From what I’ve heard, the Down syndrome community doesn’t tend to be particularly keen on some of the laws around abortion and pre-term screening, because parents who find out their unborn child has Down syndrome are far more likely to abort, so the Down syndrome community feel like they’re being erased.
Other women’s reproductive choices aren’t about you. *It makes me feel bad* is not a reason to change a law
If women pregnant with a baby with Down’s can’t access legal abortions, they will have illegal abortions. The fact is, women like this campaigner are the exception and not the norm. Many people with Down’s have very significant learning disabilities, autism and other disabilities. It isn’t a life most parents want for their children.
If I got pregnant with a baby that had Down’s, I would abort. If that wasn’t legal, I would either procure pills from the Internet and induce my own or travel abroad for an abortion. This might sound harsh, but it’s reality. The odds of a negative outcome are too high.
What a narcissistic fucker. ‘And its even better it happened on international women’s day.’
Yeah, what a great day to be fighting against women’s reproductive rights.
Is she going to step up and provide for all the unwanted downs babies that she wants women to be forced to birth against their will?
Go away now love, and take your nutty US fundie puppetmasters with you.
So, for those who won’t read the article, the issue is this:
> Heidi Crowter challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth, saying it was unlawfully discriminatory.
Its the fact that if a baby has downs, it can be aborted up until birth. Well after a baby is viable. It is an addendum to abortion rights. The argument is that this is discriminatory, and is effectively eugenics.
Its not “womens reproductive rights should be limited”, it is “perhaps we should not kill babies with downs simply for having downs.”
So unless you want things to change to “people should be able to abort up until the moment of birth, regardless of if the child can survive out of the womb”, you want things to remain discriminatory.
The last time this issue surfaced there were interviews with parents offered abortion *whilst in labor*.
So. That is the issue. Its a bit more complicated than normal, and it isn’t an attack on existing abortion rights, it is an attack on the extension for the window given if your child might be born with downs.
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From what I’ve heard, the Down syndrome community doesn’t tend to be particularly keen on some of the laws around abortion and pre-term screening, because parents who find out their unborn child has Down syndrome are far more likely to abort, so the Down syndrome community feel like they’re being erased.
Other women’s reproductive choices aren’t about you. *It makes me feel bad* is not a reason to change a law
If women pregnant with a baby with Down’s can’t access legal abortions, they will have illegal abortions. The fact is, women like this campaigner are the exception and not the norm. Many people with Down’s have very significant learning disabilities, autism and other disabilities. It isn’t a life most parents want for their children.
If I got pregnant with a baby that had Down’s, I would abort. If that wasn’t legal, I would either procure pills from the Internet and induce my own or travel abroad for an abortion. This might sound harsh, but it’s reality. The odds of a negative outcome are too high.
What a narcissistic fucker. ‘And its even better it happened on international women’s day.’
Yeah, what a great day to be fighting against women’s reproductive rights.
Is she going to step up and provide for all the unwanted downs babies that she wants women to be forced to birth against their will?
Go away now love, and take your nutty US fundie puppetmasters with you.
So, for those who won’t read the article, the issue is this:
> Heidi Crowter challenged legislation allowing foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth, saying it was unlawfully discriminatory.
Its the fact that if a baby has downs, it can be aborted up until birth. Well after a baby is viable. It is an addendum to abortion rights. The argument is that this is discriminatory, and is effectively eugenics.
Its not “womens reproductive rights should be limited”, it is “perhaps we should not kill babies with downs simply for having downs.”
So unless you want things to change to “people should be able to abort up until the moment of birth, regardless of if the child can survive out of the womb”, you want things to remain discriminatory.
The last time this issue surfaced there were interviews with parents offered abortion *whilst in labor*.
So. That is the issue. Its a bit more complicated than normal, and it isn’t an attack on existing abortion rights, it is an attack on the extension for the window given if your child might be born with downs.