“Eugenics is not a human right,” activists will declare at a meeting in Strasbourg, France this week, as Europe’s highest court considers a woman’s complaint that she was not given prenatal screening that would have alerted her to her daughter’s Down syndrome, thus giving her the choice of deciding whether or not to have an abortion.
European associations of people with Down syndrome will hold a round-table discussion on Thursday, hosted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), on the subject, “Eugenics and human rights, issues of prenatal screening.”...
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