Unless regulations and laws are changed, there will be fewer people with Down syndrome to celebrate on future World Down Syndrome Days.
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Science and the Pro-Life Movement ought to be natural allies
By Leticia Velasquez Editor’s note. October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Leticia, who has written many times for NRL News Today, is co-founder of KIDS (Keep Infants with Down Syndrome), and author of "A Special Mother is Born." During the media circus...
Powerful commercial interests are backing prenatal genetic screening
How much will parents pay for the perfect baby or a baby of the right sex? By Philippa Taylor, Head of Public Policy, Christian Medical Fellowship The UK's Nuffield Council on Bioethics is warning that a new screening test for pregnant women, Non-Invasive Prenatal...
Dutch Health Minister: “If freedom of choice results in a situation that nearly no children with Down syndrome are being born, society should accept that”
Editor’s note. This comes from our friends at SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Last week, members of the Dutch opposition party asked Minister of Health Edith Schippers, if she planned to take any measures to prevent the near elimination of...
The British Department of Health approves roll-out of Non Invasive Pre-Natal Testing (NIPT), despite medics concerns
Editor’s note. This comes from SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The Department of Health announced on Saturday that it has approved Non Invasive Pre-Natal Testing for use on the National Health Service which campaigners say will increase the...
Women Deserve the Truth about Down syndrome and Pre-natal Testing
By Leticia Velasquez In an age when we value informed consent and patient centered care, it’s a travesty that often the worst informed patient is the mother of a unborn baby with special needs. Everyone she meets in her medical office seems to be telling her what she...
Misdiagnosis or divine intervention? Baby given no hope to live, born completely healthy
By Nancy Flanders At a routine 10 week ultrasound, Ida Raymond was told something could be wrong with her baby. She and her husband, along with their one year old son, were sent immediately to a different hospital for further testing. But according to Right to...
Woman sees ultrasound, realizes she’s pregnant with “a little person”
By Sarah Terzo From a woman who was being tested to see if her baby had Down syndrome or another handicap; she had been considering abortion if the baby was discovered to be disabled. She’s describing what she saw on the ultrasound: “I was on this incredible...
Women Deserve the Truth about Down syndrome and Pre-natal Testing
By Leticia Velasquez Editor’s note. October is Down syndrome Awareness Month. We will be posting stories, just like this one, all month. In an age when we value informed consent and patient centered care, it’s a travesty that often the worst informed patient is...
Love is the Antidote to Prenatal Eugenic Cleansing
By Wesley J. Smith Scientists have announced that they are perfecting a maternal blood test that will permit technologists to map the entire genome of the developing fetus. Unlike amniocentesis, which requires the insertion of a needle into the womb to obtain...