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Charlotte "Charlie" Fien compared the growing genocide of babies with Down's syndrome to Nazi euthanasia programs of the 1930s.
Fien told the UN agency in Geneva: "I am not ill; I am not sick. None of my friends with Down syndrome suffer either. We are happy. "
She added, "We just have an extra chromosome. We are still human beings. We are not monsters. Do not be afraid of us ... Please do not try to make us all disappear. "
This story began the day she watched the BBC in 2016 documentary entitled "A World Without Down Syndrome? ". She was so disturbed that she wrote a speech against the preliminary screening and sent it to the House of Lords of Great Britain. The speech was sent to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and Fien was invited to speak in Geneva on the eve of World Down's Syndrome Day in 2017.
The BBC documentary analyzed the ethics and science behind the new "non-invasive prenatal screening test" (TNIP) to detect up to 98.6% of unborn babies with trisomy 21. Precision For the diagnosis of Down syndrome was only 80% for previous tests. In order to better understand the situation, pregnant women had to undergo an amniocentesis with a minor risk of miscarriage. TNIP, which consists of a single blood test, became available in 2011. The test can be performed when women have only ten weeks of pregnancy.
Since 2012, 100% of Icelandic babies with Down syndrome have been aborted. Since 2014, 98% of Danish pregnant women with Down syndrome have chosen abortion. In Great Britain, the country of origin of Fien, it is 90%.
Dr. Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994) discovered in 1959 the chromosomal origin of Down's syndrome. He hoped that this would help eliminate the stigma associated with this condition, as people believed that maternal syphilis was the cause. Lejeune discovered with horror that his research was not used to help people with Down syndrome but to kill them in the womb. He described the world's discomfort with people living with Down syndrome as "chromosomic racism". Lejeune was a fervent Catholic, an opponent of abortion and the founding president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. His cause of canonization is underway in the Catholic Church and the Church considers it a "servant of God. "