{"id":208485,"date":"2019-08-13T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208485"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T18:15:23","slug":"lila-rose-hill-aborting-disabilities-corrupts-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lila-rose-hill-aborting-disabilities-corrupts-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Lila Rose at The Hill: Aborting children for disabilities ‘corrupts the fundamental principle of equality’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, The Hill<\/a>\u00a0published an op-ed written by Live Action founder and president Lila Rose and former National Council on Disability member Dr. Daniel Gade regarding the discriminatory nature of abortions committed on children in the womb with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Rose and Gade point out that while we are now able to see and diagnose inside the womb, and even perform prenatal surgery to heal children in the womb, prenatal testing has unfortunately also led to the killing of children who are diagnosed with conditions prenatally. They write:<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these diagnostic, life-saving advances are not always matched by caring and informed advice. Sometimes doctors and society recommend that babies with disabilities pay the ultimate price of abortion for their conditions. On\u00a0March 9th, 2018 the deputy editorial page editor of the\u00a0Washington\u00a0Post, Ruth Marcus, wrote an article entitled,\u00a0\u201cI would\u2019ve aborted a fetus with Down syndrome. Women need that right.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Women like\u00a0Courtney Baker<\/a>,\u00a0Natalie Halson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Stacy Connor<\/a>\u00a0were all advised to abort based on a prenatal diagnosis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Because of this societal bias, from 1998 to 2011, data shows that 67 percent of women who\u00a0receive a positive prenatal diagnosis for Down syndrome had an abortion. This is despite the fact that people with this condition\u00a0routinely\u00a0live happy, fulfilled lives.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Our nation\u2019s laws protecting people against discrimination based on their disability are robust in areas like housing and employment, but woefully inadequate in the womb. Any right-minded person would be horrified if toddlers with newly acquired disabilities were killed because of their differences, or if war-wounded veterans were euthanized instead of honored and cared for.<\/em><\/p>\n

Still, society shrugs when babies with disabilities are aborted simply because of their physical location inside their mother\u2019s body and pro-abortion rights activists continue to\u00a0work against laws that would protect babies with disabilities from being targeted in utero.<\/em><\/p>\n