{"id":178786,"date":"2018-02-08T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178786"},"modified":"2018-02-19T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T06:02:08","slug":"genocide-down-syndrome-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/genocide-down-syndrome-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide against babies with Down syndrome spreads to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Currently, Ireland is one of the most pro-life countries in the world — but there are plenty who are pushing for abortion<\/a> to be legalized in the country. For a woman seeking to get an abortion, the closest location is to travel to the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, abortion is not legal after 24 weeks of pregnancy… unless the child has a disability, no matter how minor. Disturbingly, the UK Department of Health recently revealed that\u00a083 Irish women sought late-term abortions in the UK<\/a> in 2015 and 2016, solely because their babies had Down syndrome. Six more aborted because their babies had spina bifida, and one due to cystic fibrosis. The international genocide against preborn children with Down syndrome — and other disabilities — sadly continues.<\/p>\n

The numbers were released after Irish Health Minister Simon Harris said it was offensive to suggest that women were traveling to the United Kingdom from Ireland to abort babies with Down syndrome and other disabilities. Pro-lifers in Ireland have expressed their fears that if abortion is legalized in Ireland, preborn babies with disabilities will be targeted for death. This is a battle disability advocates are already fighting in the United Kingdom<\/a>, and the same will almost certainly happen in Ireland is abortion is legalized.<\/p>\n

But this genocide currently isn’t limited to the United Kingdom. Iceland is well on the road to eradicating Down syndrome<\/a>, as is Denmark<\/a>. A geneticist from Iceland said, “My understanding is that we have basically eradicated, almost, Down syndrome from our society \u2014 that there is hardly ever a child with Down syndrome in Iceland anymore.” In Australia, prenatal tests are positively featured as a way to “effectively end Down syndrome<\/a>.”\u00a0In the Netherlands, women are told they have a “moral duty” to abort<\/a> after receiving a prenatal diagnosis. Women are frequently pressured to have abortions<\/a> after receiving a prenatal diagnosis.<\/p>\n

For these 90 Irish women, the decision to have an abortion was especially tragic. The Herald notes<\/a> that these abortions “were carried out after 24 weeks of pregnancy.” These viable preborn babies lost their lives in a horrific way, as outlined by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levatino:<\/p>\n