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Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug 16, 2017 / 03:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent article from CBS News proclaims that “few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.”
The operative word here is “births.”
Has Iceland discovered, through some groundbreaking technology and research, a cure to the chromosomal abnormality? No. How do you “disappear Down syndrome” then, as one of the article’s taglines states?
You “disappear” people with Down syndrome.
“Iceland isn't actually eliminating Down syndrome. They're just killing everybody that has it. Big difference,” tweeted actress Patricia Heaton, who has been outspoken about her pro-life beliefs.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
Do you think women are not aborting downs babies in america?
originally posted by: silo13
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: silo13
Let me guess. You want to make illegal for women to abort when they find out their fetus suffers from a possibly survivable disease?
Wow you're a smart one this morning!
Yes!
peace
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: silo13
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: silo13
Let me guess. You want to make illegal for women to abort when they find out their fetus suffers from a possibly survivable disease?
Wow you're a smart one this morning!
Yes!
peace
Okay. Do you also want to make it illegal for a woman to abort a healthy fetus, because it's unwanted?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: silo13
Normalizing eugenics.
I wonder what trait they'll "eradicate" next.
originally posted by: Cutepants
a reply to: silo13
In most cases it's not hereditary, so killing the parents wouldn't help at all. This isn't eugenics.
source
Most cases of Down syndrome are not inherited. When the condition is caused by trisomy 21, the chromosomal abnormality occurs as a random event during the formation of reproductive cells in a parent. The abnormality usually occurs in egg cells, but it occasionally occurs in sperm cells.
originally posted by: ketsuko