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...
Preamble The States Parties to the present Convention, Recalling the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations which recognize the inherent dignity and worth and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DOWN SYNDROME ADVOCATES LAUNCH 'DON’T SCREEN US OUT' CAMPAIGN URGING GOVERNMENT TO HALT NEW SCREENING PROPOSAL The number of babies with Down Syndrome aborted is set to to increase following a decision released this morning. UK Down’s syndrome advocates have today launched...