A Father struggles with the birth of his Downs Syndrome daughter, “’If she dies as a result of her surgery the pain will be over for all of us,’ we thought.” “It’s a girl!” The nurse announced. After the birth of seven healthy sons, those words should have brought great joy. Under different circumstances, I would have done back flips. Instead, […]
Down’s Syndrome
Disposable People
At first I thought it was the article about the Canadian mother who received a letter from a neighbor suggesting she should euthanize her autistic son which prompted me to write today’s blog. Maybe it was my recent discovery that 92% of babies determined to have Down’s Syndrome are aborted by their parents. It could have been the alarming lack […]