Down Syndrome

A pro-choice doctor just made a case for not aborting children with Down syndrome. But his case needs to be better.

"If anyone has ever had the arms of a Down syndrome child or adult wrapped around your necks, you will know that you have encountered profound love that comes from the heart.”

The House of Representatives passed legislation Monday that would end abortions based on the diagnosis and presumption of Down syndrome.

While countries such as Iceland are aborting babies with Down Syndrome, a one-year-old from Georgia is the first child with Down syndrome to win the Gerber Spokesbaby contest.

Lucas Warren is eighteen months old and lives in Dalton, Georgia. He was chosen this week to be Gerber’s new “Spokesbaby of the year.” Lucas was selected from more than 140,000 entries in the company’s photo search contest. He is the first child with Down syndrome to be chosen.

Pro-life advocates are applauding the Ohio legislature’s passage of a bill to ban abortions of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome. They expect a signature from Gov. John Kasich within the next week or so.

Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis was pleased to have Senate bill 164 move one step closer to outlawing the abortion of a child with Down Syndrome.

When she told her midwife at her next appointment that she was going to keep her baby, the midwife responded with tears, saying “No one ever keeps the babies with Downs.”

One Scandinavian country’s treatment of the vulnerable is a barometer for where the rest of the world is headed.

Why am I writing about Down syndrome today? Because the lives of these precious people are more endangered than ever before.