I Am a Man with Down Syndrome and My Life Is Worth Living

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Frank Stephens

Frank Stephens

by CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
The Atlantic

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Last week, the actor, Special Olympian, and advocate Frank Stephens gave this testimony to Congress: “I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living.”

In fact, he went farther: “I have a great life!”

For those conceived with his developmental disability, it is the best and worst of times. “The life expectancy for someone born with Down syndrome has increased from twenty-five in the early 1980s to more than fifty today,” Caitrin Keiper writes in The New Atlantis. …read more

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