Interesting Perspective on Disabilities Eugenics

"An obstetrician told me excitedly about a new blood test that will allow pregnant women to discover if the child they are carrying has Down syndrome. The good news, he told me, is that we will no longer have to worry about "unfortunate births."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704779704574551772105223840.html

Screening for Down syndrome Condemned As Eugenics

"This programme will simply result in babies with Down's syndrome being targeted with abortion in an attempt to weed out these people from our society." He said the proposal sends a message to disabled people that they are not as welcome in New Zealand as people without disabilities. The screening method is not healthcare, rather it is "unjust eugenics" and has no place in New Zealand."
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http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/viewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1894

Irish family in Israel says special-needs child brought new attitude

"They value the most vulnerable in society. You walk down the street here and strangers smile at Rachel. People are very compassionate toward children in Israel."
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http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0905001.htm

Three babies aborted every day due to Down's syndrome

An increasing number of pregnant women are being told their babies have the condition because of a growing number of women putting off having children until their 30s and 40s and improvements in screening, doctors say. And around nine in ten women who are told they are going to have a baby with the problem opt for a termination.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6440705/Three-babies-aborted-every-day-due-to-Downs-syndrome.html

Conscience, Courage, and Children With Down Syndrome

The real choice in accepting or rejecting a child with special needs is never between some imaginary perfection or imperfection. The real choice is between love and unlove, between courage and cowardice, between trust and fear. And that’s the choice we face as a society in deciding which human lives we will treat as valuable, and which we will not.
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http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/10/conscience44-courage44-and-children-with-down-syndrome

Down's syndrome abortions 'are double official level' as doctors spare women's feelings

Twice as many unborn babies are being aborted because they have Down's syndrome as official figures disclose, an independent body revealed yesterday. Doctors are trying to spare women's feelings at aborting a disabled child by failing to classify the termination as Down's, it was claimed. Instead, they are recorded as 'social' abortions:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226528/Downs-abortions-double-official-level-doctors-spare-womens-feelings.html

Understanding the implications of prenatal testing for Down syndrome

"As new tests become available, will babies with Down syndrome slowly disappear?"
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http://www.childrenshospital.org/newsroom/Site1339/mainpageS1339P1sublevel560.html
WATCH INTERVIEW HERE:
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/down_syndrome_research_092209

Study: Higher Use of Detailed Ultrasounds Yields More Abortions of Disabled Babies

A new study involving researchers at Cornell University finds that a more frequent use of detailed ultrasound on women who have babies with majority physical abnormalities results in more abortions.
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http://www.lifenews.com/nat5302.html

Volunteers Promote International Adoptions of Babies with Down syndrome

A Maryland-based organization is working against the trend of aborting Down syndrome babies by placing those children from around the globe with loving families in the United States.
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http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0902324.htm

Father Who Agreed to Abort Down Syndrome Son Seeks Redemption

Five years after the abortion of his son, who had been pre-natally diagnosed with Down syndrome, a grieving father, who asked to remain anonymous, spoke with CNSNews.com about the decision to end his child’s life and the aftermath of that decision.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=37686

Very Disturbing FACTS

Terminating Down Syndrome Baby Typically Requires Gruesome D&E Procedure
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http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37757

New Safety, New Concerns In Tests for Down Syndrome

"We have a nation of physicians who are unprepared for explaining a diagnosis of Down syndrome," said Brian Skotko, a physician at Children's Hospital in Boston who works with the National Down Syndrome Society. "Many overemphasize the negative consequences or outright urge women to terminate their pregnancies."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022302837_pf.html

Down Syndrome a Modern-Day Death Sentence

Claire will never read these words. But at least she is alive and brings joy to her many friends and family members. You see, Claire is a survivor. She survived one of the most ruthlessly effective extermination programs in modern times. Claire has Down syndrome.
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http://deseretnews.com/article/content/mobile/1,5143,705284943,00.html?printView=true

The International Down Syndrome Coalition For Life

Why is the IDSC Necessary? When a mother is told that the child she is carrying happens to have Down syndrome, that baby has a 5 to 10% chance of living.
READ MORE HERE: http://idscforlife.wordpress.com/

Eugenics Rears Its Ugly Head, and Down the Slippery Slope We Slide

Oh, what a wonderful world it would be! No people with disabilities clogging up the system, no cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, spina bifida, none of the up to 6,000 known adverse gene mutations!
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http://mdviews.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/eugenics-rears-its-ugly-head-and-down-the-slippery-slope-we-slide/

Possible Pre-Natal Screening Test for Autism Sparks Eugenics Debate

There is a test for Down's syndrome and that is legal and parents exercise their right to choose termination, but autism is often linked with talent. It is a different kind of condition.”
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012005.html

Down Syndrome - Endangered Species

Please read my article on page 9 of the Winter Edition of the PA Lifelines Newsletter:
http://www.paprolife.org/news/LifeLinesWINTERnewsletter09final%20PDF.pdf
Help spread the good news of what Priceless Blessings Children with Down Syndrome bring to our world.
Thanks

A Flawless Perspective

I wanted to share a passage from a book, The Clowns of God by Morris West, where Jesus comes back down to earth, some people think its Him, some don't, and at one point, He's at this school for children with Down Syndrome, and he's got this little girl in his lap, and says
"I know what you are thinking. You need a sign. What better one could I give but to make this little one whole and new? I could do it; but I will not. I am the Lord and not a conjurer. I gave this mite a gift I denied to all of you--eternal innocence. To you she looks imperfect--but to me she is flawless, like the bud that dies unopened or the fledgling that falls from the nest to be devoured by ants. She will never offend me, as all of you have done. She will never pervert or destroy the work of my Father's hands. She is necessary to you. She will evoke the kindness that will keep you human. Her infirmity will prompt you to gratitude for your own good fortune... More! She will remind you every day that I am who I am, that my ways are not yours, and that the smallest dust mite whirled in the darkest spaces does not fall out of my hand... I have chosen you. You have not chosen me. This little one is my sign to you. Treasure her!"

Not worthy to live? Hardly

Kathleen has Down syndrome. Today, 90 percent of babies who are diagnosed with Down syndrome before birth are aborted. Many of those born with this genetic disorder, if not most, are institutionalized or kept hidden in the shadows.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84900