhindered," he says, "we could naturally expect to welcome 40,000 or more newborn infants with Down syndrome each year in the U.S. And yet we have reduced that number to just under 5,500.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/23/no-final-solution-but-a-way-forward/

Thursday, December 11, 2008

'Eugenic Abortion’: With Pre-Natal Testing, 9 in 10 Down Syndrome Babies Aborted

“In the 1960s, we were told that legal abortion would be a rare tragic act in cases of exceptional hardship. In the ‘70s abortion began to be both decried and accepted as birth control. In the ‘80s respected geneticists pointed out that it was cheaper to hunt for and abort Down’s babies than to raise them. By the ‘90s that observation had been widely put into action. Now we are refining and extending our eugenic vision, with new tests and abortion as our central tools.”
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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37421&print=on