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‘This law makes me feel I am better off dead’: UK court hears Down syndrome abortion law challenge

July 09, 2021

London, England, Jul 7, 2021 / 08:05 am. A woman with Down syndrome said on Tuesday that a U.K. law allowing abortion up to birth for disability made her feel that she was “better off dead.” Heidi Crowter, a 26-year-old from Coventry, in central England, made the comment outside the High Court in London on

The Pro-Life Movement Does Not Go Cheap

February 09, 2021

Herself the mother of a developmentally disabled man who's aged out of care, Maria McFadden argues that the pro-life movement does more for them than Roberto Rivera argued in his "The Pro-Life Movement Goes Cheap."

The Pro-Life Movement Goes Cheap

February 03, 2021

Any resemblance between the ends of Catholic social teaching and the priorities of the existing pro-life movement is imaginary. Nowhere is this disjunction clearer than in the pro-life movement’s regard — or lack thereof — of the intellectually and developmentally disabled.

Aborting unborn children with Down syndrome is ‘genocide’, UN told

March 23, 2018

'This is a prenatal death sentence given to people who are completely innocent,' a speaker said

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/16

November 22, 2016

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This film destroys the negative propaganda about Down syndrome in just two minutes

March 21, 2014

The viral video 'Dear Future Mom' is a rare, life-enhancing contribution to the debate about disability

Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/02/12

February 24, 2012

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