{"id":98805,"date":"2016-08-08T14:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=98805"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:48:20","slug":"cnn-contributor-abortion-definitely-not-the-answer-to-zika-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cnn-contributor-abortion-definitely-not-the-answer-to-zika-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN contributor: Abortion &#8216;definitely not the answer&#8217; to Zika problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As abortion activists continue to use the Zika virus\u00a0as a political pawn, pro-life leaders are seeking a more ethical and effective solution than simply killing potentially affected babies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As Live Action News <a href=\"\/news\/rubio-zika-shouldnt-be-used-as-political-football-to-fund-abortion\/\">reported<\/a>, last weekend, Sen. Marco Rubio spoke out against the abortion industry&#8217;s attempts to use Zika as an opportunity to fund abortion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MVGF_RTT-3A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, microcephaly [a potential birth defect resulting from a pregnant woman contracting Zika] is a terrible prenatal condition that kids are born with,&#8221; said Rubio.\u00a0&#8220;And when they are, it\u2019s a lifetime of difficulties. I\u2019m not pretending to you that that\u2019s an easy question you asked me. But,\u201d he concluded, \u201cI believe all human life should be protected by our law, irrespective of the circumstances or condition of that life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, CNN contributor and Trump supporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/08\/08\/trump-spokeswoman-ban-abortions-on-babies-with-zika-because-disabilities-are-nothing-new\/\">Scottie Nell Hughes<\/a>\u00a0agreed with Rubio in his\u00a0battle for a better\u00a0solution,\u00a0suggesting that\u00a0birth defects are\u00a0not a new problem, and that ending the lives of potentially disabled preborn babies is not\u00a0a &#8220;solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Sen. Rubio is doing the correct thing,&#8221;\u00a0said Hughes.\u00a0&#8220;One out of every 33 babies in the United States right now is born with a birth defect. We\u2019re going to&#8230;terminate a life because you\u2019re possibly going to be born with [microcephaly]? I think that\u2019s actually very hypocritical of the Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes continued, \u201cAbortion is definitely not the answer for a way to&#8230;cure this disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As pro-life leaders have contended from the beginning stages of the Zika outbreak, human life is valuable and we must continue to support research, medical aid, and other legitimate ways to combat Zika that do not involve killing off those affected by the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As abortion activists continue to use the Zika virus\u00a0as a political pawn, pro-life leaders are seeking a more ethical and effective solution than simply killing potentially affected babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":98811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CNN contributor: Abortion &#039;definitely not the answer&#039; 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