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It was a magic moment: the entire Oscars audience singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to actor James Martin, who has Down Syndrome, and who is star of ‘An Irish Goodbye’ which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Despite the rain and snow, the Belfast Rally for Life was lit up by a series of passionate speakers on Saturday – and Down Syndrome rights activist Conor O’Dowd was indisputably the star of the show.
Independent Senator Rónán Mullen has highlighted the increase in abortions for Down Syndrome in Ireland, telling the Senate that “something has happened” in our country since the 2018 abortion referendum.
A film shot in Antrim and featuring acclaimed Belfast actor, James Martin, who has Down syndrome, is now on a shortlist for an Oscar nomination.
Conor O’Dowd, a young man with Down syndrome, has delivered a letter to the Rotunda maternity hospital urging them to ‘save babies’ after the master, Dr Fergal Malone, said 95% of babies with the condition were now aborted – almost double the 50% aborted figure he previously gave in 2018.
UK disability rights activist Heidi Crowter has been named in the BBC’s ‘Top 100 Women of the Year’ for 2022. Ms Crowter, who has Down’s Syndrome, came to prominence for bringing legal action against the British Department of Health and Social Care with the aim of removing a section of the Abortion Act.
Parents of children with Down syndrome have said that the Rotunda needs to examine the message it is giving parents after the master of the maternity hospital, Dr Fergal Malone, said that 95% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the hospital were aborted.
There has been a 90% fall in the number of legal abortions recorded in Poland following a landmark legal ruling last year which outlawed abortion for disability.
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