Members of Congress will be reintroducing a ban on abortion based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome on Friday, the same day as the virtual March for Life.
The legislation being introduced by Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., would permit relatives of aborted children killed based on a Down syndrome diagnosis to bring civil action against the abortion performers. The bill specifies that the mother of the child cannot be prosecuted.
Children with Down syndrome are being targeted and exterminated at alarming rates. In the United States, 67 percent of babies with a Down syndrome diagnosis are aborted. In European countries, it’s worse. A disturbing 98 percent of babies with this diagnosis are aborted in Denmark and nearly 100 percent in Iceland.
Legislation to prevent the abortion of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome has been reintroduced by Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. (Photo: Eleonora os/Getty Images)
Two conservative lawmakers again moved to protect one of America’s most vulnerable populations by reintroducing legislation to prevent the abortion of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome.
In America, a Down syndrome diagnosis for an unborn baby results in abortion 67% of the time, according to Healthline.
“It’s tragic that in the United States babies are being targeted simply because they have one more chromosome,” Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan., said in a formal statement. “This legislation is about ensuring that the rights of individuals with disabilities are protected.”
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When María Amarilla was eleven years old, she was sexually abused by a family member. “For years I remained silent because I didn’t know it was wrong and didn’t know who to talk to,” she told openDemocracy.
The abuse “lasted for a while, and when my school organised a spiritual retreat I tried to talk to someone, but everything the girls heard there was about our ‘sins’: the clothes we wore, the words we used. So I shut up.”
At the age of fifteen, Amarilla – who is now a spokesperson for the National Union of Student Centers of Paraguay – reported the abuse to police, “but trauma and psychological damage were still there. There’s no support from institutions.”
âI never have felt that any abortion should be committed â I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors,â stated Jimmy Carter.
Being interviewed on his book, Our Enduring Values-Americaâs Moral Crisis, former Democrat President Carter stated at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC, November 3, 2005:
âI have always thought it was not in the mainstream of the American public to be extremely liberal on many issues. I think our partyâs leaders ⦠are overemphasizing the abortion issue.â
Carter added:
âIâve never been convinced, if you let me inject my Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion.â
Trimming an abortion giant down to size
Friday, January 8, 2021 |
Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
Planned Parenthood s latest round of lawsuits against Texas apparently is coming to an end.
For several years, the abortion giant has been in the courts fighting against the Lone Star State, which wants to bar the organization from receiving state Medicaid funds. The state has established February 3 as the cutoff date, and also refused a Planned Parenthood request for a 30-day stay.
Kyleen Wright of the Texans for Life Coalition tells One News Now that women in Texas won t be cheated. Wright Now [abortion advocates are] crying foul that women won t be able to get health care elsewhere – and you know that s not true, she argues. When [the state] established this program, they appropriated $174 million to pay for family planning in women s health. They have only added to that in the years since.