{"id":166463,"date":"2017-05-27T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=166463"},"modified":"2017-05-30T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:44:00","slug":"woman-syndrome-address-un-right-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-syndrome-address-un-right-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman with Down syndrome addresses United Nations: ‘I have a right to live’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After watching the documentary “A World Without Down Syndrome<\/a>,” 21-year-old Charlotte Helene Fien, who has Down syndrome and autism, wrote a speech about her right to life that\u00a0she would later read in front of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

“In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis decided to get rid of all disabled people,” she said. “More than 200,000 disabled people were murdered, including many children with Down syndrome. Today the same thing is happening. A test that checks for Down syndrome is being used to kill all babies with Down syndrome. In Iceland, Denmark, and China, not a single baby with Down syndrome has been born for seven years. Seven years! The goal is to eradicate Down syndrome in the future. This makes me angry and very sad.”<\/p>\n

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