{"id":252495,"date":"2021-09-03T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252495"},"modified":"2021-09-03T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:14:30","slug":"newsweek-texas-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/newsweek-texas-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek reporter slammed for warning pro-life laws may result in survival of more ‘Down syndrome fetuses’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the Supreme Court\u00a0allowed<\/a>\u00a0the Texas Heartbeat Act to stand after abortion advocates filed an emergency appeal to try to block it. Under the Texas Heartbeat Act, abortion is restricted after a heartbeat can be detected (at about six weeks gestation), and private citizens can sue abortionists and others aiding and abetting an abortion, except for the child’s mother. The ruling has caused panic among abortion advocates, including one Newsweek reporter who lamented the possibility of more children with Down syndrome being born.<\/p>\n

Richard Hanania, in addition to writing for Newsweek, is the president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and a research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. In reaction to the limiting of abortion in Texas, Hanania warned about the possibility of an increase in births of people with Down syndrome and other disabilities \u2014 because they will no longer be aborted, thanks to laws like the Texas Heartbeat Act.<\/p>\n

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You can\u2019t screen for Down syndrome before about 10 weeks, and something like 80% of Down syndrome fetuses are aborted. If red states ban abortion, we could see a world where they have five times as many children with Down syndrome, and similar numbers for other disabilities.<\/p>\n

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) September 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n