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  • Column: Palin’s son transforming her to anti-abortion star


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    Writing on Politico.com, Ben Smith says Sarah Palin is transforming herself into the leading figure of the anti-abortion movement, thanks largely to the presence of “her disabled son, Trig.” Palin’s youngest child was born with Down syndrome after his mother received a prenatal diagnosis.Smith says Trig has been ...
    6 days ago

  • U.S. study finds prevalence of Down syndrome births up sharply


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    From Pediatrics, Reuters/ABC:The prevalence of Down syndrome at birth rose by more than thirty percent in 10 U.S. regions from 1979 to 2003, according to new work by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that nearly 12 babies per 10,000 born ...
    1 week ago

  • Op-ed: ‘Sarah Palin and Me’


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    Lon Jacobs, general counsel for the News Corporation and a pro-choice Democrat, writes in the Wall Street Journal that he empathized with Sarah Palin when she spoke in an interview last week about the “cruel attacks on her son Trig.”Jacobs, whose 13-year-old daughter has an intellectual disability, says he ...
    1 week ago

  • Palin on receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome


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    ‘Before the birth of son Trig, Palin says she knew the abortion option was there’From ABC News (with video):In an interview to be aired on “20/20,” former Alaska governor Sarah Palin tells Barbara Walters about her decision to continue her pregnancy after tests revealed that her baby would have Down syndrome. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Hospice program assists parents with prenatal diagnoses


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    From the Grand Rapids [MI] Press:The Perinatal Care Program provided by Hospice of Michigan offers comfort and guidance to families coping with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting condition. (At left, Jody Kyser and her daughter Chloe, who had Trisomy 18).The program is one of only four in the state that offers ...
    5 weeks ago

  • ABC: Down syndrome births down in U.S.


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    ‘As more than 90 percent of women carrying a child with DS choose to end pregnancies, parents raising these kids say they’re a ‘gift”In its coverage of recent research documenting widespread terminations of pregnancies involving Down syndrome, ABC News shifts its focus to the growing concern that women are ...
    5 weeks ago

  • ‘The human cost of screening for DS’


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    Writing in the [UK] Guardian, columnist Tom Shakespeare says the statistics on Down syndrome diagnoses mask the “human cost” of the UK’s prenatal screening program.Shakespeare supports a woman’s right to choose, as well as the right to terminate a pregnancy in which Down syndrome is diagnosed. But he says ...
    6 weeks ago

  • In their own words: Perspectives on Down syndrome


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    Caring for a Down’s Syndrome child — [UK] TelegraphSue Hare, 48, says of her son, Will:Now that Will is nearly five years old, it’s impossible to look at him without thinking that he is the most perfect child imaginable. Having a child with Down’s syndrome is not a punishment; that one extra chromosome ...
    6 weeks ago

  • UK doctor advocates ‘opt-in’ system for DS testing


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    From the [UK] Daily Mail:Leading obstetrician Robert Llewellyn says pregnant women in the UK should be given more counseling before opting to test for Down syndrome.At present, he said the National Health Service has what amounts to an ‘opt out’ system, in which mothers are screened for Down’s at 12 weeks ...
    6 weeks ago

  • ‘The upside of Down syndrome’


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    Writing in the [UK] Guardian, Carol Boys says she supports a woman’s right to choose whether to have a child with a disability, but cherishes her own son with Down syndrome. An excerpt:Some might say that because I didn’t have a choice when my son Alex was born 25 years ago, I don’t know what [...]
    6 weeks ago

  • ‘Would you abort a baby with Down syndrome?’


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    Interviews with two women in the [UK] Daily Mail:Political journalist Julia Langdon, 63, opted for an abortion after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome 25 years ago. She says the decision left her “sorrowful,” but was “the right thing to do.” An excerpt:For me, the decision – and it was mine and ...
    6 weeks ago

  • Terminations for DS lower in Ireland, where it is ‘more accepted’


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    From the Irish Times:A leading Irish obstetrician estimates that termination rates for Down syndrome in Dublin stand at between 50 and 70 percent, far less than the 92 percent rate reported for England and Wales in a recent study.Fergal Malone, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Rotunda Hospital and Royal ...
    6 weeks ago

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