It's hard to imagine that a hospital drama with such high standards of dramatic and technical excellence as All Saints could ever stuff up their material, but it looks as though just that has happened: the "popular" Channel Seven medical drama has managed to offend just about everyone by essentially taking genetics and obstetric medicine into their own hands and inventing some new material!

To wit, that babies with Down Syndrome are pretty much all the result of incestuous relationships.

Awesome, All Saints, ten thumbs up!

In the "highly offensive" episode, which aired on May 27, a brother and sister who were having an incestuous relationship were told their unborn child was likely to have Down syndrome as a consequence.

"All Saints has stigmatised every person with Down syndrome and their families," said Dr Peter Sloan of Down Syndrome Australia.

"We already know of one instance where a child has been victimised because of this episode."

Producers of All Saints deny any wrongdoing.

But leading geneticist Dr David Amor at Murdoch Children's Research Institute said: "There is absolutely no increase in the risk of Down syndrome for the offspring of incestuous relationships."

Exactly, team All Saints, did the captivating story of John and Jenny Deaves teach you nothing?

It's not the children of incestuous relationships who are the problem, it's the parents!

I look forward to more advances in All Saints' medical research wing, such as babies being born through the belly button, and the red thing being connected to my wrist-watch. Uh oh!

 

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