Girl with Down Syndrome stuns politicians with powerful speech about her ‘right to be alive’

On May 31, Slate.com published a three-thousand-word essay titled “Choosing Life with Down Syndrome,” authored by freelance journalist Ruth Graham.

The essay, which lurched back and forth between the personal stories of parents struggling to decide what to do upon discovering that their pre-born child probably had Down Syndrome and the implications these scenarios are having for the abortion debate, contained a few chilling facts, as well.

In Denmark, for example, Down Syndrome is headed for “extinction” with a 98% abortion rate for those children diagnosed with chromosomal disorder through prenatal testing.

In the United Kingdom, over 90% of pre-born children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted, and numbers are similar for much of the rest of Europe. Irish pro-life activists made this a part of their outreach strategy in the days leading up to the abortion referendum on May 25, with many signs simply showing a beautiful child with Down Syndrome and the words, “Abortion discriminates.” In the United States, just over 75% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted. In Iceland, one geneticist told CBS News last year, “we have basically eradicated, almost, Down Syndrome from our society.”

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