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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:41PM (2 children)
The amazing thing about guys like him is they try to keep their complete sociopathy under wraps, but when they say shit like this, it becomes so clear how completely psycho they are in part because they *don't* realize how psycho it is to say shit like that in print on a public forum. It's not so much what they say as why and where they say it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)
I thought he was going to propose that the US should fund for and raise down syndrome babies until maturity, and then let them take over that country and replace those people that aren't very good at westernized cultural IQ tests due to not having much more than their own culture to go by.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 17 2017, @06:00PM
Pssh, this is VLM we're talking about. The only reason he isn't going around goose-stepping and Sieg-Heil-ing is because he knows he'd get fired, beaten up, and jailed in not necessarily that order if he did. Look at the guy's post history; he'd be out there marching with the neo-Nazis if he weren't such a limp-wristed cuck (am I doin' that right)?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...