Public Health screening with the
express intent to remove people with Down syndrome from the population is
divisive and a disproportionate response to both actual potential quality of
life and exaggerates health problems.
We are on the cusp of both non-invasive testing and the potential for testing for many other chromosomal and genetic disorders - there needs to be an open public debate about what these disorders really mean for those who have them.
We are on the cusp of both non-invasive testing and the potential for testing for many other chromosomal and genetic disorders - there needs to be an open public debate about what these disorders really mean for those who have them.
Given that stereotypes and stigma
often surround people with Down syndrome then this needs to be addressed not
with imagery but by providing information to the public and expose people with
DS as just being just as different and human as anyone else.
At no point should this be used
to threaten a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion.
