{"id":175885,"date":"2017-12-06T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T19:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=175885"},"modified":"2017-12-06T16:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:11:21","slug":"denmark-down-syndrome-aborts-almost-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/denmark-down-syndrome-aborts-almost-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 24 babies with Down syndrome were born in Denmark last year \u2014 the rest were aborted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Denmark is objecting to the claim that it has an official government policy to eradicate Down syndrome in the country, the facts speak for themselves: early prenatal testing has led 98 percent of all children diagnosed prenatally in Denmark with Down syndrome to be aborted.<\/p>\n

According to The Irish Times<\/a>, Danish Ambassador to Ireland,\u00a0Carsten S\u00f8ndergaard, objected when a pro-lifer testified in defense of Ireland’s 8th Amendment (currently under fire from abortion advocates) that Denmark had a governmental policy “to eradicate Down Syndrome by abortion by 2030.” S\u00f8ndergaard said this is untrue… but in doing so, he inadvertently revealed that while it may not be the government’s ‘official policy’ to eliminate Down syndrome, the desire to find and diagnose Down syndrome (and other chromosomal disorders) seems to be resulting in the eugenic elimination of certain human beings.<\/p>\n

“In general it should be noted that it is not the policy of the Danish health authorities to eradicate Down\u2019s syndrome,” S\u00f8ndergaard wrote to the Oireachtas<\/a> committee, “but it is their duty to provide the pregnant woman with the best possible basis for her to make her own decision about her pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in 2015, the CPH Post Online reported<\/a> that “since\u00a02004 all pregnant women [in Denmark] have been offered a DS scan \u2013 called a nuchal scan \u2013 <\/span>and the number of abortions involving DS children has increased dramatically. Last year [2014], 98 percent of pregnant women who were revealed to be carrying an unborn child with DS chose to have an abortion.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A 2008 study on Danish women revealed<\/a> that “[t]he introduction of a combined risk assessment during the first trimester at a national level in Denmark halved the number of infants born with Down\u2019s syndrome.”<\/p>\n