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2021-02-02 -Land of the Free
U.S. Senator Says Aborting Babies with Down Syndrome Is ‘Eugenics'
[Breitbart] Targeting babies with Down syndrome for abortion is "the most lethal kind of discrimination imaginable," Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) declared this week.

Speaking with Catholic News Agency (CNA), Sen. Daines, the Senate pro-life caucus chair, noted that "babies with Down syndrome are the most endangered on Earth" because of the frequency with which they are singled out for abortion.

"This is eugenics, and we cannot allow this to continue in our country," Daines said in the interview published on January 31.

Daines is a cosponsor of the Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act, sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), which would ban a doctor from performing an abortion being sought because the unborn child has Down syndrome.

While the legislation would not penalize the expectant mother in any way, it would enact a federal ban on the performance of an abortion with the knowledge that a pregnant woman is seeking an abortion, in whole or in part, on the basis of a belief that her unborn child has Down syndrome.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-02-02 02:12|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 The way things going - aborting a Down syndrome embryo = aborting a future POTUS!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-02 02:22||   2021-02-02 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Ow!
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-02 09:03||   2021-02-02 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 At this point, a down syndrome adult would be an improvement at the POTUS position.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-02-02 09:18||   2021-02-02 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Indeed. My daughter with Down syndome. Picture if you would legislation such as National Donut Day.

Sounds pretty good right now isn't it?
Posted by Secret Master  2021-02-02 10:57||   2021-02-02 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 (Freaking cell phone keyboard. You know what I mean!)
Posted by Secret Master  2021-02-02 10:58||   2021-02-02 10:58|| Front Page Top

#6 darth I actually LOL at that one
Posted by Chris 2021-02-02 13:51||   2021-02-02 13:51|| Front Page Top

#7 There are plenty of stories out there of Down Syndrome babies going on to become productive adults. They may not be rocket scientists but their lives have value. I believe it is a sin to kill them because of their disability.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-02-02 14:32||   2021-02-02 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I believe it's the prospective parents' decision
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-02 14:45||   2021-02-02 14:45|| Front Page Top

#9 ^-- for now. :(
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-02 14:46||   2021-02-02 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Grom: Why say "prospective" parents? Does the child have some other set of parents? The parents do not consider themselves to be parents b/c the child is unwanted, yet they are.

Women who abort do not see themselves as mothers simply because the child is unwanted ('planned parenthood' indeed).

Remember the unborn.

Jesus protect and save the unborn.
Posted by Uluter Snaque1079 2021-02-02 21:43||   2021-02-02 21:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Plead providers of every purport,
"Down syndrome? Please do not abort!
Our families depend
On the hand you'll extend
For our help, and we need your support."
Posted by Gretle Untervehr6457 2021-02-02 22:56||   2021-02-02 22:56|| Front Page Top

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