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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 27 > When Down syndrome is forgotten

When Down syndrome is forgotten

By Beverly Beckham / The Bulletin
September 27, 2009

My granddaughter Lucy is 6 years old and is part of a class of people that is quietly being eliminated in my country. She has Down syndrome, a genetic condition that frightens so many women that 92 percent of those who learn they are carrying babies with it choose to abort.

Dr. Brian Skotko, a....

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