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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, MARCH 9, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Many prospective parents are waiting for years to adopt children with Down syndrome, according to a recent article in the Associated Press. So why is there an extended wait for kids with special needs, who are usually more difficult to place with families? The reason might be: the growing acceptance of aborting babies with Down syndrome. Elizabeth Schiltz, law professor at the University of St. Thomas and contributor to "The Cost of 'Choice': Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion" (Encounter Books), shared with ZENIT how aborting children with Down syndrome has not only become...

Taking their message as close to school campuses as they are legally allowed, local abortion opponents have been distributing information to students that compares abortion with racial lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan. About 15 members of a group called Teens for Life appeared late last week outside Rocklin High School and, as students entered campus, distributed brochures depicting a pointed white hood with the statement: "Lynching Is for Amateurs." "Planned Parenthood is accomplishing what the Klan could only dream about," the brochure states underneath a list of statistics about abortion rates among African American women. Typically, the group stands...

It all started around the turn of the last century in England and the United States. Under the leadership of social engineers such as Francis Galton and Charles Davenport, the eugenics movement became a powerful social force that had a stranglehold on the American psyche by the 1930s. What were called "Fitter Families" contests were held in many places across the nation. Fitter families were families with little or no incidences of physical or mental disability. Their ethnic heritage also had to be intact. Racial intermarriages resulted in disqualification. Thus, fitter families were strictly Caucasian. At the Kansas Free Fair...