So a woman wrote an op-ed telling the world that Down Syndrome children should be murdered in the womb. And now all liberals are calling her “brave.”
Here’s a segment from the post:
I have had two children; I was old enough, when I became pregnant, that it made sense to do the testing for Down syndrome. Back then, it was amniocentesis, performed after 15 weeks; now, chorionic villus sampling can provide a conclusive determination as early as nine weeks. I can say without hesitation that, tragic as it would have felt and ghastly as a second-trimester abortion would have been, I would have terminated those pregnancies had the testing come back positive. I would have grieved the loss and moved on.
Notice how she frames the issue in her tweet:
Question: is there a moral distinction between choosing to have an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome and having an abortion because you don’t want a baby and became pregnant accidentally. Please discuss, civilly. https://t.co/iOYsvSFlRv
— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) March 10, 2018
See what’s she’s doing? She’s not just saying it’s OK to kill Down Syndrome children – she’s saying if anyone is OK with that, then they should be OK with killing any baby at all for any reason of inconvenience. Cuz let’s face it, kids are inconvenient. Killing them in the womb is less inconvenient.
That’s why liberals are applauding, even as the blood on their hands spurts out with every clap:
Courageous column, @ruthmarcus “I would’ve aborted a fetus with Down syndome. Women need that right.” https://t.co/rgKeEZx49s
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) March 10, 2018
It takes “courage” to advocate for child killing when you know it’s wrong and kinda evil, I guess.
Brit Hume saw right through it:
If abortion ok for Down syndrome, why not for any condition? As she says, “That was not the child I wanted.” Suppose it was a boy, and she wanted a girl? I would’ve aborted a fetus with Down syndome. Women need that right. https://t.co/Hshqd8R9AG
— Brit Hume (@brithume) March 10, 2018
Meanwhile, those of us who aren’t bloodthirsty baby-killers aren’t as cool with it:
Aborting children with Down syndrome is motivated by the sinister idea that "abnormal" people are better off dead. That no life at all is better than a life touched by suffering. But what life doesn't have suffering? And aren't we all still lucky to be alive? https://t.co/zSXpNiZO2d
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) March 10, 2018
It’s hard to think of a take that is more monstrous than “we need the right to abort babies with Down Syndrome.”
Acknowledging that these babies have separate biological conditions than their mothers is kind of acknowledging that they are unique human beings, no? https://t.co/Gf2E3ecIVn
— James Hasson (@JamesHasson20) March 10, 2018
I remember when the left got pissed that Ann Coulter called Obama "the R word." A) It absolutely was wrong for her to say that. B) But how to square pearl-clutching at that while cheering on the killing of Down Syndrome people? https://t.co/SCWjPoAQMJ
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 10, 2018
.@RuthMarcus please meet Frank Stephens. His message, “I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living.” pic.twitter.com/iVZVKIubcJ
— Courtney Shadegg (@CShadegg) March 10, 2018
Here is the reality. Here is the truth.
We have been slowly but surely eradicating Down Syndrome in the West by destroying these children before they are born.
History will not leave this without judgment.
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) March 10, 2018
Domenech can be pretty terrible about everything else, but he’s right about this:
Life is beautiful. It is crazy, flawed, wild as thought.
It has the space for our Down Syndrome friends.
They smile at us, and hug us, and love us.
And those who wish to destroy them deserve the judgment history will render – that when the moment came, they chose inhumanity.
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) March 10, 2018
My little guy and I just finished breakfast at @ChickfilA. Now he’s on the playground. My boy is smart. He’s funny. He throws a mean fastball. He’s the kindest, sweetest, most loving person ever. Down Syndrome doesn’t define him. Yet people wanted him dead before he was born. https://t.co/M61rdflrb7
— Kurt O’Michaels (@DatOtherMichael) March 10, 2018
A 2011 study found that nearly 99% of people with Down syndrome over the age of 12 said they were happy with their lives. 99% said they loved their families. 97% said they liked their brothers and sisters. 86% felt they could make friends easily. https://t.co/zSXpNiZO2d
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) March 10, 2018
I think the conservative logical response might be something like this – yes, we agree, there’s little substantively different between killing a baby because they have Down’s Syndrome, and killing them just because the pregnancy is inconvenient. So that’s why both should be outlawed, not why they both should be allowed.
The liberal spin on this is that it’s easy for the rest of us to make that decision for a woman who has to bear the child and perhaps go through the pain of putting it up for adoption. And you know what? They’re right. We have to acknowledge that we’re advocating for forcing people to do something that is really difficult. But that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. That means life is tough sometimes. Recognizing that life can be very difficult at times doesn’t mean killing children should be used as an escape hatch to make life easier.