Texas law means more people with Down syndrome will be allowed to live, leftist scholar frets

Sep 4, 2021 by Jill

by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite:

There are a handful of events in the last few years that have indicated how essential abortion is to the progressive worldview – and why. Most recently, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg triggered an outpouring of grief and rage not because she had died – but because legal abortion might be threatened. But the reactions on the Left to the Texas Heartbeat Act have been particularly revealing.

A former scholar from Columbia University tweeted on September 2 that the Texas law would essentially outlaw eugenic abortions, allowing children with Down syndrome to be born rather than aborted. “You can’t screen for Down syndrome before about 10 weeks, and something like 80% of Down syndrome fetuses are aborted,” Richard Hanania tweeted. “If red states ban abortion, we could see a world where they have five times as many children with Down syndrome, and similar numbers for other disabilities.”

He continued in another tweet: “Could be outliers in the whole developed world. There are already negative stereotypes of Americans in these states. One can imagine it getting much more extreme. What if they also ban genetic engineering and embryo selection, while other places go ahead?”

Hanania is president of the “Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology,” which “supports and funds research on how ideology and policy contribute to scientific and social progress.”

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Read also: Texas’s heartbeat win gives America a ray of hope when we needed it most by Calvin Freiburger

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