Human Rights Groups Warn of Eugenics As European Court Mulls Down Syndrome Case

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By Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com

“Eugenics is not a human right,” activists will declare at a meeting in Strasbourg, France this week, as Europe’s highest court considers a woman’s complaint that she was not given prenatal screening that would have alerted her to her daughter’s Down syndrome, thus giving her the choice of deciding whether or not to have an abortion. . .

Latvian woman who give birth to a girl with Down syndrome in June 2002 is arguing that she should have been given a blood screening test as part of “prenatal care.” Anita Kruzmane argues that had she undergone the test, she would have been in a position to decide whether to go ahead with the pregnancy.

The European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, is acting as an intervener in the case. It is also helping to organize the meeting on Thursday, which Gregor Puppinck, director of the Strasbourg-based ECLJ, said “is intended to raise the awareness of institutions about the eugenic current of European society.”

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