The far-left island nation of Iceland is raising international concerns after it was learned that the country has no Down syndrome adults or children because it has a de facto national policy to murder unborn children that are identified as having Down syndrome.
Iceland appears to be more proud of this fact than ashamed, as can be seen in this response from Ástríður Stefánsdóttir, a medical doctor and a professor in applied ethics at the University of Iceland, who coldly stated, “I’m not sure that our attitude is so different from other countries. It might just be that the decision is taken at another place in the process. Those who take the tests have already made up their mind that they are not going to have a baby with Trisomy 21. So if there is a [high] abortion rate, that’s not strange. Everyone goes into the system. We don’t have many pregnancies where women never have any touch with the medical system – I think I can say the number is zero.”
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(Live Action) — Iceland made international headlines years ago, when it was discovered that there is a nearly 100 percent abortion rate for babies diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome. And as nearly all pregnant women in Iceland undergo prenatal testing, that means Down syndrome is disappearing.
Fast-forward to the present day, and not much has changed – and Icelandic bioethics experts are beginning to get concerned.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently published an article investigating why Iceland has such a sky-high abortion rate; there, just two or three babies with Down syndrome are born each year. This is because approximately 85 percent of pregnant Icelandic women opt for prenatal testing, and when there is a positive result for Down syndrome, abortion is virtually always chosen.
