Dear editor,
“They are children that don’t bother much,” asserts Maria Victoria Troncoso, who in 1976 gave birth to a precious girl with Down syndrome. One out of 800 babies are born with the disease from mothers.
However, Europe is experiencing a particular silent, yet tragic, phenomenon: the pregnancy age in general is increasing, while births with Down syndrome are decreasing. Why this oddity?
Part of this statistical irregularity may be explained in a couple of words: births of babies with Down syndrome are decreasing, because they are aborted once pregnant mothers are informed of their condition. They are human beings heading toward extinction.
To that extent, a publication made by the New England Journal of Medicine, informed of a project conducting a new non-invasive test that will allow the discovery of the disorder at three months into the pregnancy. The test has an accuracy of 87 percent.
A medical prescription that had facilitated the birth of Ana’s son proved the novelty: her son was to be born with Down syndrome. Ana turned to her husband and told him: “We must attempt for the third one.” The third one, Javier, was born disorder free.
Are we returning to an already extinct era, where human life is not worth living due to a neural and/or physical disability or illness?
We are literally vegetating toward a moral decline, in which “parents to be” consent for the killing of their unborn children for having been destined with physical and/or neural peculiarities.
This reasoning and lack of ethics and morals are of extreme offense and violation to human life, which root themselves down upon ignorance. Down syndrome is not an aesthetic dilemma, it is instead about the unborn and defenseless babies being held responsible for actions not within their control.
Clemente Ferrer
President of the European Institute of Marketing in Spain