Word: mongoloid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instances in which the parents themselves are the source of that authority. Some situations readily lend themselves to a passive mode of murder. The most interesting case studies are those that involve children born with Down's Syndrome, popularly termed Mongolism because facial characteristics of those afflicted frequently resemble Mongoloid racial features...
...four-year-old Mongoloid boy goes to school, understands counting concepts to ten, knows his colors, and recognizes many letters of the alphabet taken at random. And he's not an outstanding case-he's simply had the advantage of good medical advice, a good school, and lots of love from family, friends and neighbors...
...reveals a flaw early enough in pregnancy, the parents then have the option of abortion. Amniocentesis is elaborate and expensive. However, it should be considered whenever there is an unusually high risk of retardation or other disability. For instance, women over 35 are four times as likely to have mongoloid children as younger mothers. If all older pregnant women were tested and would agree to abortion where warranted the incidence of mongolism could be cut in half. If genetic counseling becomes a widespread practice and related medical services become generally available, retardation resulting from other known, hereditary causes could...
...such fragmentary evidence, a picture of the Early Hunters emerges. They were immigrants; the scientific consensus is that they came from Asia via Siberia, then dispersed east and south. When they arrived is uncertain. However, it is clear that they maintained a nomadic existence. And they were probably of Mongoloid stock, not currently extinct types like the Neanderthals...
...current example illustrates the problem. Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions. Already a number of medical planners are pointing up the cost-effectiveness of abortion in those cases. Unless the birth rate of mongoloid children is reduced, their care by 1975 may well cost some $1.75 billion nationally...