A new, safer and more accurate prenatal test for Down’s syndrome is to be introduced in the NHS. If the pattern of results follows its use in the private sector, the number of babies identified with the condition and aborted is likely to soar. Campaigners fear this is eugenics by the back door Aged 17, Alberto di Tullio experienced something most people can only dream of: he rode through the crowds in St Peter’s Square alongside Pope Francis in the Popemobile. Francis’ eye, Tullio’s father explained later, had been caught by the blue-and-white striped Argentinian football shirt Alberto was wearing. But the media’s attention flew to the more obvious angle: Alberto had Down’s syndrome. That the Pope had singled him out was further evidence of his conce