Speakers with Down syndrome give powerful UN testimony: We ‘don’t need to be eradicated’

Mar 29, 2018 by Jill

by Calvin Freiburger, LifeSite:

Last week, two prominent human rights speakers with Down syndrome called on the United Nations to take action against the mass extermination of people like them.

The Jerome Lejeune Foundation, an international organization dedicated to Down syndrome research, care, and advocacy, co-organized the March 15 event with Poland, the Philippines, Argentina, Panama, Lithuania, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to take place at the 37th session of the UN’s Human Rights Council, as well as coincide with World Down Syndrome Day on March 21.

It featured the testimony of John Franklin Stephens and Charlotte Fien, who both used the opportunity to detail the full lives of people with Down syndrome endangered by the rise of eugenics in several countries around the world.

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