[Cherry Christmas]

Originally Posted by Isaiah 7:14

With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.

Since prenatal screening tests were introduced in Iceland in the early 2000s, the vast majority of women -- very close to 100 percent who received a positive test for Down syndrome terminated their pregnancy.

And other countries are close behind

So nearly 100 percent of the 80 to 85 percent of people who take the test and test positive for Down Syndrome choose to abort their pregnancy. There are similar termination rates after fetal diagnoses of Down syndrome in other European countries. In Denmark, for example, the rate is about 98 percent, CBS News reported. In the United States, for comparison’s sake, the rate of mothers choosing to terminate their pregnancy after receiving a Down syndrome diagnosis is about 68 percent.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/


This is good news going forward?

They must be aborting babies on a percentage of having a Downs baby though, I had a friend and she was given an high change of her baby having Downs but she went through with the pregnancy and the child is fine, so unless the diagnosis has changed the choice is still the same, make a decision based on a percentage, not an easy thing to do