Some experts estimate a staggering 92 percent termination rate in down syndrome pregnancies. Apparently, we place greater importance on diversity in plant and animal life than diversity in human life. Instead of protecting variations in the human population we sanction the elimination of variance. How is this loss effecting us?
Here’s a brief related excerpt from Dialogues in Diversity by John Grande that points us in a more inclusive direction. This snippet is from his interview with Patrick Huse.
Huse: “Out of diversity one discovers new possibilities. “
Grande, ” A great problem now is that as diversity is reduced in a global culture, we are not challenged by variation, by readability of specifics of culture, by memory of place, by questions of identification with place. As a result we are missing something.”
