{"id":285025,"date":"2023-02-10T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285025"},"modified":"2023-02-13T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:20:44","slug":"woman-aborted-disability-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-aborted-disability-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida rep incorrectly claims woman who aborted baby with disability was ‘at risk’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At Tuesday’s State of the Union address, numerous people were invited as guests due to their alleged inability to obtain purported “medically necessary” abortions. In reality, induced abortion (which intentionally kills a preborn human being) is not medically necessary \u2014 and one mother’s story, in particular, stood out as a glaring example of a medically unnecessary, eugenic abortion of a child with a disability.<\/p>\n

Anabely Lopes, a Florida woman who sought an abortion after receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 18, was the guest of Democratic Florida Rep.\u00a0Debbie Wasserman Schultz.<\/a>\u00a0 The Miami Herald features Lopes’ story, explaining<\/a> that she and her husband consulted with doctors, and decided that an abortion was necessary. So she flew from Florida to Washington, D.C., to undergo the procedure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt it was our duty to protect our daughter from neglectful suffering if she were to make it to term,” Lopes said in a press conference. “We made the painful decision to end our very wanted pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

Florida law does allow abortions in case of a fatal fetal abnormality, but Trisomy 18 \u2014 like Down syndrome before it<\/a> \u2014 is increasingly becoming a survivable condition. One of the largest issues with Trisomy 18 today is not<\/em> that it is inherently fatal, but that doctors refuse to give children\u00a0with the condition\u00a0<\/i>medical care<\/a> that will allow them to live<\/i>.<\/p>\n