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  1. Comment on The last children of Down Syndrome in ~life

    markx2
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    Look at the article subtitle. It says "Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning." Prenatal testing, and therefore the choices about termination, have...

    Look at the article subtitle. It says

    "Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning."

    Prenatal testing, and therefore the choices about termination, have been here for decades.

    The subtitle implies - to me - that this a new dawn, new tech, the beginning of something.

    It is emphatically not.

    The subtitle is in the wrong.

  2. Comment on The last children of Down Syndrome in ~life

    markx2
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    I did read it. Eugenics has been around for a very very long time. You seem to have missed my line about India...

    I did read it.

    Eugenics has been around for a very very long time.

    You seem to have missed my line about India...

  3. Comment on The last children of Down Syndrome in ~life

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    There will be women who are not offered any test women who after a positive test will have religious / faith based objections and so reject termination women who choose positively to have a child...

    There will be

    • women who are not offered any test
    • women who after a positive test will have religious / faith based objections and so reject termination
    • women who choose positively to have a child with Down(s) Syndrome

    The article subtitle:

    "Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning."

    Prenatal testing has been here for decades.

    Look at India where the ratio of male/female children is massively skewed even before the killing of female newborns is counted.

    This is no beginning. It is a continuation.

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