{"id":291216,"date":"2023-05-18T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=291216"},"modified":"2023-05-18T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:49:53","slug":"hillary-clinton-advocates-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hillary-clinton-advocates-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton advocates death for preborn baby girl with disability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton advocated for discrimination-based abortions in a tweet<\/a> on May 15, throwing her support behind the abortion of a preborn girl with Turner syndrome.<\/p>\n

“An Idaho mother faced two options: Continue a pregnancy likely to end in miscarriage or stillbirth, with risks to her own health, or travel out of state for an abortion,” tweeted Clinton. “These stories are playing out all over the country.”<\/p>\n

Clinton ended her tweet by linking to an article<\/a> in the Idaho Capital Sun lamenting Idaho’s pro-life law protecting most preborn children from abortion, which prohibited the killing of the preborn daughter of Jennifer Adkins. At 12 weeks, Adkins learned her daughter “likely had Turner syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality that ends in miscarriage in 99% of cases,” according to the article. It only affects girls, and for those who do survive, there is a risk of health issues.<\/p>\n

It is unclear if Adkins underwent definitive testing, as early prenatal screening only provides the level of risk<\/em> that a child has a certain health condition, not<\/em> a positive or negative result.<\/p>\n

Adkins said that due to her daughter’s diagnosis, she herself was at risk of developing mirror syndrome, which would cause the mother to experience similar symptoms to her preborn child. Dr. Maria Palmquist, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, told States Newsroom that this could lead<\/em> to preeclampsia. Adkins wanted to have an abortion, but Idaho law doesn’t allow abortion due to a fetal diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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It’s important to note that Adkins had not<\/em> developed a life-threatening condition, but if she had<\/em> developed preeclampsia, there would have been treatments to help. If those treatments<\/a> were unsuccessful, doctors would have delivered her daughter prematurely \u2014 which is not<\/em> an induced abortion meant to deliberately kill a child. In an emergency delivery, they could have tried to save both lives. There was no immediate medical need for Adkins’s pregnancy to end and there was never a need to intentionally and directly kill her preborn daughter through induced abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard knowing that my body and the fetus are trying so hard to hang on,\u201d Adkins said. \u201cAnd we had to make a really hard decision. Do we try? But for what purpose? There\u2019s no sense in bringing a child into this world that\u2019s not going to survive anyway or have severe complications. And it\u2019s not fair to any of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The editor-in-chief of The Federalist, Mollie Hemingway, responded to Clinton’s tweet with an essay<\/a> by Caitlin Bawn, a woman who lives with Turner syndrome and worries that prenatal testing like that Adkins underwent is causing parents to make “irreversible decisions without understanding the disorder.”<\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton here argues for the killing of babies with Turner Syndrome. She should meet the author of this piece, who has Turner Syndrome. https:\/\/t.co\/NsXNkXPWPk<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/GjPKY5Oybp<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n