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Til that a pregnant 20 year old women has a 1 in 2000 chance of her baby having Down syndrome, a 45 year old woman 1 in 30, a 49 year old 1 in 10.

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awBnJ TIL Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the military for the Vietnam war for which he was arrested and stripped of his boxing titles. “You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs—and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home?“
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