Pro-choice, Pro-Information, Anti-Eugenics
By David Perry,
ThisMess.net
| 06. 23. 2014
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Yesterday I published
a guest post by Nancy McCrea Iannone, an expert on Down syndrome and pregnancy.
I would like you, please, to go read it and share it. Independent blogs like mine need your help to spread the word on any given message.
The post talked about an assault on the pro-information coalition by anti-abortion activists and legislators in Louisiana. Pro-information stands for the many pro-life AND pro-choice people who have come together to try and change how the pre-natal diagnosis is being presented.
We know that at least some of the very high percentage of terminations after a pre-natal diagnosis of Down syndrome take place after being told things that are either simply false or skew towards the negatives. We know that doctors deliver the diagnosis, then ask, "so would you like me to schedule a termination for you?" We know we can do this better, and we are, thanks to the efforts of so many.
It happens with post-natal diagnoses too. When Nico was born, in that terrifying and grief-stricken first hour, we were given...
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