Category: Down Syndrome

Written and directed by Ross White, ‘An Irish Goodbye’ has now made it to the shortlist of 15 (from over 200 films) for an Academy Award nomination in the live-action short film category. 5 films will be picked at the end of January from that shortlist to be nominated for the Award. Read the whole …

By Right to Life UK An Irish man with Down’s syndrome has delivered a letter to the Master of Rotunda Hospital saying that abortion on the grounds of Down’s syndrome was “very wrong” and “unfair”. The letter was delivered in the aftermath of an Irish Times interview with Professor Fergal Malone at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. …

By Right to Life UK Former UK Defence Secretary, Liam Fox MP, has said that the abortion laws in the UK are “far too liberal” and that abortion up to birth for babies with Down’s syndrome is “absolutely horrendous”. In response to a question in an interview with GB News about whether he still held to his previously …

By Michael Cook  The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge brought by a woman with Down syndrome against a provision of the Abortion Act which allows unborn children with a disability to be aborted up until birth. Heidi Crowter, a 27-year-old woman who has Down syndrome, joined with Maire Lee-Wilson, whose son …

By Michael Cook  The UK Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge brought by a woman with Down syndrome against a provision of the Abortion Act which allows unborn children with a disability to be aborted. Heidi Crowter, a 27-year-old woman who has Down syndrome, joined with Maire Lee-Wilson, whose son Aidan has Down …

By Bridget Sielicki An 18-year-old young woman from Windsor, England, is on a mission to change the country’s discriminatory abortion laws. Millie Anna Prelogar, who has Down syndrome, says she was “shocked” and “offended” when she learned that it was legal to abort children until birth in her country due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. Prelogar …

Dubbed ‘Chloe’s Law,’ new legislation mandates that pregnant women be provided with positive information about Down syndrome. By Lisa Bast Kurt Kondrich’s dream was to serve his community as a police officer, delaying marriage while fulfilling his goals. When he married his wife Margie, the couple wasn’t sure they could have children – but at …

By Eileen Haupt Editor’s note.  Down Syndrome Awareness Month ended yesterday, but this essay, which ran in 2019, is so excellent that I hope you won’t mind me running it a day late. Down Syndrome Awareness Month is a time, according to The Jerome Lejeune Foundation, when “we applaud caregivers, families, and medical professionals — …

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month, a time, according to The Jerome Lejeune Foundation, when “we applaud caregivers, families, and medical professionals — but most of all, we applaud all the wonderful people with Down syndrome.” All during October we’ll be running many new and previously published stories. This one …

By David Lejeune, President, James LeJeune Foundation USA Editor’s note. October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month, a time to celebrate individuals who carry an extra 21st chromosome and to raise awareness about this most common genetic condition. This ran in 2021. Sadly, people with genetic disorders, and Down syndrome in particular, are often aborted simply …

By Sarah Terzo From the mother of a child with Down syndrome: “I hate the thought that there will be fewer people with Down syndrome in the world as a result of advances in prenatal testing. As I’ve written before, it impoverishes us all when we selectively abort babies based upon particular characteristics (gender, for …