Popular discourse about Down Syndrome is inexorably tied to abortion debates, and understandably so. In Australia, non-invasive pre-natal testing for Down Syndrome was celebrated in 2017 on 60 Minutes as making possible a world without Down Syndrome. Some places, such as Iceland and Denmark, have a 97 and 100 percent rate of abortions after pre-natal screening shows that an unborn child has Down Syndrome. Writing in the Washington Post in 2018, conservative George F. Will called this “genocide,” before noting that the United States of America is not too far behind, with 67 percent of pregnancies ending in abortion after pre-natal screening indicated the unborn child had Down Syndrome.
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