USA – How Down Syndrome Became a New Front in the Abortion Wars

How Down Syndrome Became a New Front in the Abortion Wars
Families are being caught in the crossfire as states enact laws to ban Down syndrome-related abortions.

by Carter Sherman and Dan Ming
Feb 11 2020 (12 minute video)

When Ben and Marissa O’Donnell found out that their child would be born with Down syndrome, both of them knew that abortion was an option.

“In a moment like that, you go through mentally many dark hallways,” said Marissa O’Donnell, who lives in suburban Massachusetts about an hour outside Boston. “I didn't get so far down that hallway to a place of — where I felt like I didn't think that we could handle it. But I did sort of fall into a deep place of feeling like my life would be so different.”

Continued: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/y3mbvj/how-down-syndrome-became-a-new-front-in-the-abortion-wars