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Wed 10 Oct 2009Irish terminations about 50% as syndrome 'more accepted'
UP TO 50 per cent of pregnant women attending a Dublin maternity hospital are choosing termination when they find out they are carrying a child with Down syndrome, according to a leading obstetrician.
Fergal Malone, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Rotunda Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, confirmed the trend yesterday when commenting on the findings of a UK study which revealed that more than 90 per cent of women in England and Wales who found out during screening they were carrying babies with Down syndrome had an abortion.
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