{"id":285554,"date":"2023-02-19T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T21:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285554"},"modified":"2023-02-17T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T02:12:51","slug":"massachusetts-politician-advocating-abortion-children-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/massachusetts-politician-advocating-abortion-children-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts politician criticized for openly advocating abortion of children with ‘defects’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A notable Massachusetts Democrat is under fire after arguing that abortion should be legal so preborn babies with disabilities can be aborted \u2014 because otherwise, they’ll be a drain on local school systems.<\/p>\n

Michael Hugo, chairman of the Framingham Democratic Committee, spoke<\/a> at a city council meeting in favor of a proclamation protecting abortion within the city. During his remarks, he criticized pregnancy resource centers, and expressed concern that the community would be burdened if women are unable to kill preborn children with “defects.”<\/p>\n

“Our fear is that if an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses a heart defect, an organ defect, spina bifida, or an encephalopathic defect, that becomes a very local issue, because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to children, who were born with the defect,” he said. “So it\u2019s our hope that the Council tonight will pass this ordinance, and by doing so perhaps one of the businesses that might be looking at coming to Framingham, will look at Framingham and decide, well, we better just keep driving and look for a different town or a different city.\u201d<\/p>\n