{"id":6545,"date":"2017-08-21T15:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2017-08-21T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:56:18","slug":"iceland-is-eradicating-down-syndromeby-aborting-everyone-who-has-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/iceland-is-eradicating-down-syndromeby-aborting-everyone-who-has-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland is ‘eradicating’ Down syndrome\u2026by aborting everyone who has it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Girl with Down syndrome. Credit: Denis Kuvaev via www.shutterstock.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug 16, 2017 \/ 03:22 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>)<\/span>.- A recent article from CBS News proclaims that \u201cfew countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The operative word here is \u201cbirths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Has Iceland discovered, through some groundbreaking technology and research, a cure to the chromosomal abnormality? No.<\/p>\n

How do you \u201cdisappear Down syndrome\u201d then, as one of the article\u2019s taglines states?<\/p>\n

You \u201cdisappear\u201d people with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

\u201cIceland isn’t actually eliminating Down syndrome. They’re just killing everybody that has it. Big difference,\u201d tweeted actress Patricia Heaton, who has been outspoken about her pro-life beliefs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing to celebrate in Iceland’s \u2018eradication\u2019 of babies born with Down syndrome through abortion,\u201d stressed Jor-El Godsey, president of\u00a0Heartbeat International<\/a><\/strong>, a network of 1,800 pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that counsel women and connect them with resources throughout the country.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThese are precious human beings hand-crafted in the image of God, and no government or person on earth has the authority to rob persons with Down syndrome of their lives,\u201d Godsey told CNA. \u201cDown syndrome is not a death sentence, and it is monstrous to suggest otherwise.\u201d<\/div>\n

Every pregnant woman in Iceland is given an option of a prenatal test that can detect Down syndrome with 85 percent accuracy. \u201cNearly 100 percent\u201d of pregnancies that tested positive for Down syndrome were aborted, CBS reports.<\/p>\n

While prenatal testing is not required in Iceland, healthcare providers tell every pregnant woman that the test is an option. The country, which has a population of 330,000, usually sees only one or two children a year born with Down syndrome \u2013 often the result, the article reports, of faulty testing.<\/p>\n

Other countries \u201caren’t lagging too far behind\u201d in Down syndrome abortion rates, the article states. \u201cThe United States has an estimated (abortion) rate for Down syndrome of 67 percent (1995-2011); in France it’s 77 percent (2015); and Denmark, 98 percent (2015).\u201d<\/p>\n

The CBS article included some discussion of the ethical dilemmas that prenatal screening and abortion of babies with Down syndrome present.<\/p>\n

Geneticist Kari Stefansson said for the piece, \u201cMy understanding is that we have basically eradicated, almost, Down syndrome from our society \u2013 that there is hardly ever a child with Down syndrome in Iceland anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when asked what this means for society, he cautioned: \u201cIt reflects a relatively heavy-handed genetic counseling. And I don’t think that heavy-handed genetic counseling is desirable\u2026You’re having impact on decisions that are not medical, in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t think there’s anything wrong with aspiring to have healthy children, but how far we should go in seeking those goals is a fairly complicated decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The article also admits that while people born with Down syndrome are at risk for various other health problems, many people with Down syndrome also live full and healthy lives, and are able to live independently or semi-independently, hold jobs, and have relationships.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany people born with Down syndrome can live full, healthy lives, with an average lifespan of around 60 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the best argument against the eradication of Down syndrome is Augusta, the cute little seven-year-old pink-clad girl peering out from the pages of the CBS article. Her mother, Thordis Ingadottir, took the test when she was pregnant with Augusta, but it failed to detect Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Now, Ingadottir has become an advocate for people with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will hope that she will be fully integrated on her own terms in this society. That’s my dream,\u201d Ingadottir told CBS. \u201cIsn’t that the basic needs of life? What kind of society do you want to live in?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Godsey told CNA that parents whose children have Down syndrome or other genetic abnormalities need love and support \u2013 not abortion.<\/div>\n

\u201c(These parents)…deserve love and support that will benefit their growing families, and abortion fails categorically to deliver on its false promises to benefit families, individuals and society as a whole,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Godsey added that almost anyone who knows someone with Down syndrome would be completely against its elimination.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs anyone who knows a person with Down syndrome can tell you, these beautiful people are an absolute joy to their families and communities. The world grows exponentially poorer as we kill innocent babies for the \u2018crime\u2019 of failing to match up to our self-aggrandizing expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The joy of life with a family member who has Down syndrome was celebrated CBS in\u00a0a different article<\/a><\/strong>, published to mark World Down Syndrome Day in 2015. It was a column by Marguerite (Maggie) Reardon, a senior writer at CNET, about when she found out her daughter would be born with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

For a long time, she considered abortion, though her husband was against it. What changed her mind was the day she found a community of other people with Down syndrome and parents of children with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s still an exhausted, stressed out parent, she wrote, but that\u2019s not because her child has Down syndrome. It\u2019s because she has two little kids who keep her busy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s true my daughter has some developmental delays. And she receives a bevy of therapies through Early Intervention to help keep her on track,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut she’s also wonderful. She has a twinkle in her eye and an infectious grin that makes even the most miserable looking people on the subway smile when she stares them down. When she puts her head on my shoulder as I rock her to sleep each night, my heart melts no matter what kind of day I’ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think she is more special than other children, but it’s not because she has Down syndrome. It’s because I’m a completely biased and doting mother who thinks no one could possibly be as adorable, bright or funny as my own child,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd her name is Margot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tags:<\/b>\u00a0Abortion<\/a>,\u00a0Pro-life<\/a>,\u00a0Catholic News<\/a>,\u00a0Down syndrome<\/a>,\u00a0Iceland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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