{"id":270605,"date":"2022-06-27T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=270605"},"modified":"2022-06-24T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T22:55:00","slug":"babies-disabilities-live-not-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babies-disabilities-live-not-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing babies with disabilities to live is not ‘grotesque’ or ‘cruel’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The topic of abortion is currently one of the country’s most hot-button issues, and abortion advocates are doing all they can to argue that abortion is desperately needed. The latest example comes from a Virginia newspaper, which ran an editorial complaining that preborn children with disabilities will actually get to live if abortion is not legal across the country.<\/p>\n

The Daily Progress is the only daily newspaper serving the area of Charlottesville, Virginia. Recently, they published an editorial<\/a> slamming the notion of laws protecting preborn children with disabilities from eugenic abortions. “Forcing a woman to give birth to a baby with severe abnormalities because she is poor is grotesquely Orwellian,” they wrote, adding, “Being compelled to bring a child into the world who will suffer chronically or die young because you cannot afford to pay to spare them the suffering adds nothing to society. It is cruel.”<\/p>\n

The op-ed is in response to a proposal from Governor Youngkin that would strip state funding for discriminatory, eugenic abortions. Yet the Daily Progress doesn’t see this as a matter of protecting a vulnerable class of people who already face discrimination in virtually every sphere of life; they clearly see abortion as a way to keep parents from being saddled with a child who isn’t worth the effort.<\/p>\n

“Who wants to sentence a human being to a lifetime of pain or suffering? If Youngkin\u2019s budget amendment forces a single poor woman to do that, it will be an abomination,” the paper continued. They further point to Trisomy 18, as opposed to Down syndrome, as “proof” that these eugenic abortions are needed, as many children with Trisomy 18 only live for a short time after birth, and those that have survived have intellectual disabilities. The idea is clearly to paint as negative a picture as possible.<\/p>\n

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Medical advances are giving children with Trisomy 18 the chance not only to survive, but thrive; the problem is not the condition itself, but the reticence of the medical community to actually treat those who have it<\/a>. When children with Trisomy 18 are given the treatment they need, everything changes<\/a>. But if preborn children with Trisomy 18 are aborted in such large numbers, it will make it less and less likely for more medical professionals to learn about the condition and how best to treat it.<\/p>\n