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Christine Allison, whose daughter has Down syndrome, wrote the following<\/a> in an article in the\u00a0Human Life\u00a0Review<\/em>\u00a0in 1989:<\/p>\n

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Most women who choose to be tested [amniocentesis] will also choose to abort the baby if the test is positive. Some studies say the figure is 90%\u2026To muddy matters even more, the women who test are more often than not the mothers to be of \u2018wanted\u2019 babies. That is, I want you if you are the baby I want. The idea that a mother might ever choose to have or not have her child based on knowing something about her child \u2013 his I.Q., what he will look like, his emotional demeanor- defies all logic of the heart\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In one of the most poignant, fierce, and determined battles to live deeply and well, Down Syndrome people are breaking through the walls of their own retardation and grasping their world\u2026<\/p>\n

Unlike those who would abort them, these Down Syndrome people have accepted the dare of life, which is to live it. In California, an eleven year old girl writes her first line on a computer. She painstakingly taps out \u201cI like God\u2019s finest whispers.\u201d In Brooklyn, a Down fifth grader dashes off the bus to his mother with a report card from his yeshiva; he has earned average grades in all his classes and speaks and writes in three different languages. And then there\u2019s our Chrissie, who last week crawled seven paces for the saltine cracker her dad held outstretched to her. She had been battling for that saltine for two months\u2026 Chrissie is a blessing in a way a normal child is not. It is in describing her that the word \u201cspecial\u201d rises from banality and comes grippingly alive. That she may now be a member of the last generation of her kind, a group silently and methodically targeted for extinction, alarms my heart.<\/p>\n

Especially now, knowing as I do that when she is older, Chrissie will be able to read- and understand- what I have written.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Christine Allison \u201cA Child to Lead Us\u201d Human Life Review<\/em> Summer 1989<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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