Writing in the Ottawa Citizen, Renate Lindeman says that the website for Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children carries misleading and negative information about Down syndrome. Such misinformation deprives women of the opportunity to make informed choices about their pregnancies, she says.

With only negative or misinformation available it is a sad but true statistic that over 90 per cent of parents in Canada choose abortion when faced with a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. As president of the Nova Scotia Down Syndrome Society I have seen the number of registrations of new babies drop an astonishing 85 per cent.

Is this the aimed objective? Today, in Canada, only those lucky enough to know someone with Down syndrome, stubborn enough to initiate their own research about Down syndrome, or those who are pro-life no matter what, will experience that a life with Down syndrome is a life worth living.

If we don’t speak up, life will indeed not go on for an entire population.

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