Tell parents 'the full truth' in relation to Down Syndrome diagnoses, one father appeals.
The father of a man with Down Syndrome has appealed to hospitals to give potencial parents more support following a diagnosis.
"I don’t have a view on whether that is the right thing. We don't advocate for it, that is just the lived experience," he added. "Conor is very defensive about the fact, and very proud of the fact, that he has Down Syndrome," he said."He was quite upset by the comments by Prof Malone that 95% of parents choose abortion; or as he put it in his letter: I don’t understand why people take away babies with Down Syndrome – it's very unfair and very wrong is what he said.
"There was an Irish study done just last year which said that the information given to parents, when a diagnosis was given, was too medically orientated.
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