Just because Andrea Peyser is unaware of how vigorously the medical profession screens pregnant women for fetuses with disabilities does not mean that it does not happen. It is a regular procedure and some women object. Many are intimidated by their doctor's urgings. No less than the prominent "ethicist" (Ahem!) at Princeton University Peter Singer advocates allowing parents of severely disabled babies to kill them within the first six months of life. His argument is that they would be free to have another child which would increase happiness in the world. Inquire of the group of disability advocates in Chicago, Not Dead Yet. They've opposed this institutionalized insult by medical professionals for many years. Peyser is aware and intelligent. But this shows she is far from omniscient.
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"This unusual, to say the least, episode led Santorum to the conclusion that prenatal testing, such as potentially lifesaving amniocentesis, was a ploy by the medical community to identify and abort babies with Down syndrome and other afflictions.
“Ninety percent of these kids or more are aborted, because the medical community thinks that these folks just have lives that aren’t worth living,” he said in Tucson, offering no evidence.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/weird_reality_of_rick_world_LyW6ekJ4vOisTCKBwVFJzJ
Weird reality of Rick’s World
Andrea Peyser
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:10 AM, February 27, 2012
Posted: 1:36 AM, February 27, 2012
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