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Jüdisches Feature:
When Haredi mothers give up their Down syndrome babies
Having a child with Down syndrome comes with enormous challenges. For ultra-Orthodox Israeli women, there are at least two ways to get rid of such a 'burden’.
When Shmuel, my sixth child, arrived with Down syndrome, I cried bitterly as I imagined myself dead and him homeless; I played hostess to numerous other fantasies, my own and those of other women, who came to cry by my childbed….