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To as late as the 1990s down syndrome was thought as a shameful disgrace to humanity
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The Commonwealth of Virginia passes a state law that allows for sterilization (without consent) of individuals with down syndrome -
People with Down syndrome and other intellectual and developmental disabilities were a target in the eugenics movement in the United States, which actually influenced Hitler’s first mass murders under the Aktion T4 program in 1939
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The Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act is introduced in Congress -
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was passed. Prohibiting discrimination in federal programs and services and all other programs or services receiving federal funds -
requires free, appropriate public education in the least restrictive setting.
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doctors in the late 1980s who categorized feeding a baby with Down syndrome as a “lifesaving procedure” and proceeded to starve babies to death with Down syndrome
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people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities were systematically physically and sexually abused through forced sterilization -
Doctors refused to give life saving procedures to babies with down syndrome
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The Commonwealth of Virginia House of Delegates officially expresses regret for the harm its eugenics laws caused between 1924 and 1979.