I'm an American but studied abroad in Denmark for around 6 months. When I was there, I found out that the Nordic countries have virtually eradicated down syndrome by testing pregnant people for it. 99% choose to abort. How do you guys feel about this?
Personally this is quite disturbing to me. I've known people with down syndrome who live happy, quality lives. Even if it is up to the mother whether or not to abort, when it happens 99% of the time, is it not cultural eugenics? It seems the culture is almost afraid of taking care of a child with down syndrome. Especially in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, where the resources to take care of them are more widely available. If you could test for other things like autism, or even something like extreme depression, would yall do the same thing?
EDIT: I am strongly pro choice and I have talked to many American people on both sides of the political spectrum about this and they unanimously agree with me. On an individual level, I support everyones right to make their own decisions, but when it gets to the population level it becomes more of a cultural issue. There seems to be a cultural agreement that children with down syndrome are too difficult to care for. Does that make it ok to eradicate them? I honestly don't know
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The original was posted on /r/denmark by /u/queen_bs at 2024-03-13 15:12:18+00:00.
SchouDK at 2024-03-13 21:05:04+00:00 ID:
kuqj2fsNo the difference is WE KNOW and can see how F**ked USA is… half your country voted for a racist woman hating Cheeto clown and is actually thinking about doing it again. WE KNOW we are not perfect but for sure WE KNOW we are a overall more democratic, inclusive , safer, educated, healthy than your country. And that’s why we wanna discuss politics we you… it is not because we admire USA, not fluffing more anyway, it is because we when talking with Americans is reassured in perhaps we don’t have a paradise but we have it way better than “LAnd of the free”
And it is also based on the above it is really tiresome when a person starts by pointing finger and us and expect it to be a defence that you call yourself pro-life even though you don’t write a single comment where you say you understand that people don’t want a extra burden it is to have a child with downs. All you do is pointing fingers and accuse us of eugenics. And as a last remark it is grand to talk about how we handle downs in Denmark when half your country is against abort under any circumstance… even when it is a child who was raped.
2paulinator at 2024-03-14 08:06:23+00:00 ID:
kut1asuDu må altså gerne bande på internettet. Det tager lidt af seriøsiteten væk når du skriver noget så barnligt som