Disability Advocates Warn of Eugenic Drive to Eliminate People with Down SyndromeThomas D. Williams, Ph.D.1 Oct 2021
Advocates of persons with disabilities have warned of “plummeting” numbers of people with Down syndrome because they are being systematically eliminated through abortion, the Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
“In countries where early screening is routinely offered, almost all women opt to abort the affected unborn baby and try again,” states the article’s author, Lois Rogers. “The global Down’s syndrome population is therefore plummeting.”
While well-known utilitarians like Peter Singer and Richard Dawkins insist that mothers should abort their children with disabilities or genetic anomalies and “try again,” other bioethicists disagree, Rogers observes.
“It is extraordinary that instead of supporting our fellow human beings with Down’s syndrome, and their parents, unconditionally, we are inviting their parents to end their lives,” said Dr. Helen Watts of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre.
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