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Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing [tr]
CBS News ^ | August 15, 2017 | Julian Quinones and Arijeta Lajka

Posted on 08/16/2017 4:54:51 AM PDT by C19fan

With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.

Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women -- close to 100 percent -- who received a positive test for Down syndrome terminated their pregnancy.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; eugenics; genetics; slipperyslope
Hitler was ahead of his time.
1 posted on 08/16/2017 4:54:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

“Disappearing” seems to be the wrong word.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 5:04:03 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: C19fan

Their reasoning seems to be that if you have Downs Syndrome, you have no right to live. That is what passes for compassion among liberals.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 5:09:28 AM PDT by djpg (..)
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To: djpg
Some things never change.


4 posted on 08/16/2017 5:17:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ptsal

I think the word they’re looking for is “genocide.”


5 posted on 08/16/2017 5:36:14 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Hillary for Prison!)
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To: C19fan

And yet the authors of this article would be shocked and insulted if someone told them they were praising eugenics.


6 posted on 08/16/2017 5:38:46 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Hillary for Prison!)
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Right now, Adolf Hitler is in Hell lamenting the fact he didn’t have Social Media and Political Correctness to achieve all his goals.


7 posted on 08/16/2017 5:50:17 AM PDT by Maverick68
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https://www.liveaction.org/news/end-the-down-syndrome-holocaust-today/

“When you hear the word “holocaust,” most people automatically think of Hitler and the Nazis, slaughtering the Jews. Many people don’t know that there was another group that Hitler targeted first – a dress rehearsal of sorts for the horror that was to come later. The first group of people that Hitler went after was the disabled.

First, there was a law passed in 1933 which required the forced sterilization of people with disabilities, and over 400,000 people were sterilized. Then there was Aktion-T4, which authorized the murders of disabled people. Over 70,000 were killed. They would be placed in buses and taken to killing centers, where they were murdered as soon as they got there under the Nazi euthanasia program.

How many people will learn about that and be horrified? And how many of them know that right now, to this very day, we’re still practicing eugenics against the disabled? This holocaust, though, is a silent one. It’s one that many people won’t hear about, and if they do, they excuse it. The holocaust I’m referring to is the systematic killing of babies with Down syndrome.”

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Congratulations to the Icelanders . . . Aktion-T4 2.0

And remember this is the country that gave Bobby Fischer asylum too . . .


8 posted on 08/16/2017 5:52:34 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: LRoggy

There’s a Bobby Fischer museum there.


9 posted on 08/16/2017 5:59:27 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: LRoggy

Since when is murdering “disappearing”? Only in the mind of lunatic leftists.


10 posted on 08/16/2017 5:59:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: LRoggy

Since when is murdering “disappearing”? Only in the mind of lunatic leftists.


11 posted on 08/16/2017 5:59:29 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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Patricia Heaton Rips CBS Report: Iceland Didn’t ‘Eliminate’ Down Syndrome, Just ‘Killing Everybody’ That Has It
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/08/15/patricia-heaton-iceland-killing-everybody-syndrome/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20170815


12 posted on 08/16/2017 6:28:32 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: C19fan
For those on the left that praise this, claiming Down’s are somehow defective, how would they act if their cause célèbre, the LBGTQRS’ were deemed just as defective, and killed before birth?

They claim a genetic “difference” for LGBT.

How is it different than Down’s, who they want to eradicate?

The gays have their “pride” parade.
The only parade they want to give Down’s is in trash receptacles.

13 posted on 08/16/2017 6:36:04 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: C19fan

The incidence of Down Syndrone isn’t disappearing. Babies with the extra chromosome are instead being murdered. Big difference. Nice try though, See BS.


14 posted on 08/16/2017 6:39:10 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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To: C19fan

Seems like the exterminator is being passed off as a medical breakthrough in Iceland.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 6:41:51 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: C19fan

If they gave every doctor in the cancer wards a shotgun and orders to shoot cancer patients could they then claim that Iceland is curing cancer?


16 posted on 08/16/2017 7:59:03 AM PDT by 762X51
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