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Controversy surrounds abortions for Downs syndrome in Iceland
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- August 16, 2017
Every pregnant woman in Iceland is given an option of a prenatal test that can detect Down syndrome with 85 percent accuracy. “Nearly 100 percent” of pregnancies that tested positive for Down syndrome were aborted.
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The first laundry with Down syndrome workers in Latin America
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- May 30, 2017
In line with previous initiatives worldwide, the Church in Chile launched “Lavandería 21,” that hires people with Down Syndrome. Three years later, the initiative is still going strong and is currently expanding.
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Marchers for life in Washington link abortion, immigration as pro-life causes
- Church in the US
- January 27, 2017
For some participants, the annual March for Life on Friday in Washington, D.C., offered an opportunity to link the struggle against abortion with what they regard as another pro-life issue – the plight of immigrants in the United States. Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Salina, Kansas, said, “All bishops are deeply concerned for the lives and well-being of immigrants.”
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Why I’ll never stop fighting for children with Down syndrome
- Commentary
- December 29, 2016
Some countries are now entering a new era of discrimination against children with Down syndrome. It’s one thing to protect the legal right to have an abortion (as terrible as that is), but it is quite another to insulate those who have such an abortion from the reality of what they have done.
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