Alberta health system accused of pressuring women to abort babies with Down syndrome

The Wilberforce Project has revealed that Alberta’s healthcare system uses invasive prenatal testing and biased counseling to pressure women to abort babies diagnosed with Down syndrome


-- LifeSiteNews, --August 6, 2025

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A new report has exposed how Alberta’s healthcare system pressures women to abort babies with Down syndrome.

According to a report by the Wilberforce Project, a pro-life organization, Alberta women are routinely encouraged to undergo screening for Down syndrome, only to be pressured by the medical community to abort their children.

“The underlying communication to mothers is that bringing babies with disabilities into the world is wrong,” the report stated. “‘Options’ has clearly become a euphemism for abortion.” ---More...

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