SUCH an offensive article....

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It was the Daily Torygraph - got it as a freebie from Hay Festival, otherwise I'd never buy it. A piece in there by a chap who has got a kid with Downs. And he made this comment about how his wife is twigging that all these 'celebrities' have really late miscarriages... and isn't it weird that they can happen at the time when tests show up Downs etc etc...

The obvious implication from his article was that slebs are aborting foetuses / babies (call them what you want, that's not the point of my post) because they have Downs.

I read it this morning and this evening just got SO annoyed by this. What an awful thing to write. It's totally his opinion, it's NOT based on fact - how fucking Torygraphy is that anyway... lots of innuendo and suggestion, rather then factual reporting...

Imagine if you were a sleb / non-sleb who has had a late m/c - and you read this piece. I can't even begin to imagine how it might make you feel. If you did abort for that reason, it's not like you need an additional guilt trip, FFS, and if it was a spontaneous m/c, you don't need to read a loathesome piece like it either.

Grrrr. Did anybody else read it? Am I being too sensitive here?

I couldn't name more than about 20 hollywood stars though, it's not like there's 10,000 of them and none of them have a child with a disability. TBH with their money if they do have a child with a disability they could keep it away from the press quite easily. Of course whether they'd be right to do that or not is another question.

I just don't think that the fact that you can't think of any hollywood stars with children with disabilities means that you can imply that the are all involved in personal eugenics plans. It just seems a bit of a leap. I mean I probably have about 20 friends and none of us have children with (serious, noticeable to the naked eye) disabilities - we're not aborting babies left right and centre.

Oh, that is horrible. What a disgusting thing to say.

I don't think they know what causes late miscarriages, do they. That's what I read in the papers anyway. There are an awful lot of people going though this all the time, the numbers are staggering. It's so sad.

I agree, Sardine... I have had a friend lose a baby at 17wks, then worked with ladies who lost them at 5 and 6 months.
It's weird - you get pregnant and think 'this is it' and you have just NO idea of the number of things that can go wrong.

Makes me supremely relieved that I am done with increasing our family's carbon footprint...! We've had three and lost three and I just would HATE to be in the position where you open the papers and have a revolting piece like that hit you with no warning.

Moreover, I can't find the article now so I can't complain. The Times doesn't let you see ANYTHING online either :-(