Down Syndrome

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Get out your stripey socks

Mary O'Neill Le Rumeur | 20 March 2013 |

tags: bioethics, Down syndrome

... and celebrate World Down Syndrome Day. It's time to explode the myths and fears that surround this condition.

Will Down Syndrome children disappear?

Dominic Perrottet | 21 March 2012 |

tags: bioethics, Down syndrome

March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day. Let's celebrate diversity!

My daughter’s paradoxical genes

Mark W. Leach | 24 October 2011 |

tags: abortion, Down syndrome, girls

Why are parents encouraged to abort Down syndrome children and banned from aborting girls?

Deselecting and selecting our children

Margaret Somerville | 30 August 2011 |

tags: Down syndrome, genetic testing

Is a society without disabled citizens really a perfect society?

How come you don’t want one?

Jan Gothard | 29 August 2011 |

tags: disability, Down syndrome, genetic screening

My daughter with Down syndrome has never been a source of shame to our family, but our lives would have been easier if people had been more understanding.

Follow the money

Mark W. Leach | 22 July 2011 |

tags: Down syndrome, prenatal screening

Is the elimination of children with Down syndrome the first sign of a new eugenics?

Pre-natal screening: where is the debate?

Stella McLeod | 16 December 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, New Zealand, prenatal testing

At the very least there should be a democratic debate on targeting Down syndrome babies for destruction.

Enough of ethnic cleansing in the womb

Mike Sullivan | 16 December 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, genocide, prenatal testing

A group of New Zealanders are calling authorities to account for a genocidal campaign.

No more “mental retardation”. So?

Leticia Velasquez | 29 November 2010 |

tags: abortion, Down syndrome, intellectual disability

I would prefer my daughter to be called a “retard" and know that abortion of babies with Down syndrome had ceased.

Count me in

Leticia Velasquez | 29 November 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, education, social inclusion

Christina has trisomy 21, but socially she makes her extra chromosome count.

The challenge of imperfection

Bill Muehlenberg | 22 July 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, eugenics, World Cup

Why are we exterminating Down syndrome children if they can bring so much joy?

Endangered species

Michael Cook | 13 October 2009 |

tags: Down syndrome, prenatal testing

Down Syndrome children are disappearing because of the popularity of do-it-yourself eugenics. 

Saintly scientists: Hate the disease, love the diseased

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 April 2007 |

tags: Down syndrome

The Frenchman who discovered trisomy 21 was heroically professional when he insisted it could be cured.

Diagnosing Down syndrome: please don’t say ‘sorry’

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 September 2005 |

tags: Down syndrome

Doctors are getting better at telling parents their baby has Down syndrome. According to research by a Harvard medical student, they need to.