{"id":179982,"date":"2018-03-05T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=179982"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:28:54","slug":"utah-ban-down-syndrome-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/utah-ban-down-syndrome-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news: Utah House passes bill banning Down syndrome abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Utah has just taken a step toward outlawing abortion<\/a>\u00a0because of a Down syndrome diagnosis. House Bill 205, the Down Syndrome Nondiscrimination Abortion Act,\u00a0<\/b>passed in the House last week. It will now move to the Utah Senate.<\/p>\n

The bill specifies<\/a> that it would “require[] a physician to provide certain information to a pregnant woman when a\u00a0prenatal screening or diagnostic test indicates that the pregnant woman’s unborn\u00a0child has or may have Down syndrome” and would “prohibit[] a person from performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an\u00a0abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion\u00a0solely<\/u><\/b>\u00a0because an unborn child\u00a0has, or may have, Down syndrome.” The bill would also require pathology report information regarding any possible Down syndrome diagnosis and would require affirmation by an abortionist that he or she “did not\u00a0have knowledge that the pregnant woman sought the abortion solely<\/u><\/b>\u00a0because the unborn\u00a0child had or may have had Down syndrome.”<\/p>\n

READ: Patricia Heaton blasts Iceland for aborting every single baby with Down syndrome<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Further, the bill defines both what abortion is and is not. While abortion advocates may tend to hyperbolize certain pro-life measures<\/a> by claiming that the measures would ban things that they would not, this bill specifically states that “abortion” does not mean<\/em> the “removal of a dead unborn child” or the “removal of an ectopic pregnancy.” In other words, this bill would certainly not make those things illegal.<\/p>\n

Down syndrome is most often diagnosed midway through pregnancy, sometime around 20 weeks gestation. At this point in pregnancy, a commonly used abortion procedure is the D&E, or dilation and evacuation, in which a living preborn child is brutally dismembered in the womb and is then removed piece by piece. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains in the video below:<\/p>\n