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Biden’s tragic misjudgment: Disabled lives matter
By Michael New, Mary Szoch, and Jennifer Bauwens In last week’s State of the Union address, President Biden recognized a woman who procured an abortion after receiving a diagnosis of a serious fetal anomaly. In recent years, many have used the potential future...
Is it “practicing eugenics” to abort a baby because she is diagnosed with Down Syndrome? The in-house ethicist for the New York Time Magazine Weighs in
By Dave Andrusko We’ve already posted reflections by Michael Cook on a column written by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the in-house Ethicist for the New York Times Magazine. I’d like to add a few thoughts. The headline for Appiah’s post is “Does Prenatal Testing for...
New York Times tackles the ethics of aborting Down syndrome kids
By Michael Cook The New York Times is widely regarded as the most authoritative news source in the United States. How about ethical advice from its in-house ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a leading philosopher who is also president of the American Academy of Arts and...
Father cannot imagine life without his daughter who has Down syndrome
The lives of children with Down syndrome oughtn’t to be discarded because the world remains imperfect By Dave Andrusko In a post that appeared at The Atlantic, “A Generational Shift in Understanding Life With Down Syndrome,” Educator Theo Malekin does an...
What does it say about us as a culture when we abort children with Down syndrome on a massive scale?
By Dave Andrusko Back a ways, we repost a story that told the grim truth about the fate of babies with Down syndrome in Denmark. In 2019 there were virtually none—just 18! When I read “The last children of Down Syndrome” by Sarah Zhan, I immediately thought of the...
Spanish woman becomes first parliamentarian with Down syndrome in Europe
Our society practices lethal discrimination against people with Down syndrome just like Mar Galcerán every day, often on the pathetic pretense that it is 'compassionate' to kill those with disabilities in the womb. By Jonathon VanMaren Mar GalceránScreenshot/YouTube...
Mass Aborting of Down-Syndrome Babies Amounts to Eugenics
By Wesley J. Smith The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” column this week features a would-be father asking if prenatal testing for conditions such as Down syndrome amounts to eugenics. The answer, predictably, is no. From, the column: None of these scenarios are morally...
Mother of child with Down’s syndrome refused abortion and founded a non-profit
By Right to Life UK A mother, who was offered an abortion after tests suggested her unborn child had Down’s syndrome, is launching a non-profit organization dedicated to serving families of children with special needs. Marsha Weigum was told that there was a 99%...
Boy with Down syndrome adopted from Serbia ‘completes our family,’ say parents of six
By Elle Kay For Matt and Sarah Effhauser, adoption wasn’t necessarily the life they had pictured. The Effhausers had five children, and what many would call the “perfect” family as it was. Then, the words of a family priest changed everything: “What is going to...