All posts tagged "Down syndrome"
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1.5KAnalysisNew year looks to bring new pro-life legislation
The past few years have seen a record number of pro-life state laws passed, including tougher regulations on abortion clinics. Other laws...
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2.2KIssuesPrenatal screening shouldn’t equal a death sentence
What is the purpose of prenatal testing? Is it to let parents be informed of any potential health issues, or is it...
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2.3KOpinionMother of child with Down syndrome: She is “a blessing”
Christine Allison, whose daughter has Down syndrome, wrote the following in an article in the Human Life Review in 1989: Most women who choose to...
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1.5KNewsbreakISIS begins killing spree of children with Down syndrome
The Islamic State, the Middle Eastern terrorist organization commonly known as ISIS (or ISIL), is carrying out a fatwa targeting children with...
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2.5KIssuesI chose life for my baby born with half a heart – look at him now
We who speak up for pre-born lives are often accused of being uncaring, of “not understanding” special situations that might compel a...
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1.7KIssuesThe Congratulations Project: Encouraging parents of children with Down syndrome
Far too often, parents receiving a Down syndrome diagnosis for their children are given little support. One group of young adults aims to change that. At...
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1.6KIssuesWoman with Down syndrome becomes first to join sorority at Murray State
Alexis Cain has become the first member of a sorority at Murray State University in Kentucky to have Down syndrome. Her Alpha...
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1.4KNewsbreakTwelve-year-old with Down syndrome saves little sister’s life
Tomarra Richardson, a Michigan mother of three, tells the story of how her disabled daughter, 12-year-old Carin, saved her little sister from drowning...
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2.3KIssuesMiracle baby with ‘fatal’ brain tumor is going to live, doctors say
Diagnosed with both Down syndrome and fatal brain tumor while still in the womb, Abigail Jones was not expected to live long...
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3.3KIssues
Parents speak up: I was told to abort my baby
Last month, Yahoo printed an article by a mom who horrifyingly wrote that if she had known her daughter would have Down...
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12.6KIssuesBaby Rachel was never expected to live, but her parents refused abortion. Now, she’s 17.
When I graduated from college, I went into broadcast radio, but a few years later, when I moved to Chicago, I decided...
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1.9KIssuesPrincess Diana’s goddaughter fires back at reality star who said those with Down syndrome should be ‘put down’
When Domenica Lawson was born 20 years ago, Princess Diana, a friend of Lawson’s mother, asked if she could be the child’s...
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1.5K1Human Rights
Pressured to abort her baby, one mother fights for an end to discrimination
Rachel Mullen is fighting hard for the right to life for children diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome. She knows firsthand how preborn...
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3.0K24Issues
Parents choose life for daughter diagnosed prenatally with cancer and Down syndrome
On August 6th, Erika and Stephen Jones welcomed their second daughter into the world. But as joyous of an occasion as it...
