Today we have a guest blog by Anna’s Mom: How a Mother’s path leads to an exciting new book idea. I am Anna’s Mom. My daughter is twenty-four years old and was born with Down syndrome. When her friends see me they say, “Hi, Anna’s Mom!” My identity had become synonymous with my daughter’s birth. The morning Anna was born, a Nun came into my hospital room and said, “God has a big job fo
The Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ (ALRANZ) recently published “16 Reasons to Change NZ’s Abortion Laws”, as part of a campaign to lobby on this issue in the upcoming parliamentary elections in New Zealand. As an advocacy group, we leave the wider abortion debate to others. Our focus is on the rights of the Down syndrome community and prenatal discrimination. But when a group walks h
Do you have a loved one with Down syndrome? Have you ever wondered how much they are worth? $74,768.91 Give or take a bit in kiwi dollars – that’s 38,000 British Pounds at today’s exchange rate. That’s according to this report for the New Zealand National Screening Unit (NSU) that was prepared by Health Outcomes International (HOI). The NSU engaged HOI in 2007 to: “…inform its decision as