{"id":309033,"date":"2024-03-21T08:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309033"},"modified":"2024-03-21T00:15:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T05:15:33","slug":"celebrate-people-down-syndrome-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/celebrate-people-down-syndrome-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"We should always celebrate people with Down syndrome… including in the womb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media’s portrayal of people with Down syndrome has grown more positive in recent years, with featured stories of people with Down syndrome that highlight their achievements. Many of these are published on March 21 \u2014 World Down Syndrome Day \u2014 and rightly so.<\/p>\n

People who have Down syndrome don’t fit into a box. They have a variety of skill sets and abilities. Some may require 24-hour care, others may live their lives with their parents, while others may have jobs, live on their own, and get married. Each person’s story is different \u2014 which is what makes life the amazing miracle that it is. No two people are exactly alike. Yet, major media news outlets are still hypocritical when it comes to how they treat human beings with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

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21 march World Down Syndrome Day, vector<\/p><\/div>\n

While even the pro-abortion media celebrates life with Down syndrome on World Down syndrome Day, the rest of the year it advocates for the killing of preborn children with Down syndrome by abortion.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, the media rightly celebrates people with Down syndrome as human beings, as individuals with their own skill sets and abilities. But on the other hand, it pounces on any pro-life law that does not provide the “exceptions” that would allow for aborting babies who receive a diagnosis like Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

Reducing people to “numbers”<\/strong><\/p>\n

In May of 2023, MSNBC featured<\/a> a story on Mia Armstrong, a girl with Down syndrome, discussing Mattel’s first ever Barbie doll with Down syndrome. It’s a sweet story and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle was all smiles with Mia and her mom. Is it great that Mattel made a doll with Down syndrome? Yes. Is it wonderful that MSNBC celebrated it and spoke to a little girl about it? Yes.<\/p>\n

But it’s also likely that if Mia’s mother had wanted an abortion and been denied one, MSNBC would have defended her right to have that very same person killed before birth.<\/p>\n

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