The widespread abortion of Down's syndrome babies is a success for "nudgenics"

The developed world is experiencing “nudgenics”: eugenics via nudge (and beyond that, overt pressure from doctors and other individuals). But victims are victims regardless of whether the act was a product of coercion, persuasion, or merely “choice architecture,” as Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler call it in “Nudge.”

The problem with testing for Down Syndrome isn’t the fact that you know your child has Trisomy 21 before birth. Testing is amoral. The problem with testing has always been in the presentation and exploitation by governments and individuals alike to eliminate those deemed “unfit for life” before the point at which it becomes legal murder for one to do so. In Iceland, abortion is legal up to 16 weeks, except in the case of an abnormal fetus. You can repeat that testing is totally optional and abortion is totally optional all you want.