https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/down-syndrome-screening-seeing-eugenics-through-the-fog/ Advocating for people with Down syndrome Wed, 11 May 2016 19:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.2 https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/down-syndrome-screening-seeing-eugenics-through-the-fog/#comment-358 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 20:23:06 +0000 https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/?p=3375#comment-358 Thanks for the note Theo, they have indeed changed the headline and removed a sentence about eradication. But here is another article in which another geneticist hails the new tests to enable eradication http://phys.org/news/2011-03-syndrome-breakthrough-horizon.html

]]> https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/down-syndrome-screening-seeing-eugenics-through-the-fog/#comment-357 Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:10:00 +0000 https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/?p=3375#comment-357 The appear to have re-written the Telegraph article as it now has the headline “Blood test for Down’s ‘could avert 300 miscarriages a year'”. Also can’t find the quote about eradicating Down’s. Was that a quote from a Dr or was it the journalist himself who wrote it? Interesting that they’ve changed it. Wonder why?

]]> https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/down-syndrome-screening-seeing-eugenics-through-the-fog/#comment-306 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:52:51 +0000 https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/?p=3375#comment-306 […] eugenics in detail. I have discussed before why screening for Down syndrome is eugenic here and here.Whether it is voluntary or not is irrelevant. Selecting the type of child to be born based on […]

]]> https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/down-syndrome-screening-seeing-eugenics-through-the-fog/#comment-52 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:53:31 +0000 https://www.savingdownsyndrome.org/?p=3375#comment-52 […] the rest of the article here. […]

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