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Down Syndrome: Toward More Successful Advocacy
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Down Syndrome: Toward More Successful Advocacy

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by and on Dec 21, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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As word spread of a new non-invasive, highly accurate prenatal test for Down syndrome, MaterniT21, the headlines could hardly have been more sensational: The End of Down Syndrome! Will We Cull Those with Down Syndrome? Are Kids with Down Syndrome on the Road to Extinction? This mainstream response seems to suggest a terrible acknowledgment of what happens […]

Hope After Poor Prenatal Diagnosis
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Hope After Poor Prenatal Diagnosis

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by and on Dec 10, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics, MyChurchParish.com
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Parents who receive news that their unborn child has a serious birth defect, genetic syndrome, or other ­medical complication are often left to sort out their responses on their own. As co-founders of the network Be Not Afraid, for almost ten years, we have had the privilege of ­supporting parents who carry their babies to […]