From a man whose partner was being tested to see if the child she carried had down syndrome or some other disability. He is describing children with down syndrome:
“It’s devastating, it’s a waste, all the love that goes into kids like that.”
Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 134
Sad to say, this attitude is all too common. It is part of why 90% of all women whose babies test positive for down syndrome abort their children. There is, however, a waiting list for adopting down syndrome children. It’s not that these babies are wanted, or that they are invaluable – it’s that their mothers and fathers won’t accept them.
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