Comments on: Saving baby Leo

By: Get1pay2

Get1pay2 — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:39:00 +0000

That is not correct for Denmark.

By: Mardra Sikora

Mardra Sikora — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:31:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing both the “beginning” of this story and how it relates to the bigger issues.

By: valueall

valueall — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 06:03:00 +0000

yes-at least he got born! In NZ fortunately to have a DS baby does not bring shame on the family as it appears to in Armenia (you have to wonder if they would be up there with Denmark and be “DS-free” within a couple of generations should routine screening become available there)……but, there is pressure to abort in NZ (and Denmark) for other reasons such as….well what? The child will be a burden on parents, family & society? So is shame any worse than the notion of burden?

By: Flor

Flor — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 03:26:00 +0000

I been single mother of my STEPHANIE since her ignorant dad walked out on us because “he dont have retarded kids” N AM REALLY PROUD TO SAY ITS BEEN THE BEST 15 years of my life!!!

By: Stella McLeod

Stella McLeod — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 01:55:00 +0000

Around 50 years ago it was also common practice in New Zealand to recommend putting newborn babies with Down syndrome into an institution. Our last large psychopaedic hospital only closed in 2007. Adoption fortunately replaced institutionalisation as an option from the 1970s and 80s, but sadly around the same time antenatal screening and testing were introduced. I am conscious that both my adopted daughters may owe their lives to the fact that both birth mothers were too young to qualify for free antenatal screening; now with the requirement for midwives to offer antenatal screening to every pregnant woman, no woman is too young.