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Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing [TR]
CBS News ^ | August 14, 2017 | JULIAN QUINONES, ARIJETA LAJKA

Posted on 08/15/2017 7:34:10 AM PDT by EdnaMode

With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.

Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women -- close to 100 percent -- who received a positive test for Down syndrome terminated their pregnancy.

While the tests are optional, the government states that all expectant mothers must be informed about availability of screening tests, which reveal the likelihood of a child being born with Down syndrome. Around 80 to 85 percent of pregnant women choose to take the prenatal screening test, according to Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik.

"CBSN: On Assignment" headed to Iceland with CBS News correspondent Elaine Quijano to investigate what's factoring into the high termination rates.

Using an ultrasound, blood test and the mother's age, the test, called the Combination Test, determines whether the fetus will have a chromosome abnormality, the most common of which results in Down syndrome. Children born with this genetic disorder have distinctive facial issues and a range of developmental issues. Many people born with Down syndrome can live full, healthy lives, with an average lifespan of around 60 years.

Other countries aren't lagging too far behind in Down syndrome termination rates. According to the most recent data available, the United States has an estimated termination rate for Down syndrome of 67 percent (1995-2011); in France it's 77 percent (2015); and Denmark, 98 percent (2015). The law in Iceland permits abortion after 16 weeks if the fetus has a deformity -- and Down syndrome is included in this category.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; bioethics; death; downsyndrome; eugenics; iceland; prolife
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Totally agree.


41 posted on 08/15/2017 8:13:56 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: hsmomx3

Yeah, I totally agree.


42 posted on 08/15/2017 8:15:29 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: utahagen

Absolutely. The left would be totally opposed to babies being aborted if they had the “gay” or “fat” genes.


43 posted on 08/15/2017 8:18:30 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Ah, I love how the cheery headline makes it seem as though Downs is being miraculously cured through some means other than murder.


44 posted on 08/15/2017 8:21:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: EdnaMode

Ah, I love how the cheery headline makes it seem as though Downs is being miraculously cured through some means other than murder.


45 posted on 08/15/2017 8:21:00 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

what about using a gene splicer machine to alter a person’s gene’s at will. Want blond hair? presto, gene edited blond hair.


46 posted on 08/15/2017 8:27:14 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: EdnaMode

Christ have mercy.


47 posted on 08/15/2017 8:30:00 AM PDT by agere_contra (Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: EdnaMode

WOW!


48 posted on 08/15/2017 8:31:05 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Dilbert San Diego

As the Christian theologian R.C. Sproul says, “The norm becomes the normative. In other words,” he goes on to explain, “what is accepted soon becomes acceptable.”


49 posted on 08/15/2017 8:33:57 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (If we're going to look at nature to justify our actions, then I say let's start flinging poop around)
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To: Cicero

I ave know hundreds of Downs people. They were every single one an absolute blessing for their families. The death of these magnificent people is the murder of angels.


50 posted on 08/15/2017 8:48:29 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: FatherofFive

“A brave new world.”

With genetic engineering, it’s coming real fast.


51 posted on 08/15/2017 9:14:35 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: TMD

Prenatal genetic repair would be worth celebrating. This is eugenics.


52 posted on 08/15/2017 9:16:25 AM PDT by wtd
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To: cyclotic
The good mother is my friend who adopted a little girl who’s Ukrainian sperm donor and...

A little girl is a Ukrainian sperm donor and...???
How'szat??

53 posted on 08/15/2017 9:17:23 AM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: TMD

Saw it last night. Horrible. Disgusting.


54 posted on 08/15/2017 9:18:04 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: needmorePaine

It all starts when you reject God and continues from there. You can’t say “life is grey” when you have a God who has given you rules that are black and white.


55 posted on 08/15/2017 9:22:13 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: EdnaMode

May a million Sarahs flourish.

56 posted on 08/15/2017 9:28:05 AM PDT by xp38
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To: publius911

whose.

Sorry, both my grammars are dead.

I was referring to the scum who bore her then threw her away.


57 posted on 08/15/2017 9:40:46 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
Sound like they had to visit the lil boys room but had a stool softener so it ok.

“Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing...”

Inside the country where every person who is found to be defective genetically is drowned in saline solution then has its head and arms forcable ripped from its body.

Oh yeah. That sounds like a great place to live. Where do I sign up for my blood test?

58 posted on 08/15/2017 10:08:38 AM PDT by Delta 21
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To: EdnaMode
Using an ultrasound, blood test and the mother's age, the test, called the Combination Test, determines whether the fetus will have a chromosome abnormality, the most common of which results in Down syndrome.

So it sounds to me like they're just guessing. They don't know the kid has Dawn's, they just find a few factors that don't rule it out, and kill him anyway.
59 posted on 08/15/2017 10:16:07 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: steve8714

Genetic screening, I should think, is downstream (or up-slope to use your terms) from abortion on demand, which is completely unselective for abnormality.


60 posted on 08/15/2017 10:34:15 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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