Down's Syndrome and Abortion

Nowadays, many child are being killed through abortion. those innocent child are very helpless.

Down syndrome abortion research

Babak Khoshnood et al. Year 2000, researching Down Syndrome abortion: The researchers found that where abortion was readily available, the incidence of Down Syndrome dropped by approximately 40%, in comparison to areas where abortion was not more freely available. In other words, it appears from this that at least 40% of parents choose to terminate the pregnancy when a diagnosis of Down Syndrome is made. To me, this is very sad. These were babies with life, lives that would reach out and touch people. They were denied the right to play on swings, on slides, to grow up, have a birthday and for some, to have kids ... it is heart breaking.

The photo on the left is of a baby who never saw a day dawn, who never smelt a rose, never scraped a knee, nor cried a tear.

Caroline Mansfield, Suellen Hopfer, Theresa M. Marteau, "Termination rates after prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, spina bifida, anencephaly, and Turner and Klinefelter syndromes: a systematic literature review", Prenatal Diagnosis Volume 19 Issue 9, Pages 808 - 812, have reported that Down syndrome abortion has remained relatively constant over around 20 years. Down syndrome abortion reaches around the 92% mark of all Down syndrome confirmed pregnancies.

Amy Harmon, "Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus", The New York Times, May 9, 2007, stated that when parent's are told there baby has Down syndrome, it is often put in such a negative way by medical professionals, that the final result of the process is a Down syndrome abortion. She believes that if medical professionals and health care workers had a more positive attitude to Down syndrome pregnancies, that the Down syndrome abortion rate would drop substantially.

Franz Binkert, Michael Mutter, Albert Schinzel, "Impact of prenatal diagnosis on the prevalence of live births with Down syndrome in the eastern half of Switzerland 1980-1996", SWISS MED WKLY 2 0 0 2 ; 1 3 2 : 4 7 8 - 4 8 4, stated Down syndrome, even in spite of the high Down syndrome abortion rate, would not vanish, as many older mum's are chosing to have children late in life, and are more willing to keep the child with a diagnosis of Down syndrome.

The move to screen pregnancies much earlier using a sonagram (ultrasound) and two blood tests, has meant that Down syndrome babies can now be detected accurately 82 percent to 87 percent of the time in young mums, and these screened babies are then ear marked for amniocentesis or similar for confirmation. The end result is what is becoming known as a eugenics campaign to rule out people from living and existing, who are not perfect in