"Trisomy 21 test must be cash flow!", Demanded the FDP on Twitter. The post also contained the image of a woman holding a child who appears to have Trisomy 21. Critics accuse the party now to have represented people with Down syndrome as avoidable.

"I can not believe that this FDP post should be real!" Wrote, for example, Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU). The image with the child suggests that in a trisomy 21 test, it might not be in the world.

The FDP has meanwhile deleted the post and asks for an apology. "We have removed the posting, for us the perspective of a child with Trisomy 21 is nothing negative, but this ambiguous impression could obviously win - hence the deletion and apology!" Wrote the FDP under Klöckner's post.

I can not believe that this FDP post should be real! To illustrate with this child in a trisomy 21 test, it might not be in the world, if the test would be cash flow ... Therefore, the FDP for the "non-discriminatory" cash benefit https://t.co/YMKijP8ioJ

- Julia Klöckner (@JuliaKloeckner) April 1, 2019

Next week, the Bundestag will discuss whether a blood test to detect trisomies for high-risk pregnant women should become a cash benefit. The Federal Joint Committee of Physicians, Health Insurance Funds and Clinics, the highest decision-making body in the healthcare sector, had previously initiated a similar procedure.

So far, high-risk pregnant women have to pay the at least 130 euro expensive blood test themselves. About 40 percent of expectant mothers in Germany are currently considered to be at risk. For example, because they are older than 35 years or have high blood pressure.

Parents are under justification pressure

For the tests, the pregnant women from the 11th Week blood is taken. The child's chromosomal parts, which are predominantly placenta-derived, can be used to calculate the likelihood that the child will be born with trisomy 13, 18, or 21. The accuracy is according to the manufacturer at 99 percent.

Critics fear that the number of abortions could rise if the blood tests become free for the pregnant women. It is estimated that nine out of ten women choose to have an abortion if they learn that their child is very likely to have Down's Syndrome.

Through testing, people with Down syndrome in society could be considered "preventable," several organizations criticize. Parents of children with disabilities became more and more under justification pressure.