{"id":198805,"date":"2019-03-21T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=198805"},"modified":"2019-03-20T23:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T04:58:57","slug":"babies-diagnosed-womb-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babies-diagnosed-womb-valuable\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies diagnosed with illness in the womb are as valuable as the rest of us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(The Daily Signal<\/a>)\u00a0The Cut recently ran a piece<\/a> by Jen Gann, an outspoken, pro-choice mother who details her journey through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and genetic testing as she aims to conceive a healthy child.\u00a0Her first pregnancy resulted in a son with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening disease, and what she considers a missed opportunity to abort him.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Gann filed a wrongful [birth] lawsuit against her doctors for inadequate genetic testing that she claims would have likely determined her son had cystic fibrosis and would have then provided her the option to abort him.<\/p>\n

I responded to her lawsuit<\/a> two years ago, because this story is very personal to me. Not only because I believe life is the most valuable gift generously bestowed upon mankind, but because I also have a child living with cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n

It pained me, again, to see Gann reiterate in print her desire to end her sick child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Sadly, we see this far too often. The left pushes a false narrative when it comes to human dignity. Masked in the so-called desire to prevent a sick child from suffering, pro-choice activists actually devalue the sickest among us. Their drive to abort unhealthy babies sends the message that those who live with a medical condition are somehow less than or an unwanted burden.<\/p>\n

All human beings, regardless of disease, illness, ailments, and deformities, have the right to life.\u00a0They too are fearfully and wonderfully made. Their value is in no way decreased because of their disease or any subsequent pain and suffering that disease brings.<\/p>\n

Inaccurately, Gann\u2019s piece focuses heavily on women\u2019s empowerment and the amount of influence a woman holds in her ability to make a choice to end or continue a pregnancy.<\/p>\n

The reality is that women don\u2019t give life\u2014God does. Yes, we have the biological ability to carry a child in the womb, provide it the nutrients needed to grow and the environment to thrive, as well as give birth.\u00a0But we do not form a child in the womb, knit together its genetic makeup, or will it to live.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, despite the feminist movement\u2019s desire to vilify men, male DNA is also needed to produce a child. The fact that women carry a child does not make way for absolute female control.<\/p>\n

I fully agree that women should be empowered, just like all humans should be encouraged and free to reach their upmost potential. But ending the life of another human is not empowerment\u2014it is the highest form of oppression.<\/p>\n