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Old enough to know that you’re all off to hell in a hand basket.

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Aborting a child for a Down syndrome diagnosis is evil, and we should call it evil. Eugenics and infanticide do not deserve our sympathy or compassion.

[Blonde Musings 🇺🇸 @musings_blonde]

I work with children with all types of disabilities, most of which weren’t diagnosed before birth.

Each child is unique and valuable.

My students with Down syndrome, in particular, have been one of the greatest joys of my career.

The world would be poorer without them.

[Justin W. 🌳🪓 @JDubbAHA]

This week, my daughter who has Down Syndrome graduates from High School.

You didn't make a difficult decision @McJuggerNuggets; you decided to subscribe to Eugenics and committed murder against an image bearer because they weren't like you. Sounds like a Nazi move.

[Jared Cook @jkimballcook]

I don't think it's immoral to end a pregnancy where severe birth defects mean the child will not live past birth, but ending a pregnancy because the child is likely to have intellectual disabilities is just eugenics.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING: The Michigan House just passed bills that BAN genital mutilations, hormone drugs, and puberty blockers for CHILDREN.

Every single Democrat voted against it.

[Andrew Daub @TheResoluteLife]

This is exactly why I do what I do.

This is why Team Iron Will exists — not just for my son, but for every family who has ever been made to feel like their child was a mistake.

Iron Will is five years old. He laughs at everything — including my jokes. He already has more fight in him than most adults I know.

Comments like this say everything about the person writing them — and nothing about the people they're written against. And they are exactly why I will never stop fighting.

Not with anger. With purpose.

Because Iron Will, and every person with Down syndrome, deserves a world where their existence isn't up for debate. Where their value isn't reduced to a calculation by strangers online. Where no one gets to decide whether they should have been allowed to live.

I'm his father. And I will spend every breath I have making sure the world he grows up in looks nothing like the one this comment represents.

That's not a threat. That's a promise.

#IronWill #TeamIronWill #DownSyndromeAdvocacy #SayYesToPossibility

[Steven Godofsky @sgodofsk]

George Will's son Jon has Down syndrome. In 2013, he wrote this celebrating Jon's 40th birthday.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

The various posters are right today. Raising children with Down syndrome *is* hard. It gets harder as they get older and I get older.

What the posters don’t understand is that we ought not snuff out people who are burdens to us. That’s the hard truth of being human I guess.

[ᥴꪮᦓꪑꪮ @jagrmeister]

My first child had a brain cyst detected in utero, and doctors told us there was an 80% chance she had Trisomy 18, with very little chance of survival. Abortion was never an option for my wife and me.

And here we are today, 23 years later. ❤️

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

The Venn diagram between people who think you should get fired for using the R word and people who think you should be able to euthanize your child if it has Down syndrome is almost a circle

[Heather Groening @heathergroening]

Curious why people who actively support abortion ask for empathy. If it’s a “clump of cells,” why would they require empathy? If it’s “not even a human yet,” what does it matter?

Imagine propagating the narrative that abortion is no big deal, but then it requiring sympathy from the internet.

[... @lesilly]

Where is YOURS for people with DS? These two narcissists certainly don't have empathy for people with DS.

Why is the empathy always demanded for the most heinous as opposed to the actual victims?

Imagine if there was a gene for "gender dysphoria". I would much rather filet that dna out of the pool if we're just picking and choosing who's tolerable nowadays.

If we don't tell A-holes that they're A-holes, they'll never stop.
Choices have consequences and these two hit publish.

[... @lesilly]

it's stuff like this that makes abortion a literal slippery slope.

Technology is going to get to the point where we will know all sorts of information about unborn babies. Picking and choosing who is "appropriate" for society shouldn't be a humans decision. humans are clearly awful and dumb.

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

@JillFilipovic Piling shame isn’t helpful, but pushing back is.

This man has a massive platform and is sending the message that Down syndrome kids are a “bad outcome” who can just be eliminated while parents “try again” for a more desirable child.

[... @lesilly]

@rboger12 @LizWolfeReason agree. they should be ashamed.
people get shamed for far less all the time.
Their initial choice is selfish and disturbing enough, but making it content is proof to me of rapid human de-evolution.

They seem to have no shame.

[... @lesilly]

@LizWolfeReason yep.
Refuse the test altogether.
The test itself is a problem.

[... @lesilly]

@CrimeWatchMpls oh noooo. Reading this made me want McDonald's 😩😭 🍟

[Chris V•D•M•A 🦬 @TexianPa]

I’ve had a hard time focusing today. I just can’t quite put down that despicable post from the man that aborted his daughter because her test results indicated she likely had Down Syndrome.

As the father of a daughter with DS, I know the statistics (I also know how the conversation goes with the Geneticist…), but to see someone publicly announce the murder of their child, and with such egocentric disdain, just has me very upset today.

Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, have mercy

God in heaven, thank you for the gift of my Ellie.

[Jared L Kubin @JaredKubin]

For all the parents out there dealing with a decision... let me give you another perspective

In 2018 my wife and I went in for our 20? week ultra sound at Beth Israel in Boston... the rep was very quiet the whole time, something seemed off. My wife & I were first time parents... didn't have much context. The doctor pulled us into her office and told us our sons nuchal fold was abnormally large... she went on to say there is a significant increased chance of Down Syndrome and even Turner's syndrome... talked about options to terminate the pregnancy. My wife was inconsolable, rightly so ... even thinking about it now brings back a lot of heavy emotions because of how hard of a day it was... hard...

I did a lot of research on the topic ... my wife & I prayed non stop about it. All we could do. The doctors wanted to do an amniocentesis which has its own host of risks..run more tests...

We came to the conclusion, which was not easy... it didn't matter... no amnio, no more tests.... I felt in my soul the Lord's plan was perfect and if our son was going to have Down Syndrome we would love him and shepherd him through this world the best we could. We get what we get. Anything from the Lord was a BLESSING and I was not going to point my finger at Him

Fast forward to today... our son is going to be 8 in the fall. He is perfect. Just hit a homerun the other day... a much better baseball player than I was at his age. My best friend

I share this deeply personal story for nothing more than to give just ONE parent hope... the Lord's plan is perfect... stay the course

[... @lesilly]

@itsme_urstruly hey hey hey... don't forget, you could add fruit.