Society

Abortion for the sake of society

A deadly plague with victims

Abortion is bad for society because it is bad for people! Abortion is bad for the child. The child is already in the world. She should not be excluded from membership in our society merely because she is still in a secluded place, necessary for her so that she is nourished and protected during those first formative weeks of her life. Abortion is bad because it represents frightening hazards for women, physically and psychologically.

It is bad because of its effects on other children. It is bad because of its effects on the family structure. It is bad because of its effects on men. Abortion is bad because of its effects on human relations.

Many other dimensions could be added: its effect on the medical profession when doctors, committed to healing and saving, become hired killers; its effect on nurses having to reassemble the broken pieces of a baby torn apart by the abortion knife; and its effect on the society that lives in the midst of a holocaust. Abortion is a deadly plague with many victims.

Often it is the pregnancy that is unwanted. The child once born, and perhaps even before birth, is very much wanted. A child unwanted now may be very much wanted later. And if a child is at first wanted, then later unwanted, does the objection imply that she should later be killed, when she is born? Adoption, not abortion. While millions of babies are killed, so many couples who want to adopt cannot.

Abortion for disabled babies increasing at alarming rate

In the UK and other countries where abortion has become 'normal', abortions of babies with Down's syndrome, deformed feet, cleft lips and palates, as well as other medical abnormalities, have become more and more commonplace. According to statistics released by the Office For National Statistics in England and Wales over the last 8 years more and more women are choosing to abort their babies who may have some form of handicap. These kinds of abortions spiked by 8 percent in 2004 and have increases ever since.

Of Down's syndrome babies, 690 were aborted in 2002, an increase of 17 percent over the 2001 total of 591. More babies were aborted in 2002 who had Down's syndrome (372) than those that were born with the disease (329).

Several chilling studies and examples show how babies with disabilities are targeted by abortion:

A study from Wayne State University found that 87% of unborn children diagnosed with Down Syndrome were aborted.

(1) An review of studies in several countries showed 92% of unborn children who were diagnosed with Down Syndrome were aborted. (2)
Children diagnosed prenatally with spina bifida were aborted 64% of the time. (2)
Twenty-six children diagnosed with cleft lips or palates, conditions that are correctable by surgery, were aborted in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2009. (3)
It was reported in the Sunday Times, that abortions for minor conditions which are correctable, are not even recorded. A a leading obstetrician said aborting so many fetuses with treatable conditions was “horrific” and described the failure to officially record the terminations as “a disgrace”.(4)
Infanticide of disabled newborn babies is also an issue of concern. Groningen University in the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal, advocated a policy under which disabled infants who are deemed to be suffering unbearably can be killed, and even went as far as killing a few infants. (5) Medical professionals (6) and bioethicists (7) in other countries have supported this view as well.
The Daily Mail reported on 8th June 2014 that half of all babies aborted for Down’s Syndrome are missing from official figures due to chaotic record-keeping in abortion clinics, a government investigation has revealed. Doctors have broken the law by failing to keep proper records for the Department of Health on the reason for termination. (8)

References

(1) Kramer, R.L., Jarve, R.K., Yaron, Y., et al (1998). Determinants of parental decisions after the prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 79(3), 172-174.

(2) Mansfield, C., Hopfer, S., Marteau, T.M. (1999). Termination rates after prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, spina bifida, anencephaly, and Turner and Klinefelter syndromes. Prenatal Diagnosis, 9, 808-812.

(3) Twenty-six babies aborted for cleft lips or palates. July 4, 2011 - www.telegraph.co.uk

(4) Hidden abortion of imperfect babies. 3 February 2013

(5) Netherlands grapples with euthanasia of babies. Nov. 30, 2004 - www.msnbc.msn.com

(6) Doctors: let us kill disabled babies. Nov. 5, 2006 - www.timesonline.co.uk

(7) Opposition Is Mounting Against Infanticide Ethicist. Mar. 21, 1999 www.ncregister.com

(8) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2652181/Half-babies-aborted-Downs-syndrome-missing-official-records-poor-administration-clinics.html

Thanks to Right to Life of Michigan for the info above

Dutch Minister of Health: if National screening program leads to disappearance of people with Down syndrome, society has to accept that

The Dutch Minister for Health made the statement in an in interview in early 2017. Mrs. Schippers said:

If freedom of choice results in a situation that nearly no children with Down syndrome are being born, society should accept that.

She said withholding information from parents about the health of their future children is‘undesirable’ and that participation in the National population screening program is an individual decision.

Though she is more honest than most abortion advocates, her statement has brought a lot of hurt to families of those with Down Syndrome.

Abortion for cleft lip

In the same year, five babies were aborted for deformed feet and another was killed because of a cleft lip and palate. Also, in 2000 and 2001 combined, nine babies were the victims of abortion because of a cleft lip and palate while two more babies were also aborted for having a cleft lip.

Rev. Joanna Jepson, a curate with the Church of England who fought on behalf of an aborted baby in a 2001 High Court case, said she is outraged at these statistics because they are an insult to surviving humans with these conditions.

Portrait of Rev. Joanna Jepson at her home in Chester. The 27-year-old Church of England curate, won the right in the High Court to challenge the decision by a police force not to prosecute the doctors who aborted a 24-week-old baby with a cleft palate. Jepson, who herself was born with a facial disfigurement, challenged the decision saying the abortion was illegal because a cleft palate does not constitute a "serious handicap."

Because of the technological advances in the detection of birth defects prior to birth, more and more women are choosing to end the life of their baby despite the fact that most of these conditions can be corrected once the baby is born. Abortions for babies who may be at risk of having a physical or mental condition or are deemed life-threatening are considered legal for any reason throughout the entire pregnancy according to Ground E of the Abortion Act in England.

Abortion for virtually any reason

According to the latest data published in the Health Statistics Quarterly from the Office for National Statistics for the National Congenital Anomaly System (NCAS) from 2002, 1,863 babies were aborted under this law compared with the 1,722 in 2001. This system virtually guarantees that women who want to have an abortion for any reason can do it.

London Metropolitan University ethics professor Jacqueline Laing said aborting babies because they have deformities is making the world a savage place. "We are obliterating the willingness of people to accept disability," Laing noted in the Drudge story. "Babies are required to fit a description of normality before they are allowed to be born."

How this impacts on society

It was reported by the BBC on 6 March 2008 that the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the UK said that vulnerable adults are particularly likely to be abused and neglected. Andrew Dismore, chairman of the committee, said: "It is extremely depressing to see, 10 years after the introduction of the Human Rights Act, the way people with learning disabilities are treated when using our services.

The evidence has shown us that the consequences of a lack of awareness of people's rights can be devastating.

The MPs and peers highlight cases where people in care homes or hospitals have been neglected and abused, as well as other breaches of human rights. The committee also heard of patients being inappropriately restrained with straps, or subject to a "chemical cosh". The committee was shocked that even in cases of horrific abuse, staff did not know they were doing wrong.

'Disability rights' means nothing if society advocates abortion for the disabled

Unfortunately, talk about rights for the disabled mean nothing if society advocates that the disabled should have been aborted in the first place. It puts disabled people on the defensive from the word go and forces them to establish their right to exist. The more disabled that are aborted, the more society accepts that they should not be there. This will amount to more abuse of the disabled an vulnerable as has been demonstrated above in the recent UK report.

Richard Dawkins: it’s ‘immoral’ NOT to abort babies with Down syndrome

In a bizzare Twitter rant, atheist guru Richard Dawkins said it was immoral not to abort a child with Down Syndrome.

Oone Twitter user wrote that he or she "honestly [doesn't] know what I would do if I were pregnant with a kid with Down Syndrome. Real ethical dilemma."

Dawkins advised the writer to "abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."

According to Dawkins, the issue of who should be born comes down to a calculation based upon possible suffering. "Yes. Suffering should be avoided. [The abortion] cause[s] no suffering. Reduce suffering wherever you can."

Down syndrome will be extinct in Denmark soon

The number of children born with Down Syndrome (DS) in Denmark has fallen drastically in recent years – so much so that the disorder could be a thing of the past in 30 years.

Since 2004 all pregnant women have been offered a DS scan – called a nuchal scan – and the number of abortions involving DS children has increased dramatically. Last year, 98 percent of pregnant women who were revealed to be carrying an unborn child with DS chose to have an abortion.