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Well, today is World Down Syndrome
Day. Yes, as you hear it,

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its main objective is to raise awareness
and defend the rights, inclusion and

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well- being of people with Down
syndrome around the world. This day was

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first proposed by Dr Babes Signe and
formally established. It was established by the

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istalian professor Antomarackis, being observed for
the first time in two thousand six the

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Organization of Down Syndrome International under the
organization of the Down Sndom International. The

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initiative has gained international recognition, being
adopted by the General Assembly of the United

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Nations in two thousand eleven days or
celebrates the twenty- first of March of

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each year to highlight the uniqueities of
the triplication of chromosome twenty- one characteristic

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of down syndrome. This genetic condition
affects people all over the world, with

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an incidence of births of about one
in a thousand to one hundred children,

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that is, one in a thousand
one hundred can have this, can suffer

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from this syndrome. People with Down
syndrome face unique challenges in terms of learning,

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health and development, highlighting the importance
of access to health care and early

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intervention, including education and research to
improve their quality of life. On Down

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syndrome day, events are organized globally, including UN class conferences, with awareness

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campaigns, such as many socks and
fund- raising activities for charity organizations related

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to DDS. In addition, awards
are given and individuals and organizations that have

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contributed significantly to improving the lives of
people with Down syndrome. This day is

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an opportunity to highlight the importance of
inclusion and respect and equal opportunities for all

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people. A while ago I was
reading. I had read that in Europe

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there has been a drastic fall in
the births of a child with Dawn syndrome.

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They weigh that there is a test
that is done during pregnancy that can

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determine if the baby comes with some
kind of condition. There are a lot

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like things that can be determined before, exactly before the baby nasca and the

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BBC. Last year he wrote an
article for this same date, for the

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twenty- first, talking about the
drastic reduction that has taken place in the

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births of children with Down syndrome.
There is a great debate about this issue,

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because there are countries like Germany,
where children with syndrome are no longer

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born, although parents decide better to
fear pregnancy than to continue it if it

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comes with this condition. The trend
has been studied for a long time in

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Europe and they go back to 1, 980. According to this data,

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in nineteen hundred and eighty there was
a possibility of every eight hundred per woman

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having a baby with down syndrome.
The progressive rise in maternal age in the

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four decades that followed led to these
odds rising to one per four hundred and

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sixty, given that four of the
older mothers are, the higher the chances

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that the fetus presents this genetic disorder
that can cause different degrees of intellectual disability,

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among other things, and continues to
say the work published by the BBC,

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that the technological abscesses of the last
decades allow to detect the down and

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other anomalies in the combined uterus.
The legalization of abortion in most European countries

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has led more and more women to
choose to end their pregnancy. And this

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is what BEBS says. I am
saying Alberto barga put an end to her

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pregnancy when she is detected presenting the
presence of the trisomy twenty- one,

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the formal name of the syndrome,
which is the three copies of the chromosome

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twenty- one. He says that
countries do not keep a record of how

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many abortions they perform because the fetus
is detected has down says the BCS clearly

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is embarrassed. In Germany, Angela
a Merc was confronted by an activist who

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there is an organization fighting to make
it illegal in Germany for mothers to make

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the decision to sacrifice their child because
the child appears with Dawn in the womb.

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He hears that but a sheath investigate
because even documentaries of what has happened

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in Germany are not born children anymore
Germany, Austea and those countries are not

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born children with Dawn syndrome are slaughtered
immediately, that is if one in four

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hundred pregnant women detects it. One
in four hundred who detect it decides to

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abort. And they' re not
born in Germany anymore. And there are

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a lot of studies that have been
done in Europe. The most recent one

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says that it estimates that, in
the case of Europe, globally, we

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are talking about all the countries of
Europe, fifty- four percent of pregnancies.

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What the fetus had down was sacrificed. That' s in Europe,

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complete, in Germany, Italy,
etcetera. So this figure, which is

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an average that varies strongly in countries, in some cases eight out of ten

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pregnancies occur and in others, as
in Germany, by one hundred percent.

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Yes that this data that was given
last year by the BBC, is one

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is an extensive article published on its
page, where it speaks that the ten

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countries with the highest rate of termination
of pregnancies due to Down syndrome are Iceland

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sixty- nine, Belgium seventy-
seven, Italy seventy- one, Bulgaria

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seventy- four percent, Slovenia seventy- six, Czech Republic seventy- seven

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percent, which they call interruption,
but that abortion by and simple is interrupted

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what can be restarted or continued.
Denmark seventy- nine, Portugal eighty,

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Spain eighty- three and the countries
that you have not mentioned because they do

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not reveal your statistics, because you
are ashamed. The case of Germany is

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one of those countries. Yes,
today is International Day, the consciousness is

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combarsation around Dawn' s Syndrome.
You' ll say good, but you

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have to have a child, being
more Dawn isn' t easy. Well,

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having kids, very easy, if
it doesn' t matter if they

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come with Dawn or without him.
But look at what you say there of

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the different degrees of aute de,
but of Dawn syndrome, which is the

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triplication of the syndrome from the twenty- first chromosome sheath the scientific comfort is

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still in the discussion because there is
a group that says that there is no

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degree in the sinon you have or
you don' t have, but there

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is no degree, just like you. You can' t buy, because,

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for example, there' s gi
graduated a graduate to see. You

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don' t have or don'
t have down syndrome and in that part.

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But there' s another group,
there' s another party that claims

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that that' s going to vary
according to certain to the extent that you

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go to environmental factors affect but certainly
in the United States there' s also

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been a lawyer. I' m
going to see if I can get a

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very famous American activist lawyer. I' ve put your debates in. He

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has had to go to many state
legislatures where laws have been proposed similar to

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those that exist in Germany and other
countries, where he has made some very

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interesting and very solid approaches to how
inhuman it is to make such a decision,

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based on a reasoning that they are
disposable human beings because of that simple

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fact. He is an activist lawyer
and I have mentioned him many times here,

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because his speeches are very meaningful and, just like him, there are

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a lot of people who have been
able to insert themselves into educational life,

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to train, educate themselves and lead
a fully functional productive life, because they

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have found societies that have been able
to create conditions and programs according to their

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abilities so that they leave, become
integrated. But, certainly, that'

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s the ugly part of this Sustoye
a lot of people talking and calling about

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this and honestly, I changed my
position from many conversations about abortion and it

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was one of the presentations that this
lawyer made that I promise you that before

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the program is over, I'
m going to tell you the name of

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this lawyer that I did, because
more drastically I said that this is an

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excuse for many people not to take
responsibility for having a child merit, an

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aunt who has a son who is
almost fifty years old, who was born

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with Down syndrome and my aunt has
devoted all her life to the attention of

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her son and very much the opposite
of what many people can think sometimes for

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parents, what you think is a
burden, is what makes sense of your

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existence and is what has been in
my aunt' s life, in the

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appearance of my cousin. And I
have to tell you if there' s

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anyone who hasn' t given you
any trouble from the four children that my

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aunt has, it' s that
boy, because you know that one is

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human and one commits again uri and
sheath, that is, the peace,

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tranquility and companionship that he gives you
and the complement that it is to your

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life is incredible. And I was
born the day I was born, my

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cousin, Haffy has been there all
my life and quite the opposite of many

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people who often say you, you
shouldn' t make fun of yourself,

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you shouldn' t make a joke. No. I do not have in

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my mind a moment of my life
that I have not been completely in touch

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and in the presence of my life
this person who suffers I have not always

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seen everything very normal. They used
to call him in terms of abnormal pejoratives,

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and let me tell him that if
I have had to witness, it

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is that of the cruel, that
is ignorance, of the intolerant, that

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is ignorance, because my aunt had
to face not only the fact of having

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to send forth four children alone,
one of them with down syndrome, but

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also the having to live with a
deeply hostile ignorant environment. They were going

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to my aunt' s house to
tell her things and make fun of her.

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I saw that to the point that
they made him cry. I was

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a boy of six, seven,
eight, nine of ten, and when

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my aunt moved to another place surrounded
by other kinds of people, etc,

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it was that she could have more
peace of mind, because if there is

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one thing that the ignorant is that
it is deeply cruel. So today I

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' m leaving you with a musicita. We went out in the morning.

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I' ll give it to you.