Deary me, did anybody read this piece about abortion by Caitlin Moran?

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Dare I post this link

Yes I know, there are a few cases in the UK as well.

Hard to believe, but this girl, her adoptive mother is in her mid-50s and also has adopted two other SN children.

Her sister also adopted two.

They enjoy going on holiday together and she basically really loves her life and her children.

this website is one of the most moving I've read . I honestly thought that trisomy 13 was completely incompatible with life until I came across the original story of the little boy- I can't find the website) and then this blew me away.

Also we are making absolutely massive strides in science and with genes. Look at today's headlines about gene stuff and possible treatment for thousands of genetic conditions.

Yes.
I had always understood, when I was young, that the life expectancy for children with DS was about 13...not nowadays. And who knows, maybe the heart condition your sister had was one which is routinely treatable now.
Bitter but fantastic.

Hrd to say. I know my father as a doctor over 40 years repeatedly had to decide who lived or died and when to intervene based on patient's views etc and the public just don't seem to realise that those decisions are taken all the time - not to kill but to what extent to resusitate, intervene etc. I'd much rather doctors and relatives/the patient decide that than Government. My father spent years helping DS children. When he left that role the chidlren at the centre made us a wonderful doll's house which I re-did up when my girls were little. So he would certainly have known all about those children. It's possible my parents had long conversations about to operate or not but I suspect my father and the other doctors decided.

I, and DP especially, work with people with learning difficulties including those with DS and it seems fair to say that many of the recent losses were in their 50s and died from complications with diabetes and obesity, not from any congenital heart defect.

Many disabled people died young as they just didn't receive the correct medical attention in the institutions they were kept in. Has anyone read Skalligrig?