Slippery, meet slope.
Wow!! This is reported as wonderful news?!?!
A brave new world.
Eugenics is alive and well.
It’s NOT disappearing. ..they are just snuffing out the evidence.
I shudder to think about Iceland’s cures for cancer and the common cold.
That is absolutely chilling.
Although I would not like it at all, I can see how a country might possibly try to justify eliminating genes for something like albinoism. I believe this would be extremely difficult, but — theoretically — once you get rid of anyone with that genetic marker, you would never see albinoism again.
Downs, on the other hand, isn’t like that, I believe Downs is caused by chromosome damage and cannot ever be “removed” from a gene pool. It is an inherent risk.
So Iceland is a country which just wants to cull the unwanted from society. An unending process. An ever-expanding goal. Slippery slope indeed.
Quite a few years ago I noticed the decline of DS children here in the U.S..
Almost without exception I found these people to be gentle,good natured and *entirely* harmless *even when* they were ill...sometimes quite ill.They were grateful for what you did for them.
Yes,most of them cannot support themselves or care for themselves but there are plenty of older folks who can't either.
Everything I've read about Iceland in recent years suggests to me that its people are particularly filthy and amoral.
It’s not disappearing...they’re eliminating them.
In India, it is against the law for a doctor to tell anyone the sex of the child before birth.
...”few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland”
Awful. As if these kids are a disease to be “eradicated”.
Wake up to what is happening.
Silly me. I thought this article was about some advance in medicine that would prevent a Down’s syndrome child from being conceived. But instead it’s about simply killing them before birth.
This woman, a Harvard Law School grad and successful writer married to a successful writer, had a second trimester abortion because her baby had Trisomy something, the scientific way of saying Down Syndrome. The essay was published in Salon magazine and in her book of essays and was met with acclaim: 95% of the comments to the article praised her, many praising her specifically for being a “good mother”!
Here's something I think about often. Homosexuality and obesity are two conditions that probably involve genetic predispositions. It is perfectly acceptable to abort babies that would have Down Syndrome, right? Yet, when the “gay gene” and the “fat gene” are identified, and women start abortion fat, gay babies, you KNOW there will be an outcry.
They sure have ‘cured’ that problem!
All those dead babies are just a statistic...
I’ve known a number of Downs Syndrome people over the years, and all of them were sweet and kind, very pleasant to talk to, and did their jobs well, working in supermarkets, with lawn mowers, in fast-food restaurants, and other jobs they could handle well.
Also, one of my daughters agreed to a prenatal screening, and the doctors told her that the unborn baby PROBABLY had Downs Syndrome.
She thought it over, decided she really didn’t want to kill it, went ahead and had the baby, and he came out perfectly find.
Nothing like baby-killing to please the libs! Just controlling the population to make more room for terrorists and liberal nutballs!
Margaret Sanger retired to Iceland, as I remember, seems she is doing well.
Building a better world one death at a time.
Holding my breath for the comparison to the Nazi’s attempt at an only Aryan Race.......oh wait, Big Media supports this Mode of Purification....never mind.