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This week a Parliamentary Inquiry into abortion on the grounds of disability was launched in the UK. This is a major opportunity for social justice for our community. We applaud Fiona Bruce MP, the Inquiry Chair, for this most welcome and important initiative to stop discrimination ag

Earlier this month I came across a blog indicating that the UK’s Department of Health is grossly under-reporting the true number of pregnancy terminations for Down’s syndrome. This raises a red flag because the accurate monitoring of birth and termination numbers is important fo

This blog has been crossed posted from MercatorNet.com and has been reproduced with their kind permission. As someone who now has an 8 week old baby, I have recently started reading a range of parenting magazines.  It is amazing how supported you can feel by people on a page who appea

It has been an awesome year for our social justice advocacy at Saving Downs, so this blog is all about celebration and praise for the great work. In reflecting on what we have achieved, I am reminded of the reality that all great social justice causes take a long time to evolve, and s

      PRESS RELEASE: 1 November 2012 Further evidence to be provided to the International Criminal Court on antenatal screening complaint Saving Downs is following up with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), filing a request for full reasoning to guide additional

Saving Downs and Spina Bifida New Zealand have mounting evidence that parents are being put under undue pressure to terminate wanted pregnancies when receiving a positive diagnosis of conditions such as Down syndrome and Spina Bifida. Our group positions are that children should not b

The Telegraph reported this week that an alliance is launching a new push to restrict the UK 1967 Abortion Act, to prevent doctors terminating pregnancies on the grounds of physical abnormality. SavingDowns applauds this initiative. We advocate for the repeal of “foetal abnormality” a

  Last month Saving Downs held the “Loving Every Child: Defying Eugenics” seminar. Dr Deirdre Little gave an outstanding presentation on ‘Current practice and how it links with eugenics’.  She gave a very detailed, scientific breakdown of what is really going on with routine ante

There has been some interesting blogs going around objecting to Saving Downs using the term “eugenics” in relation to antenatal screening for Down syndrome. So, what’s really going here and how did we arrive at a government-funded eugenics programme in New Zealand in 2010? Firstly, I

There has been a bit of discussion going on around the place about screening for Down Syndrome having a therapeutic benefit. So what is the situation here in New Zealand? Firstly, Saving Downs position is outlined in our Mission Statement: To ensure that antenatal screening exists onl