The R Word — It Is Personal

"What I could not see at this time was the mental retardation. MaryEllen was only 14 days old, and all I wanted to think about was my beautiful baby. I just wanted to hold her and enjoy her during this time that she was so little. However, those two ominous words kept popping up in my mind. They were the words that I had to wrestle with the most. At night, when everything was quiet, I would cry myself to sleep. My heart hurt. Those words would roll through my mind. “My daughter has mental retardation,” I said to myself through tears. It hurt."
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http://catholicexchange.com/2010/02/23/127413/

Considering 'Curing' Down Syndrome with Caution

"The language implies that Down syndrome is a disease, a sickness that is currently incurable. But Down syndrome is the presence, from conception, of an extra 21st chromosome in every cell of a human body. It reduces Down syndrome to a medical condition rather than understanding people with Down syndrome as whole—emotional, physical, social, spiritual—persons. People with Down syndrome don't need to be cured. They do need to be treated as the complete human beings they are."
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=86673

Down Syndrome, Search and Destroy

"The screening of unborn babies for Down syndrome with a new national screening programme is further manifestation of a culture of death. It is a search and destroy programme that has as its sole objective the termination of the lives of unborn children. An abortion is the ultimate discrimination against those with a disability. This is eugenics which proclaims that only the perfect have a right to be born. The screening programme is a further major step on the slippery slope."
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=PO0911/S00089.htm

What Did Jon Do?

"What did Jon Will and the more than 350,000 American citizens like him do to tick off the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists? It seems to want to help eliminate from America almost all of a category of citizens"
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070516125514/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16720750/site/newsweek

Euthanasia Replacing Medicine

"In one teaching hospital, anesthetists stopped providing anesthesia for cardiac surgery involving Down's syndrome patients."
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http://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/E016cpEuthanasia.htm

Down Syndrome and Evidence of the Divine

"To identify what it is about these special people that allows us to glimpse the divine isn't really difficult. It's something most of us pursue and long for - even if only subconsciously. It's the purity and innocence they have within them. I suppose I could credit that small, extra chromosome #21 for this. That's why I call it the "divine chromosome".
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http://www.examiner.com/sitemaps/x-11535-Christian-Living-Examiner~y2009m8d1-Down-Syndrome-and-evidence-of-the-Divine

Journalist calls for euthanasia of disabled newborns

"The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,” which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public outrage in Russia"
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http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-02-03/journalist-euthanasia-disabled-newborns.html

Yankee Doodle Eugenics

"In a time when people with Down syndrome can live lives that are "strikingly normal," they have been "targeted for elimination."
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http://www.breakpoint.org/commentaries/4492-yankee-doodle-eugenics