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In the Norwegian public discourse on abortion and biotechnology, there is a term "sorteringssamfunnet", the exclusion society, a horror vision of the future where all undesirables are eliminated.

Some people say that our society is already an exclusion society. In Norway, it's legal to have an abortion after the first trimester if the fetus is disfigured.

"Disfigured" includes several syndromes, including Down's syndrome, and this is highly controversial and currently up for debate again.