This year I spent a long Easter weekend in the Spanish city of Burgos. I saw more people with Down’s syndrome or who were severely disabled in those few days than during a whole year in the UK. And it wasn’t a one-off – it’s something I have noticed before when visiting other Spanish cities. In Seville, I once found myself in a lively bar in which a table was packed with individuals who had Down’s syndrome downing their beers; a sight I have yet to see in the UK, where 90 per cent of people who know their unborn child will have Down’s syndrome choose an abortion, as the BBC reports.
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Sleepwalking into eugenics
From Down’s syndrome screening to assisted suicide, modern Britain is embracing choices that previous generations would have recognised as eugenic
James Jeffrey
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