by Lynn Murray | Apr 19, 2016 | Media
A MOTHER flew the flag for the North-East at a Westminster demonstration urging the Government to reconsider a screening test which campaigners say discriminates against people with Down syndrome. Down syndrome charity founder Maggie Hart, of Middleton St George,...
by Lynn Murray | Apr 18, 2016 | Media
PARENTS held a rally to raise awareness of the “ignorance” surrounding children with Down Syndrome. About 15 families gathered in Centenary Square, Bradford, where they held a banner saying “We all belong, please don’t screen us out.” The...
by Lynn Murray | Jan 27, 2016 | Media
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 it will encourage...
by Lynn Murray | Jan 27, 2016 | Media
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 are....
by Lynn Murray | Jan 26, 2016 | Media
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’]
by Lynn Murray | Jan 21, 2016 | Media
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...
