title: [The silent disappearance: report of screening eugenics of people with Down syndrome].
abstract: In this article, we try to reflext an avident fact: since the last 20 years, the percentage of births of Down Sindrome in Spain is decreasing. This fact is so silenciated in the mass media, that we can call "the silent dissapearance". But this is a bit of a more big problem more preocupated: the rejection of our society against the disabled people. For this, first, we present the facts, and then we will make a bioethical reflexión about the meaning of the rejection of disabled people, a serious fact that contradict the human responsability for others.
authors.affiliation: Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera-Valencia, Spain. jaime.vilarroig2@uch.ceu.es
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vilarroig Martín
mesh_terms: D000025:Abortion, Eugenic / Q000941:ethics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology