This is what “terminating a pregnancy” looks like:
In the 1st trimester, abortion pills starve a child to death & a woman will deliver her baby in a toilet. A suction D&C is also common in the 1st trimester, in which an abortionist: Rapidly tears the baby apart with the use of a suction machine 10x more powerful than a household vacuum. A baby at this age sucks her thumb and has a heartbeat and brain waves.
In the 2nd trimester, a D&E abortion involves tearing off a baby's limbs one by one, then removing the spine & crushing the baby's head. The abortionist then scrapes out any remaining body parts. Towards the end of the 2nd trimester, babies can be born premature & survive.
A 3rd trimester induced abortion involves injecting a large needle through a woman's abdomen & injecting digoxin - a lethal injection - into the baby's head or heart. A woman then carries the dead baby for 2-3 days before delivering her dead child.
This is not a “choice” anyone should be permitted to make. Not in cases in which a baby has a disability, not in cases of rape or incest, not in cases in which a child may have a “hard life.” Don’t we all?
If we care about justice, if we care about inclusivity, if we care about love—we should outlaw abortion.
@DisrespectedThe AMEN !!
In comments, quite a few people say they were given the same news, had the baby... no Down's Syndrome. Perfectly healthy. the test isn't 100% accurate... they killed the baby "just in case..." Horrific.
@McJuggerNuggets I know someone who once got a similar diagnosis. She chose to keep the baby. Turns out the test was wrong and her baby came out perfectly healthy and normal.
The woman was my mom and the baby was me.
I, too, was told my baby had Downs Syndrome. Unlike you, I decided to follow through with the pregnancy and spent several months mentally preparing myself for what was to come.
My daughter was later born perfectly normal. Thinking back on how doctors advised me to abort after 2 different tests, both with false positives, really angers me.
How many babies have been aborted over these dumb tests? 😢
Just learned that the couple who aborted their baby for having Downs was a) documenting the story for weeks for clicks and b) has a disabled dog they've spent tons of $$ keeping alive. Anyone who pretends this is some morally gray issue rather that straight-up evil is either stupid or lying.
@McJuggerNuggets Doctors normalize this by saying "have this test so you know.. and you can decide..." doesn't make it ok. You're devastated cuz you know what you did was so wrong.
@McJuggerNuggets Your child deserved so much more.
Disabled children are just as valuable as able-bodied children.
Killing children because of a diagnosis isn’t just ableism.
It’s evil.
Imagine the message you are sending right now to every person with down syndrome around the world. You are telling them that their lives are not worth living. You are telling them that if their existence is an inconvenience for someone else that person should have the right to kill them.
This is a horrific post and I hope you come to see that someday soon.