Preview: Down Dilemma

Over the past decade, Iceland has virtually eliminated new cases of Down syndrome through widespread use of genetic testing. But some are troubled by a society that can "pick and choose" which children get born. Elaine Quijano went to Iceland to look at the impact for "CBSN: On Assignment."

[jesusisjehovah]

Mormons teach Downs syndrome children were born that way because of there non-valiant life in the mythical pre-existence
 What Mormons  teach about the birth of a handicapped  Child and minorities especially in third world countries
"This privilege of obtaining a mortal body on this earth is seemingly so priceless that those in the spirit world, even though unfaithful or not valient, were undoubtedly permitted to take mortal bodies although under penalty of racial or physical or nationalistic limitations...." (Decisions for Successful Living pp 164-165) TLDP: 497- Harold B.
“There is no truth more plainly taught in the Gospel than that our condition in the next world will depend upon the kind of lives we live here. …Is it not just as reasonable to suppose that the conditions in which we now live have been determined by the kind of lives we lived in the pre-existent world of spirits? That the apostles understood this principle is indicated by their question to the Master when the man who was blind from his birth was healed of his blindness, ‘Master, who did sin, this man or his parents that he was born blind?’ (John 9:2.) Now perhaps you will have a partial answer to some of your questions as to why, if God is a just Father, that some of his children are born of an enlightened race and in a time when the Gospel is upon the earth, while others are born of a heathen parentage in a benighted, backward country; and still others are born to parents who have the mark of a black skin with which the seed of Cain were cursed and whose descendants were to be denied the rights of the priesthood of God”
(Harold B. Lee, Decisions for Successful Living, pp. 164-165).

[SolviKaaber]

Yeah this shouldn't be an issue, almost everyone in Iceland is Pro-choice and any other position in the abortion debate is just silly. A woman has every right to her body and what she wants to do with it and having your citizens informed always leads to a better society. If pregnant women can make the choice to get a test which shows whether or not the baby will likely have down syndrome, she of course should get that test, and no matter what the test shows, she still has her rights on her own body if she wants to have an abortion. Stop painting this as a moral issue ffs.