> If it's performed as an abortion would that still be considered genocide?
People with Down's aren't a national, ethincal, racial, nor religious group so strictly speaking it doesn't count as genocide under international law. But it would meet less formal definitions.
Luckily individual women making a choice to have an abortion cannot be carrying out a campaign of genocide. But when a society pushes women in this direction by failing to provide support or by failing to provide accurate information that society is probably engaging in genocidal actions.
> Article 2 of the convention defines genocide as
> any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
[...]
> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
People with Down's aren't a national, ethincal, racial, nor religious group so strictly speaking it doesn't count as genocide under international law. But it would meet less formal definitions.
Luckily individual women making a choice to have an abortion cannot be carrying out a campaign of genocide. But when a society pushes women in this direction by failing to provide support or by failing to provide accurate information that society is probably engaging in genocidal actions.
> Article 2 of the convention defines genocide as
> any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
[...]
> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;