House panel endorses bill to ban abortion when motivation is Down syndrome

SALT LAKE CITY — Parents of Down syndrome children urged a legislative committee with sometimes emotional testimony Thursday to pass a bill that would make it illegal for doctors to perform an abortion if they know that the woman seeking the procedure is doing so because the child would be born with Down syndrome."Sometimes we forget what effect these individuals can have in our lives," Aaron Simpson, the father of two Down syndrome girls, including one who was adopted, said they have made