‘The Last Downer’ Fr. Mark Hodges
Down-afflicted Sjoerd from ‘The Last Downer.’
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, December 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A pro-life leader is calling out a Dutch research organization for putting a price tag on the lives of people with Down syndrome.
African pro-life leader Obianuju Ekeocha occasioned upon a clip of a Dutch video in which a man with the chromosomal abnormality of Down Syndrome is told exactly how much his life is a financial burden that is draining health care dollars.
The video clip was part of a TV series named “The Last Downer” which aired in March last year. The series appears to have been produced by a Christian group who wanted to provoke a debate about the value of people with Down Syndrome. In one episode, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), a research institute whose findings help form government policy, was asked to calculate the cost of such people to society. The clip highlights the researcher showing his calculations.
In the video clip, a narrator begins, “The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (DNIPHE) has…calculated what the costs are
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