{"id":195733,"date":"2019-02-03T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195733"},"modified":"2019-02-03T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T02:19:32","slug":"ashton-kutcher-pro-life-backtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ashton-kutcher-pro-life-backtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Ashton Kutcher shares pro-life video… then quickly backtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor Ashton Kutcher shared a video last week on Facebook of Special Olympian, actor, and Down syndrome self advocate Frank Stephens addressing Congress. In the video, Stephens testified about the high abortion<\/a> rate of preborn babies with Down syndrome. He began his speech by saying, “I am a man with Down Syndrome and my life is worth living,” and discussed how babies are screened for Down syndrome just so they can be aborted. “It’s hard for me to sit here and say those words,” he continued. “I completely understand that the people pushing this particular ‘final solution’ are saying that people like me should not exist. That view is deeply prejudice by an outdated idea of life with Down Syndrome. Seriously, I have a great life!” Stephens pleaded for an increase in funding for research into Down syndrome, instead of focusing on eugenic abortion.<\/p>\n

When Kutcher shared the video, he captioned it with a simple statement: that every life is valuable. Unfortunately, when the video received more attention than he anticipated, he felt the need to clarify that he isn’t exactly pro-life….<\/p>\n