Suffering has value, meaning and a purpose, and despite the world’s attitude that it should be avoided and eliminated, suffering is actually good news for Christians. This is the message that pro-life and disability advocate Colin Harte shared on the third anniversary of the death of a beloved disability rights and pro-life advocate, who herself…
Un hermoso vídeo llamado “querida futura mamá” ha sido prohibido por el French Broadcasting Council y por el French State Council, porque incluye a niños sonrientes con síndrome de Down. El galardonado video, producido en 2014, fue hecho para alentar y aliviar los temores de las madres embarazadas que han recibido un diagnóstico de síndrome…
The campaign Stop Discriminating Down has alerted the United Nations about a new prenatal genetic screening test primarily aimed at Down syndrome, namely, the Non Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT). The NIPT can potentially detect a range of genetic chromosomal conditions in an unborn child by analysing the blood of the mother. The formal purpose of…
Following the rejection by the Polish Parliament of the pro-life bill, the chairman of the conservatives (the governing party PiS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced on October 12th that the party will work to reduce the number of abortions carried out for reason of illness or disability. “Nowadays there are around 1.000 legal abortions in Poland: most…