Colleen Carroll Campbell: A dangerous perfectionism

Read this eloquent column in the St Louis Dispatch by EWTN series host Colleen Carroll Campbell on the new pre-natal screening tests for Down syndrome.

She says, Count Eileen Haupt and Leticia Velasquez, two mothers of daughters with Down syndrome, among the latter. The pair recently founded an organization known as Keep Infants with Down Syndrome, or KIDS. Their goal: to encourage expectant parents of Down-diagnosed babies by spreading the word about research advances and the joy these special-needs children can bring.The potential audience for their message is vast. Today, many women are bearing children later in life and thus facing higher odds of a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. (A 20-year-old woman has a one-in-2,000 chance of conceiving a baby with Down syndrome; for a 40-year-old woman, that chance is one in 100.)

  Colleen Carroll Campbell: A dangerous perfectionism