{"id":306115,"date":"2024-02-01T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=306115"},"modified":"2024-02-06T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T20:45:52","slug":"jill-biden-woman-aborted-disabled-state-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jill-biden-woman-aborted-disabled-state-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden invites woman who aborted disabled baby to State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First Lady Jill Biden has invited<\/a> Kate Cox \u2014 the Texas woman who sued the state so she could kill her disabled preborn baby closer to home \u2014 to the State of the Union address as her guest in March. Cox has accepted that invitation.<\/p>\n

Though Cox<\/a> had been willing to take the risks associated with her pregnancy for a baby who was assumed to be ‘healthy,’ once her baby received a diagnosis of Trisomy 18, she suddenly claimed that she needed an abortion to save her own health. Though children with Trisomy 18 have long been labeled “incompatible with life,” in recent years that label has been removed and children have shown they can live longer when given proper medical care. However, Cox saw a healthy baby as worth any potential pregnancy-related risks and a disabled baby as unworthy of those risks. She specifically asked in her lawsuit for the ability to kill her preborn baby through a D&E abortion, which would dismember<\/em><\/strong> the baby limb from limb \u2014 and argued that this was better for the child<\/em> than being born alive and intact and being held and cared for.<\/p>\n

“On Sunday, the president and first lady spoke to Kate Cox, who was forced to go to court to seek permission for the care she needed for a nonviable pregnancy that threatened her life, that threatened her life,” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre in a press briefing last week. “They thanked her for her courage in sharing her story and speaking out about the impact of the extreme abortion ban in Texas.” She added, \u201cHer story is incredibly powerful, devastating. And it speaks to the moment that we are in now, when we talk about women having the right to make these deeply personal decisions about their health care that was taken away by the Supreme Court.”<\/p>\n

But Jean-Pierre’s statement is not correct. If Cox’s life had truly been in jeopardy \u2014 and if a doctor had stated that her life was at risk \u2014 Cox would have been able to abort her baby in Texas. Instead, she lost her case and traveled<\/a> to pro-abortion New Mexico to have the abortion. The majority of preborn children are currently protected from abortion in Texas; however, the state law has an exception that states preborn babies can be intentionally and directly killed in the womb if their mother’s life is at risk (though this intentional killing is not truly medically necessary<\/a>).<\/p>\n