{"id":184203,"date":"2018-06-17T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=184203"},"modified":"2018-06-18T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:25:52","slug":"pope-francis-abortion-disabilities-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pope-francis-abortion-disabilities-nazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis condemns abortion on babies with disabilities: ‘We do the same as the Nazis’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For preborn children with disabilities, a prenatal diagnosis is often a death sentence, with parents choosing abortion<\/a> simply because their child is different. Pro-lifers and disability rights advocates speak out against the practice, but their voices are often drowned out by those who insist that no parent should be forced to raise a child with a disability if they don’t want to. All that matters is what the parent wants, and a child’s life can be stripped away from them, solely due to disability. This is eugenics, plain and simple, but that reality is not something people often want to hear. And yet, the truth must be spoken boldly.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis was giving a prepared speech for the Forum of Family Associations in Vatican City when he brought up the topic of abortion due to disability. \u201cIt is fashionable, or at least usual, that when in the first few months of a pregnancy doctors do studies to see if the child is healthy or has something, the first idea is: \u2018Let\u2019s send it away,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe do the same as the Nazis to maintain the purity of the race, but with white gloves on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Smoke rising from Nazi concentration camps<\/p><\/div>\n

The pope’s condemnation of abortion due to disability comes at a time when preborn children with disabilities are under attack more than ever. Iceland, controversially, has practically eradicated Down syndrome<\/a>, with virtually every single baby receiving a diagnosis becoming a victim of abortion. Denmark has what is called an “unofficial” government policy to eradicate Down syndrome through abortion<\/a> by the year 2030. In Australia, prenatal tests were marketed as a way to “effectively end Down syndrome.”<\/a>\u00a0In the United Kingdom, abortion is illegal after 24 weeks of pregnancy — unless the preborn baby has a disability<\/a>, even one as minor as a cleft lip. And then the baby can become a victim of abortion, even in the third trimester. In the Netherlands, women are told they have a “moral duty” to have an abortion<\/a> if their preborn child has Down syndrome. And it’s not much better in the United States; if a woman gets a prenatal diagnosis of a disability, she is often pressured to abort<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n