Matthew at Creative Minority Report in response to an article where 92% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted titles his post “We are not a Pro-Life Nation.”
Which is exactly right. Even many that label themselves pro-life are not fully so. I know I once described myself as pro-life while support abortion in the case of rape and incest. So I was semi-pro life with inconsistent caveats. Plus how many people declare themselves pro-life while seeing nothing wrong with IVF and the storage of human beings in a freezer? Or the pro-lifers who say life is a gift from God while actively frustrating that gift via contraception not to mention using contraceptives that have an abortafacient mechanism.
The new eugenics with the destruction of children with Down Syndrome is sad beyond belief. We condemn what lead up to Nazi ideology while accepting the idea of “life unworthy of life.” While more and more people are coming to be opposed to abortion on some level we have a very long way to go before we could be called a pro-life nation.
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Fr. Finigan also posted a piece that Abp. Chaput wrote about this very topic in First Things.
I likewise posted about it on my blog:
http://defend-us-in-battle.blogspot.com/2009/11/downs-syndrome-abortion-abp-chaput.html
I think that overall that we are still far from being a pro-life nation. Yet, with blogs like this and CMR we are doing our part to spread awareness and press the issue.
In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.
I work with a Catholic young lady who considers herself pro-life, well, “except when the baby would have cottage cheese for a brain.” Oh, and she has an iud in because she and her husband aren’t ready for another child just yet. But it’s okay because “it doesn’t have any hormones in it.” Ya gotta wonder if some people ever even TRY to educate themselves! But, she really is an intelligent young woman and I try a little bit every so often to steer her in the right direction. I agree that we do not live in a pro-life country, but I have hope and I work towards that goal.
It took a long time for me to get from pro-death feminist to 100% pro-life without exception, without excuse, without compromise. We need to take ownership of the language–if we have any “exceptions”, we are not pro-life–we are pro-death with some life exceptions. Oremus!
My youngest brother is Down Syndrome and he is the only sane one in the bunch. Thank God he have him to us, we NEED him.
Wow, how terrible sad that is to realize that 92% of children with Down Syndrome are aborted.
What a disgusting fact about our nation… about people’s behaviors.
Interesting, did you plan to continue this article?
Thank you
Ivan