{"id":175189,"date":"2017-11-23T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=175189"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:32:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:32:52","slug":"down-syndrome-speaks-against-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/down-syndrome-speaks-against-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman with Down syndrome speaks out against abortion: ‘I have a right to live’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United Nations Human Rights Committee recently met to draft its interpretation of the right to life — and yet spent much of the time affirming the “right” to abortion instead. Yadh Ben Achour, a Tunisian lawyer and member of the committee, made comments regarding Down syndrome and abortion that show he is not particularly interested in protecting human rights — at least not for individuals he deems inferior.<\/p>\n

Achour claims that he is a “defender of the handicapped” and disabled, but he also believes women should abort preborn babies who receive a prenatal diagnosis:<\/p>\n

I myself am an ardent defender of the handicapped and I understand very well that society and the State have to do everything possible to protect handicapped, help them, and ensure they have a life, a possible living. But that does not mean that we have to accept to let a disabled foetus live. This is a preventive measure. If you tell a woman “Your child has Dow… ” \u2014 what is it called? Down syndrome, dawn syndrome \u2014 if you tell her that, isn’t it, or that he may have a handicap forever, for the rest of his life, you should make this woman… it should be possible for her to resort to abortion to avoid the handicap as a preventive measure.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t mean that we are against the disabled or that we won’t help the disabled when born disabled. So this is where we will find the difference between the birth of the human being, once he is born, it is finished; with a handicap or without a handicap, he must live and we must protect absolutely, in an absolute manner, his right to life. That, it does not mean that we have to accept the handicaps when the embryo is still in his mother’s womb, it would be too serious. So us, we defend the right of the handicapped, but, but we can avoid the handicaps and we must do everything we can to avoid them. And it is not contradictory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It actually is, in fact, contradictory. You can’t argue that you’re an ardent defender of the handicapped, say that you want to protect people with disabilities and that you support people with disabilities, while also arguing that they should be killed for those same disabilities, never having the chance to be born at all.<\/p>\n