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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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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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.
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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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