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Eugenics

ALRANZ: Butt out of disability rights!

  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 othe
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How much is your child worth?

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) th
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Prenatal discrimination – A theological perspective

 Rita Joseph with Mike and Rebecca Sullivan Rita Joseph gave the following presentation to the “Rise up together in the service of life conference”, in Auckland, New Zealand in September 2013.  It explores the issue of prenatal discrimination from the human rights and theo
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Statement on Michael Laws’ Comments to Eradicate Down Syndrome

      Saving Downs and the International Down Syndrome Coalition condemn the promotion of eugenics by Whanganui District Health Board member Michael Laws. Laws made a public statement on his Facebook page on the 8th December stating that eradicating Down syndrome would
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Autistic & Down syndrome advocates unite to oppose prenatal eugenics

Saving Downs is delighted to announce that Asperger’s Syndrome/Autistic Spectrum New Zealand and a number of allied organisations have resolved to publicly support and identify with all of our social justice actions. As autistic advocates, the groups oppose prenatal eugenics against t
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Genetic expert Diana Bianchi misrepresents new eugenic test for Down syndrome

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    This week the Harvard Gazette published an article on the “new test for Down syndrome”. It contained the usual offensive language about our community. It contains the usual misleading information about screening. It introduces a new Trojan horse of a “future treatment” t
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Aren’t We the Clever Ones?

Callow academics defend introduction of Neo-Nazi language. Todays guest post is by Rita Joseph. Rita is a Canberra-based writer and lecturer. For more than three decades she has been researching, writing and lecturing on the philosophy of the language of human rights. A veteran human
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Bioethicists ask: How we can best promote infanticide?

The fallout from the Otago University Bioethics paper on screening for Down syndrome continues in a new paper “Bioethics and the New Media” by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, the same authors of a paper last year supporting infanticide for Down syndrome. This time Giubilini a
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Complaint lodged with the Human Rights Commission over eugenics paper

Complaint lodged with the Human Rights Commission over eugenics paper Saving Downs has lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission over views expressed in the recent publication of a paper in the New Zealand Medical Journal that promotes eugenics against the Down syndrome comm
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PRESS RELEASE: Otago University Bioethics Director must resign following discriminatory paper on Down syndrome

Otago University Bioethics Director must resign following discriminatory paper on Down syndrome Saving Downs demands the resignation of Otago University’s Director of Bioethics following the publishing last week of a highly offensive and discriminatory paper about prenatal testing for
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