{"id":180755,"date":"2018-03-22T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180755"},"modified":"2018-03-21T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T03:03:07","slug":"mcmorris-rodgers-down-syndrome-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mcmorris-rodgers-down-syndrome-valuable\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers: People with Down syndrome are valuable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is not just a Congresswoman — she’s a mother to Cole, a little boy who has Down syndrome. So when she read Ruth Marcus’s column<\/a> in the Washington Post stating how women should have the right to abort<\/a> their children with Down syndrome, she found the remarks reprehensible.\u00a0Marcus wrote, in part:<\/p>\n

I can say without hesitation that, tragic as it would have felt and ghastly as a second-trimester abortion would have been, I would have terminated those pregnancies had the testing come back positive [for Down syndrome]. I would have grieved the loss and moved on….<\/p>\n

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….\u00a0Down syndrome is life-altering for the entire family….<\/p>\n

You can call me selfish, or worse, but I am in good company. The evidence is clear that most women confronted with the same unhappy alternative would make the same decision.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McMorris Rodgers replied, bluntly, in a Facebook video<\/a> posted by The Daily Signal, that Marcus is “so wrong. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”<\/p>\n