Down syndrome isn't a tragedy, but misinformation about it is

MedicalXpress | июн 21, 2026

For more than a century, people with Down syndrome have been defined by what medicine says they cannot do. That framing has consequences. It shapes the information families receive during prenatal screening, the choices they feel they have and the assumptions that go unexamined. Often, it has resulted in institutionalization and societal ostracism.