A DOWN syndrome charity founder is set for a Westminster protest in response to a screening programme which campaigners say could lead to "informal eugenics". Mother-of-three Maggie Hart will represent the North-East as she joins members of the Don't Screen Us Out campaign to speak at...
Join people with Down’s syndrome, their families, and the wider community outside Parliament, as we send a message loud and clear to Jeremy Hunt and the Government that: 1/ Proposals to introduce a new pre-natal screening test that is projected to lead to a profound reduction...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On World Down’s Syndrome Day, parents and campaign groups are calling on Jeremy Hunt to reject a new pre-natal screening proposal that is projected to lead to a profound reduction in the number of children born with Down’s syndrome. The new...
Emma Lowe, from Preston, was told it was a one in a million chance that her twins would have Down's syndrome. As the NHS offers a new Down’s syndrome blood test, mum of ‘one in a million’ Down’s twins, Emma Lowe, 36, of Preston, Lancashire says...
As the NHS offers a new Down’s syndrome blood test, mum of ‘one in a million’ Down’s twins, Emma Lowe, 36, of Preston, Lancashire says it will encourage more terminations "I’m sure every parent thinks their kids are one in a million, but my twin boys really...
BBC Radio interviews a mother from Wallingford along with Don't Screen Us Out spokeswomen Lynn Murray on cfDNA screening and the Don't Screen Us Out campaign. [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/fyWfh6xRM7E'] ...
A simple new blood test that greatly facilitates the detection of Down Syndrome in unborn children may spell the “extinction” of Down Syndrome people, an article in the Telegraph suggests, since around 90 per cent of those performing the test end up aborting their babies. In...
Society doesn't do enough to show women carrying a baby with Down's that the life inside them is precious, intelligent and capable of so much. A painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York called The Adoration of the Christ Child. Created in the...
A painting hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York called The Adoration of the Christ Child. Created in the 16th century by a Flemish artist, what stands out in this sublime presentation of the Nativity is the detail of the characters standing around the...
To view the full article in the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation click here. Janet E. Lord Abstract The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities introduces a disability narrative into the human rights framework and, in so doing, confronts various tensions within...