Downs syndrome and the human ity of unborn children.

Doctors routinely advise moms expecting a baby with Downs syndrome to abort the child: often they insist that the child will never grow up, never be able to care for himself, or read or write. ,

in reality, the IQ is usually 40 points lower than the parents, so this is not always true.

So I am seeing Netflix had a series about adults with Down's syndrome facing dating, adulthood, etc.

this mother of a Down's syndrome baby is a bit sceptical of the series for ignoring that alas they are overestimating the challenges for these people, and the challenges that their parents face.

and few realize the medical problems that these children face: in the past, most died because of immune system problems, but now live thanks to antibiotics. But they also have an increased chance of developing leukemia, hypothyroidism, and develop Alzheimers at an early age.

thanks (/s) to abortion, it is rare to see a child with Down's syndrome in the USA, but we have one here who is an altar boy in our Catholic church, and one young woman who used to beg all the time and was living with family was moved to a home when her parent died.

when I was in medical school they were not sure what caused the problem: Until a doctor Jreome LeJeune discovered it was due to an extra chromosome.

his realization that his discovery might not benefit these children, but be a way to destroy their lives, horrified him. Indeed, as this film review notes:The meteoric rise of this young French scientist will be be stopped in a flash in 1969. While receiving the William Allen Award in San Francisco, the highest award in genetics, he delivered a speech defending the human dignity of the embryo, causing an earthquake in the scientific sphere. A few months before, he realized that his discovery would be used against his convictions, by opening the door to abortion of embryos with genetic abnormalities

since then, of course, not only is screening and aborting imperfect children become the norm, but now there are experiments with fetal part, using fetal tissue to make stem cells for vaccines, and manipulating embryos: all of which do not see an unborn child as a person recognized and love by God, but just a bunch of cells to be manipulated for the good of mankind ( or actually out of scientific curiosity by amoral scientists). It says a lot about stem cells that it was a non Christian Japanese scientist who started worrying about destroying life in these experiments, so he found a way to use adult stem cells to do the same thing.

Ethics? No. Because bioethics is merely a way to justify what they want to do.

well, anyway, Vaticanista reporter Magister notes that LeJeune warned John Paul II and the Vatican about the implications of his discovery: but that in more recent years, although Pope Francis does mention the problems, it is no longer a priority.

I mean, hey who cares if damaged children are killed in the womb, or aborted baby parts are sold, or if fetal tissue from children killed in early gestation is used to make or test vaccines, or if assisted reproduction not only ignores the philosophical implications of a child as a fruit of love, but also results in hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos who will never be given a chance of life, not to mention outsourcing babies for the affluent: some are volunteers, but most of these are third world poor women who will carry them to term for the affluent first world moms who are either infertile or can't be bothered to do this.

Magister includes his talk in\warning of this:

(From “Jérôme Lejeune. The freedom of the scientist,” pp. 386-393)

the cutting edge back then was IFV, where embryos are made outside the womb and replanted into a woman who is infertile and wants a baby. Babies are good, aren't they? But no one wants to see the problem: It makes the embryo a commodity to be discarded if imperfect or not needed, and it destroys the idea that a child is a product of love making: and this is at a time when the pill already made having children an enemy of sexual freedom.

A number of journalists continue to ask Jérôme about the instruction, and his replies include the following [...]: “Cardinal Ratzinger, with ‘Donum vitae,’ is telling men the moral truth in an attempt to protect them from a formidable abuse of technology capable of leading to a total collapse of conduct. Reread Huxley’s Brave New World, reread Goethe and the second Faust and you will see the immense need for the appeal of ‘Donum vitae’.” “You who are for the family will be laughed at. The specter of science, apparently gagged by an outdated morality, will wave against you the tyrannical flag of relentless experimentation. Bishops, have no fear. You have the words of life.”

Magister \notes that although the present Pope Francis does condemn these things, he does so quietly and it is not his priority.