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Majority of Democrats Support Aborting Babies With Down Syndrome

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According to a poll conducted by Knights of Columbus-Marist, 58 percent of overall respondents express disagreement with aborting babies due to a Down syndrome diagnosis, while 39 percent support the practice. Notably, Republicans (75 percent) and independents (58 percent) overwhelmingly oppose such abortions, creating a stark contrast with their Democratic counterparts.

Surprisingly, within the Republican and independent camps, there is a notable fraction—24 percent of Republicans and 39 percent of independents—who believe that babies with Down syndrome should be aborted rather than being born.

The survey, conducted with 1,371 adults between January 8-9, 2024, carries a statistical significance within ±3.6 percentage points. Beyond the specific issue of Down syndrome, the poll also indicates strong support among Americans for abortion limits and pregnancy resource centers.

There’s an evident connection between Democratic support for aborting babies with Down syndrome and the historical context of the eugenics movement in Denmark. In 2004, Denmark took a pioneering step by offering prenatal Down syndrome screening to every pregnant woman, resulting in a significant decline in the number of children born with Down syndrome.

The impact of universal screening is evident in Denmark, where, according to The Atlantic’s 2020 report, more than 95 percent of expectant mothers who receive a Down syndrome diagnosis choose to abort. In 2019, only 18 children with Down syndrome were born in the entire country, a stark contrast to the approximately 6,000 born annually in the United States.

It’s crucial to recognize Down syndrome as a genetic condition where individuals are born with an extra copy of chromosome 21, affecting their brain and body development. The Cleveland Clinic emphasizes that people diagnosed with Down syndrome can lead happy and healthy lives.

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Governor Signs Law Protecting Unborn Babies With Down Syndrome From Abortion

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On Monday, Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed the “Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act (S.B. 468)” into law. The law prohibits discriminatory abortions performed because of a disability, including Down syndrome. The date of the bill signing coincided with World Down Syndrome Day, which is recognized March 21.

The bill was passed by West Virginia state lawmakers this month, as Townhall covered. The law will go into effect in June.

Majorie Dannenfelser, the president of pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, published a statement praising West Virginia for enacting a law against discriminatory abortions. (Read more from “Governor Signs Law Protecting Unborn Babies With Down Syndrome From Abortion” HERE)

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Disturbing Report: School Tied Mask on to Little Girl With Down Syndrome for Weeks

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Florida educators forced a young girl with Down syndrome to wear a mask by tying it to her head despite it putting the non-verbal child in possible danger, a furious father claims.

Sofia Steele — a 7-year-old girl from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida — allegedly stepped off the school bus on Oct. 7 with a face mask on. Jeffery Steele, the 7-year-old’s father, thought it was strange since she had never come home from school wearing a mask. Upon further inspection, the father said he found that the face mask was tied around the girl’s head with a blue nylon string and held in place with hair clips. The mask was allegedly soaked with saliva.

“I was so angry so I waited four days from Thursday 7th to Tuesday after Columbus Day because I really need to calm down,” Steel told WOFL-TV. “When this child got off the bus and had the mask it was tied around the back of her head underneath her ponytail and it was quite tight around her face.”

The father believed his daughter was exempt from Ocean Breeze Elementary School’s mask mandate because of her disability. Sofia has an enlarged tongue and breathes through her mouth, which makes wearing a face mask potentially dangerous. The father said that Sofia has an individual education plan at the school that caters to her special needs.

“Medically, she could aspirate. She could asphyxiate all sorts of medical things that could happen and because of her breathing because of her enlarged tongue could cause seizures,” Steele said. (Read more from “Disturbing: School Tied Mask on to Little Girl With Down Syndrome for Weeks” HERE)

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Statistics Reveal Horrifying Numbers of Down Syndrome Babies Killed Through Abortion

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While countries like Iceland have grossly celebrated the eradication of individuals with Down syndrome from their society (eugenics as its worst) – we are teaming up to send a new message to our country’s leaders, employers, educators, healthcare providers, future parents and most importantly, individuals with Down syndrome – life for people with Down syndrome matters.

Our life’s passion and work, in different corners of our great country, brought us together with this common moral – “pro-life for all of life.” For the two of us, a future that doesn’t include people with Down syndrome is very personal (Chloe is a self-advocate from Pennsylvania who is one of the fiercest advocates on the planet and Weir is the former President & C.E.O. of the National Down Syndrome Society and a candidate for U.S. Congress).

Today, we are calling on all Members of Congress, regardless of party, to put your differences aside and help us ensure that our society embraces diversity, embraces differing abilities and, most importantly, stands for life, from the very beginning to natural death, by supporting a new bill, the Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Prohibition Act, which places a federal ban on the performance of an abortion because an unborn child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.

There continues to be a widespread increase in the Down syndrome prenatal screening tests in the United States (and across the world) which is leading to a decrease in the number of babies with Down syndrome. And while these screening tests (called noninvasive prenatal screening tests (NIPT)) are intended to only screen for Down syndrome (not diagnose), the pressure to not seek further testing, and terminate a pregnancy is real. For instance, the most recent stats available to the public estimate that 67% of babies with Down syndrome are terminated in the Unites States, 77% in France, 98% in Denmark and 100% in Iceland. (Read more from “Statistics Reveal Horrifying Numbers of Down Syndrome Babies Killed Through Abortion” HERE)

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Pennsylvania Legislators Passed a Bill to Protect Unborn Babies with down Syndrome. Their Dem Governor Vetoed It

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, vetoed legislation that sought to protect unborn children with Down syndrome from being aborted based on their medical diagnosis.

House Bill 321, or the Down Syndrome Protection Act, would have prohibited abortions based solely on the diagnosis of Down syndrome — a chromosomal disorder that causes physical and intellectual disabilities. It passed the out of the state’s House of Representatives back in March and cleared the Senate on Wednesday.

In a statement accompanying his veto, Wolf said that there was “no evidence that this bill is needed in Pennsylvania” and cited “significant concerns that enforcement of this legislation would upend the doctor-patient relationship and impede on patient confidentiality.”

“This legislation is a restriction on women and medical professionals and interferes with women’s health care and the crucial decision-making between patients and their physicians,” Wolf said.

Proponents of the legislation, however, said that Wolf’s veto shows him siding against children with Down syndrome and with eugenics through abortion.

“Shame on Governor Wolf for blocking this compassionate, popular bill. He has signed a death sentence for countless unborn babies targeted for abortion merely because they may have Down syndrome,” said Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser in a press release. “The Pennsylvania legislature’s bold action is part of growing nationwide momentum to put an end to lethal discrimination – but Governor Wolf is an abortion extremist who consistently obstructs the will of Pennsylvanians.”

“Governor Tom Wolf believes it’s just fine to kill babies in the womb solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of a disability,” said Michael Greer, president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute. “That is eugenics. That’s wrong.”

In a blog post, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation education director Bonnie Finnerty took issue with the governor’s explanation for issuing the veto, writing, “This is not about health care. This is about judging someone’s life as not worth living.”

“This is about exterminating a group of people because they are different and perceived by some to be a burden,” Finnerty continues. “This is not health care. It’s elitism.”

Meanwhile, the constitutionality of state laws barring abortions based on disabilities is currently working its way through the federal courts. Ohio passed an abortion bill to protect children with Down syndrome in 2017, but it was recently struck down by a ruling from the Sixth Circuit.

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case of an Indiana law that bars discriminatory abortions based on sex, race, or disability. The law was blocked by the Seventh Circuit. In an opinion concurring with the court’s denial, Justice Clarence Thomas noted that while the court may have decided to allow the issue to further ripen in the lower courts, it would eventually have to weigh in on the issue, warning, “Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child … would constitutionalize the views of the 20th-century eugenics movement.” (For more from the author of “Pennsylvania Legislators Passed a Bill to Protect Unborn Babies with down Syndrome. Their Dem Governor Vetoed It” please click HERE)

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DISGUSTING: Woman Wins Quarter Million Dollars Because She Didn’t Get to Abort Her Baby With Down Syndrome

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A mother, who said that she would have aborted her baby if she knew that he had Downs syndrome, has been awarded financial compensation from the NHS, which could amount to £200,000.

Edyta Mordel, aged 33, pursued legal action against the NHS for ‘wrongful birth’ after medical staff allegedly failed to test her unborn baby for Down’s syndrome, and so deprived her of the opportunity to end his life through abortion.

Mordel’s medical notes say she was “very upset and angry” when her son, Aleksander, was diagnosed after his birth in 2015. However, the hospital’s ultrasound reports system recorded “Down’s screening declined”, showing that Mordel had been offered a screening process, and had refused it.

Mr Justice Jay, who presided over the ‘wrongful birth’ case, has now ruled that Mordel is entitled to a damages pay-out from the NHS trust. Mordel’s lawyers have asserted that she should receive a pay-out sum larger than £200,000. . . .

Currently, in the UK, 90% of babies diagnosed with Down’s syndrome are aborted. The UK’s 1967 Abortion Act also permits abortion until birth, if the unborn baby is suspected to possess to foetal anomaly such as Down’s syndrome. (Read more from “Woman Wins Quarter Million Dollars Because She Didn’t Get to Abort Her Baby With Down Syndrome” HERE)

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State House Passes Bill to Ban Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome

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Following the advancement of multiple pro-life proposals, the Kentucky House voted this week to pass legislation that would ban abortions driven by discrimination against certain characteristics of the preborn child.

Introduced by Republican state Rep. Melinda Gibbons Prunty, House Bill 5 would ban any abortion sought on the basis of the baby’s race, sex, color, national origin, or disability. Abortionists would be required to certify they were unaware of any such motive before aborting. Violators would be guilty of a Class D felony (punishable by 1-5 years in prison), see their medical licenses revoked or suspended, and be potentially liable for civil damages. . .

“There are 15 clauses that protect the sanctity of life and civil rights,” Prunty argued during a lengthy floor debate. “This bill would extend those exact same rights to the unborn, from the moment of conception. Demanding the right to extinguish or eliminate the life of an unborn child, specifically because of their gender, race or possible physical or mental disability, is reminiscent of the evil social philosophy of eugenics.”

“Once again, this legislative body is inserting itself into the physician’s office,” Democrat state Rep. Mary Lou Marzian shot back. “This legislation has also been passed in several states and found unconstitutional. So, I guess I should be thrilled for my ACLU friends, who will be the recipient of over $100,000, I’m sure, of taxpayer dollars.” (Read more from “State House Passes Bill to Ban Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome” HERE)

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Nineteen States Ask the Supreme Court to Uphold Down Syndrome Abortion Ban

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A coalition of 19 state attorneys general filed a friend of the court brief late last week asking the Supreme Court to review and uphold a 2016 Indiana law which bans abortions that are chosen solely due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The law also bars other discriminatory abortions chosen solely because of other disabilities, biological sex, or race.

Last month, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill asked the Supreme Court to review the law after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the measure, finding it to be “unconstitutional.”

The coalition, led by Wisconsin’s attorney general, argued in the brief that the measure “furthers the State’s compelling interest in prohibiting the discriminatory elimination of classes of human beings by race, gender, or disability.”

“The Seventh Circuit invalidated this law by purporting to find within this Court’s case law a ‘categorical’ right to pre-viability abortion,” the brief noted, “a right that a State cannot infringe no matter how powerful its interest…That conclusion is legally wrong and would perversely place the unenumerated right to pre-viability abortion above even core protections of the Bill of Rights.”

They pointed out that if laws to prohibit discrimination against the Down syndrome community in other areas are under the authority of the state then preventing abortion practices that could eliminate the community should also be within the state’s authority. (Read more from “Nineteen States Ask the Supreme Court to Uphold Down Syndrome Abortion Ban” HERE)

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Down Syndrome Community Asks to Be Put on ‘Endangered Species’ List

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In Iceland, people with Down Syndrome have been virtually wiped out by abortion. In Denmark, people with Down syndrome also face extinction. In the United Kingdom, 90% of parents who discover that their pre-born child has Down syndrome opt to have the baby aborted. In the US, 75% of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. In Canada, it is also close to 90%.

All of this is despite the fact that the vast majority of people with Down syndrome report having an extremely high quality of life, exposing the empty and evil excuses of some abortive parents that abortion is “best for the baby” as the transparent lie that it is. Life expectancy has also gone up steadily: Now, people with Down syndrome generally live to about sixty years old, with some living into their seventies. Their life expectancy post-birth has skyrocketed just as their life expectancy pre-birth plummets.

That is precisely why the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is attempting to draw attention to the plight of people with Down syndrome via a daring new campaign, “Endangered syndrome”: They have launched a petition calling for those with Down syndrome to be placed on the “endangered” list, noting that that by the standards of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Down syndrome community qualifies.

The dwindling Down syndrome community has resulted in dwindling funds for essential community services, the CDSS noted through a video highlighting people dressed as endangered animals while explaining their plight. Animal welfare groups, the CDSS observed, get 90% more funding than Down syndrome charities across North America, a fact that helped drive their controversial comparison—the video has already been viewed more than a million times. (Read more from “Down Syndrome Community Asks to Be Put on ‘Endangered Species’ List” HERE)

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HORRIBLE: WaPo Columnist Defends Aborting Down Syndrome Babies

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In a staggeringly horrifying column for The Washington Post, abortion advocate Ruth Marcus argues that women should have the right to abort a baby with Down syndrome, to eliminate, through bald eugenics, “undesirable” humans from the gene pool, for their own good.

Marcus is being heralded as “brave” and “thought-provoking” for her approach, which argues that both families — and those with Down syndrome — would be better off if the condition was simply eradicated through selective termination, because individuals with Down syndrome are generally less intelligent, and often represent a lifelong care commitment.

There’s no point in just quoting you the highlights.

But accepting that essential truth is different from compelling a woman to give birth to a child whose intellectual capacity will be impaired, whose life choices will be limited, whose health may be compromised. Most children with Down syndrome have mild to moderate cognitive impairment, meaning an IQ between 55 and 70 (mild) or between 35 and 55 (moderate). This means limited capacity for independent living and financial security; Down syndrome is life-altering for the entire family.

Nazi Germany began a crusade to eliminate the similarly undesirable: a “palliative” eugenics campaign that targeted the mentally ill, the intellectually underdeveloped, the physically incapable, and the terminally ill. But the definitions quickly expanded on their program, as those who ran — and championed — such an effort determined there were more socially undesirable people than just those suffering from “moderate cognitive impairment.” (Read more from “HORRIBLE: WaPo Columnist Defends Aborting Down Syndrome Babies” HERE)

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