Guess which group this describes?

The American Journal of Medical Genetics documents the results of a remarkable study of a particular people group that is not generally characterised by worry: “Among those surveyed, nearly 99% … indicated that they were happy with their lives, 97% liked who they are, and 96% liked how they look. Nearly 99% … expressed love for their families, and 97% liked their brothers and sisters.”

https://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/ups_and_downs

Yet despite this massive injection of happiness into our world, in the UK 90 per cent of those diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. NINETY PERCENT!!

One of the most evident features of many western democracies is the glaring fact that not all people are treated equally. And of all those glaring injustices the treatment of people with Downs Syndrome may be the worst.

The law in England, Wales and Scotland makes an exception to the 24-week time limit for abortion, permitting abortion all the way up to birth if there is ‘a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped’. That includes unborn children who have Down syndrome. 

This rule, Heidi argued, ‘tells me that I am not valued and of much less value than a person without Down syndrome’. She’s right. Current legislation stigmatises those living with Down syndrome by sending out a message their lives are not worth living and less valuable than the lives of the able-bodied.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-tragedy-of-selective-abortion-in-britain/

We can make the world a more equal, fairer and happier place by changing that law except we’re too selfish to do it.

And as an aside if you want to get more Christian thinkers mentioned in national media outlets then you can, like James Mumford in The Spectator, call them essayists & philosophers.