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Iceland is close to eliminating Down syndrome births due to widespread prenatal screening tests and nearly 100% of women choosing an abortion in the case of a positive test for Down syndrome:
With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.
Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women -- close to 100 percent -- who received a positive test for Down syndrome terminated their pregnancy.
While the tests are optional, the government states that all expectant mothers must be informed about availability of screening tests, which reveal the likelihood of a child being born with Down syndrome. Around 80 to 85 percent of pregnant women choose to take the prenatal screening test, according to Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik.
[...] Other countries aren't lagging too far behind in Down syndrome termination rates. According to the most recent data available, the United States has an estimated termination rate for Down syndrome [open, DOI: 10.1002/pd.2910] [DX] of 67 percent (1995-2011); in France it's 77 percent (2015); and Denmark, 98 percent (2015). The law in Iceland permits abortion after 16 weeks if the fetus has a deformity -- and Down syndrome is included in this category.
The Prenatal Diagnosis link in the summary was replaced with a working version.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:01PM (3 children)
Which space is full of...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:15PM (1 child)
That's why space is abhorrent. After all, we haven't sent humans past LEO since 1972.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:54PM
I don't know about the abhorrence of space, but I can assure you:
1. the space is vacuous and naturally so
2. humans seem to be more abhorrent (and not only in regards with space) as the time passes and the space grows
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:14PM
Not really. It is "vacuum" as in exrtemely low density (lower than any "vacuum" we can produce on earth), but it is not vacuum as in nothing at all. You even have a speed of sound in space! [stackexchange.com]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.