Down Syndrome

On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that a Tennessee law banning abortions due to an unborn baby’s race, sex or a Down syndrome diagnosis can be enforced.

A recent Christian Post article described how women, 69 percent of the time, are immediately offered an abortion when their child is diagnosed with Down Syndrome in utero. If they decline, they are asked again. And often, again. One woman reported being asked fifteen times! Government policies in countries like Iceland and Denmark have resulted in only a handful of children with Down Syndrome born each year. In fact, about 90 percent of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome in Europe are aborted. In the U.S., the best estimates are about 65 percent.

Chris Nikic recently made history after he became the first man with Down Syndrome to complete the Ironman Triathalon. In a post celebrating the accomplishment, Nikic thanked God for surrounding him with angels.

Pro-life activists are suing the U.K. government over the legalization of Down syndrome abortions up until birth.

Amy Coney Barrett is a pro-life justice whose youngest child received a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. It might be easy to conclude that Barrett continued her pregnancy in order to live up to her ideology. But it is both overly simplistic and unfair to other parents of children with Down syndrome to conflate Barrett’s legal positions with her family choices.

President Trump issued a proclaimation on Thursday recognizing National Down Syndrome Awareness Month.

All 15 judges assembled at the 6th circuit to hear Ohio's arguments for and against Ohio's Down syndrome abortion ban.

The Justice Department is encouraging an appeals court to uphold an Ohio law prohibiting abortions based on Down Syndrom diagnoses. 

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an appeal of an Ohio state law banning abortions based on a Down syndrome diagnosis.

Pennsylvania's governor Tom Wolf vetoed a bill last week that would have made it illegal for women to abort their babies because the baby tested positive for down syndrome.