Deliberate Focus to Kill The Innocent and Defenseless

Selective Abortion

State Murder of Down Syndrome Babies Rises in UK

Dr Thomas Williams
Breitbart London

The number of Irish babies with Down syndrome aborted in England rose by 60 percent in just one year, from 17 in 2018 to 27 in 2019, the Iona Institute reports.

Since abortion was legalized in Ireland in January 2019, the number of abortions performed on Irish women in the UK in 2019 dropped by over 650 percent last year, but this did not curb the number of Down syndrome babies being aborted. On the contrary, that figure rose, mainly because British law allows abortion up to birth of babies suspected of having Down syndrome.

The UK’s Department for Health and Social Care released its official abortion figures for 2019 on June 11, revealing the highest number of abortions in the country’s history. According to the report, 209,519 abortions were performed in England and Wales during the 2019 calendar year, the highest number ever.

Commenting on the report, Dr. Angelo Bottone noted that of Irish women who terminated their pregnancies in England and Wales in 2019, 64 percent were single and 17.3 percent had had a previous abortion.

While abortions performed on Irish women for reasons of the “physical or mental health” of the mother decreased from 97 percent of the total to 83 percent, reasons of a child suspected of being seriously handicapped increased from three percent to 17 percent. The reason for this, Bottone notes, is that later term abortions (after 12 weeks) are still illegal under Irish law, and non-life-threatening conditions (such as Down Syndrome) are often discovered later on in a pregnancy.

Medical Hatred

How My Pregnancy Exposed The Silent Genocide Of Babies With Down Syndrome

It has never been a better time to be a person with Down syndrome, unless he is still in the womb.

Anna Bohach
The Federalist

When I was in my late 30s, I became pregnant with my youngest son. My family and I were overcome with joy and excitement at the promise of a new baby. My oldest son, having two younger sisters, had prayed every night for two and a half years for a baby brother named Charlie. God always listens to the prayers of children.

My excitement was short-lived and replaced with fear and uncertainty after a series of appointments wherein doctors told me I was of advanced maternal age and should consider genetic testing to be sure I wasn’t pregnant with a “defective” baby. I declined all genetic testing, much to my doctor’s dismay.

At 20 weeks, I had my first ultrasound and anatomy scan of my baby. My husband and I were very happy as we found out we were indeed having a boy. We came home that day and gave our children a box filled with blue balloons to reveal our baby’s sex.

The next day, I woke up on cloud nine, feeling healthy, happy, and joyful — until I got a call from my doctor informing me they had discovered an abnormality. She told me my baby had a mass on his neck that alarmed her, and she wanted to transfer me to a specialist in maternal fetal medicine. I asked what the mass might be, but she declined to tell me, saying she didn’t want to “freak me out.” Too late.

"Not Your Typical 51 Year Old"

Deacon With Down Syndrome Follows God’s Call

By Scott Patton

As pastors, we love to lean on the adage of “He doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called.”

I’m reminded of 1 Pet. 5:10 “After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.”

God’s calling is unique, but the one constant is we never know who and how he will call his servants. I had been praying that the Holy Spirit would call one or possibly two men to serve as deacons in our church. I had made the petition public and had spoken to several men about possibly becoming deacons.

One day during a church fellowship meal, a church member approached me with a private issue he wanted to discuss outside.  This is not uncommon for pastors, but the person wanting to speak with me in private is unique.  Barry Asenap is not your typical 51-year-old.  He has been living with Down Syndrome. Although he is 51, you would mistake his appearance to be much younger.




Despite his outward disability, Barry is an absolute mainstay in our congregation.

Murderous Intent Towards Down Syndrome Children

Mothers Reveal Huge Pressure 

"Abort Babies With Down's Syndrome!"

The Christian Institute
England & Wales

Mothers who refuse to abort their children with Down’s syndrome are pressured by medics to change their decision, a report has revealed.

One mum whose child is now five-years-old told how even at 38 weeks pregnant she was being offered an abortion.  Another mother said medical professionals told her they could leave her baby to die if it was struggling after birth.

The report, from Positive About Down Syndrome (PADS), revealed that 69 per cent of women were offered an abortion after they were told their baby had Down’s syndrome.  There is very limited support and an overriding assumption to terminate.   Even after informing medical professionals that they wished to keep their child, 46 per cent of mothers were asked if they wanted to change their decision.

Nicola Enoch, founder of PADS, said: “Women are making life or death decisions influenced by outdated and prejudicial views by many medical professionals.

Murder Is What It Really Is

 ‘Learning Disabilities’ Given as Reason Not To Resuscitate 19 Patients

The Christian Institute

United Kingdom

The Sunday Times has revealed that 19 hospital patients who later died were given Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders because they had learning disabilities or Down’s syndrome.  A leaked report from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme recommended that doctors should never issue a DNR order on such grounds.

The newspaper suggested the number of DNRs given to those with learning disabilities could be much higher, as only a quarter of reviews into the 4,302 deaths reported between July 2016 and December 2018 had been completed by the end of last year.

Falling short

The review analysed data to examine how care for those with disabilities could be improved.

Researchers found that eight per cent of adults with learning disabilities who had died had been given “care that fell so short of good practice that it significantly impacted on their wellbeing or directly contributed to their cause of death”.

The average age of death for people with learning disabilities was 60 for men and 59 for women.  This compares to the average life expectancy of 79 for men and 83 for women.

Protecting the Defenseless

Down’s Syndrome people ‘Endangered’

The Christian Institute



A Canadian charity is bidding to have people with Down’s syndrome recognised as an endangered species.  The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) has launched a campaign to highlight that the Down’s syndrome community qualifies as ‘endangered’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s criteria.

In Iceland, almost all unborn babies with Down’s syndrome are aborted. The figure is 92 per cent in the UK, and in Canada it is close to 90 per cent.

Selective Abortion An Extreme Moral Depravity

Kids with Down Syndrome are Not a Burden

David Marcus
The Federalist

Down Syndrome is disappearing in Europe. In Iceland, it is almost extinct. Very quietly, the most successful eugenics program in human history is advancing and making its way to the United Sates. How is this happening? It’s very simple. Prenatal testing is identifying pregnancies that are likely to result in Down Syndrome kids, and those pregnancies are being aborted, with shocking frequency.

On its own the abortion issue divides us. Whether a baby in the womb may be killed is a debate we struggle to have in constructive ways. But generally the pro-choice movement assures us that abortion is used in cases where any child is unwanted. In the case of selective abortion for sex or disability, a child is wanted, just not the messed-up child his parents weren’t hoping for.

What an age to live in. Get pregnant; see if the baby meets your specifications. If not, just abort and try again. Eventually you are sure to wind up with the bright boy exactly six feet tall who wins all the prizes and marries the prom queen. After all, having a child isn’t really about the child. It’s about you and your hopes and dreams, your demand to live your best life.

Did You Deserve To Be Born?

The choice to have a child, whether the result of grave deliberation or a drunken night of debauchery, is the most harrowing choice a person can make. The hospital hands you this useless bundle of cuteness and says, “Okay, good luck, you’ll figure it out.” Miraculously, for the most part people do figure it out. And there are rewards. The smiles, the snuggling, the little boy or girl climbing into your bed just to be near you because you are everything — it’s profound and beautiful.

No decent parent rejects a child’s love because the child is imperfect. Nobody casts aside an eight-year-old because she has bad grades or an attitude problem.

Letter From America (About Down Syndrome)

People With Down Syndrome Deserve Our Love, Not Genocide

Killing those with Down syndrome serves no rational purpose. It is a policy born of ignorance and fear. Worse, what it communicates to those so affected is simply unimaginable.

Jonathan Lange
The Federalist

Ann Turner Cook recently celebrated her 91st birthday. You may not recognize her name, but you surely know her face. She is the iconic baby sketched in charcoal who has graced Gerber baby-food jars since 1928. 

Gerber recently initiated an annual photo contest to name a national “Spokesbaby of the year.” This year more than 140,000 pictures were submitted, and on February 7 Gerber announced the winner, Lucas Warren.

Son of Courtney and Jason Warren of Dalton, Georgia, Lucas has an infectious smile and an endearing personality. The photo that made him famous caught him in mid-giggle sitting in an overstuffed chair with white pants and aqua shirt, bare feet, and black polka-dot bowtie to complete the ensemble.

The name “Lucas” means “light.” He is certainly that. Courtney said, “We hope this opportunity sheds light on the special needs community and educates people that with acceptance and support, individuals with special needs have the potential to change the world — just like our Lucas!”

His Genes Make Lucas Special

Part of what makes Lucas so adorable is genetic.

A Tale of Two Cities

Degenerate Perversity Versus Righteousness

Some countries boast that they have reached a point such human advancement that there are no longer any Down Syndrome children alive in their nation.  Iceland leads the way in this infamy.  Downs is not a disease that one catches in the wind.  It is a malfunction in the genetic code.  These "progressive" countries are actually killing Down Syndrome human beings in the womb.  They are aborting them.  They boast of the "medical breakthrough" which has enabled the removal of the "disease".  

If a nation were to boast of its success in removing syphilis from the country, and the means used to achieve this great milestone were to round up all people up with that disease and execute them, we would  not only be aghast.  We would make them the moral equivalent of Belsen.  Thus goes Iceland and those countries seeking to match its depravity. 

Gerber, the baby food company, has taken a very different tack.  It runs an annual "baby competition" for a child to be its signature baby for a year.  For the first time it has chosen a Down Syndrome baby at the 2018 Gerber baby.  Way to go!  High fives.

Protecting The Lives of Down Syndrome Children

Significant Steps

The state of Ohio has become the third US state to prohibit abortion for unborn children afflicted with Down Syndrome.  In the grand scheme of things this may seem a small accomplishment.  But when human life is at stake, there are no such things as small achievements.  

Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed the “Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act” into law Friday, outlawing selective abortions performed on babies diagnosed with Trisomy 21, or Down syndrome.  The act, also known as House Bill 214, amends Ohio law to “prohibit a person from performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion because an unborn child has or may have Down Syndrome.”

“While every unborn child deserves protection from abortion death, House Bill 214 is helpful in protecting those targeted for destruction due to cultural bigotry against babies identified before birth as ‘abnormal’ or ‘imperfect’ due to a Down Syndrome prediction,” noted Cincinnati Right to Life.  The bill, which passed the state Senate 20-12 this month, targets only doctors who perform abortions chosen because the unborn child is expected to have Down syndrome. Women seeking an abortion are not subject to penalties under the new law.

The abortionist in such a case could face a fourth-degree felony charge and could lose his or her license.  “Now that the Down syndrome Non-Discrimination Act is law, unborn babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome are given a shot at life,” said Mike Gonidakis, the president of Ohio Right to Life. “Ohio is and will continue to be a state that sees the lives of people with Down syndrome as lives worth living, thanks to this legislation.”

There are two other US states which have prohibited abortion for Down syndrome infants: North Dakota (2013) and Indiana (2016).   In the case of Indiana, however, a federal court judge suspended the application of state law.

"Rubbish Dump" Rescue Mission

Good News

Ohio bill preventing women from aborting babies with Down syndrome on its way to governor’s desk

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze

Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich has 10 days to sign House Bill 214, which would prevent women from knowingly aborting babies with Down syndrome, before it’s automatically vetoed.  The bill passed the Ohio state Senate on Wednesday with a vote of 20-12. It passed the House in November.

Kasich in November said that a bill of this type would be “appropriate,” and his press secretary, Jon Keeling, said that the governor would “take a good hard look at the bill.”  The bill prohibits abortionists from conducting abortions after a diagnosis of fetal Down syndrome has been made.

The physician or abortionist performing the abortion could face a fourth-degree felony charge if convicted. In addition to serving upward of 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine, a medical professional could also be subject to losing his or her license to practice.

The mother of the unborn child would not be punished, according to the bill.

Diabolism Of The UN

UN "Human Rights" In Action

Commissioner Urges Abortion for Down Syndrome Babies

Thomas Williams
Breitbart London

A member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee has defended the use of abortion to eliminate babies with Down syndrome and other disabilities as a “preventive measure” to “avoid the handicap.”

In a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Committee this month, Mr. Yadh Ben Achour, a Tunisian lawyer and committee member, argued that one can be an advocate for handicapped people while still encouraging abortion in the case of fetuses with permanent disabilities.  Captured on videotape, the commissioner defended the inviolable right of women to an abortion, especially when her child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome or another disability.

Mr. Ben Achour said in French:

If you tell a woman, “Your child has Dow…” — what is it called? Down syndrome, Dawn syndrome — if you tell her that, or that he may have a handicap forever, for the rest of his life, you should make this woman… it should be possible for her to resort to abortion to avoid the handicap as a preventive measure:

While describing himself as “an ardent defender of the handicapped,” Ben Achour insisted that the State must do everything possible to protect the handicapped “and ensure they have a life, a possible living.”

“But that does not mean that we have to accept to let a disabled fetus live,” he said. “This is a preventive measure.”

Advocating the abortion of handicapped children “doesn’t mean that we are against the disabled or that we won’t help the disabled when born disabled,” Ben Achour said.  The commissioner went on to contend that the key difference lies in catching the disability before the child is born so that it can be aborted because afterward society is obliged to defend the child’s right to live—even if the child has a genetic anomaly.

“So this is where we will find the difference between the birth of the human being. Once he is born, it is finished; with a handicap or without a handicap, he must live and we must protect absolutely, in an absolute manner, his right to life,” he said.  “So us, we defend the right of the handicapped, but, but we can avoid the handicaps, and we must do everything we can to avoid them,” he added. “And it is not contradictory.”

In response to Mr. Ben Achour’s speech, a young woman with Down syndrome made her own YouTube video in response, suggesting that the commissioner apologize for his “horrible comments.”


“I’m a human being just like you,” said the woman, identified only as Charlotte. “Our only difference is an extra chromosome.”

“My extra chromosome makes me far more tolerant than you, sir,” she said. “If any other heritable traits, like skin color, were used to eradicate a group of people, the world would cry out. Why are you not crying out when people like me are being made extinct? What have we done to make you want us to disappear?”

“As far as I know, my community doesn’t hate, discriminate, or commit crimes,” Charlotte said. “What you are suggesting is eugenics. It’s disgusting and evil.”

“You need to apologize for your horrible comments,” the woman continued. “You should also be removed from the Human Rights Committee as an expert. You are not an expert about Down syndrome. You, sir, do not speak for my community.”

“I will fight for our right to exist for the rest of my life,” she said.

Another Step in the Long March

Down Syndrome May No Longer Be a Death Sentence

Ohio Senate passes bill banning abortion after a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis

Kate Scanlon
The Blaze

Ohio may soon ban abortions after a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.

What happened?

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Ohio Senate passed the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act, legislation that would make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion based solely on a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.  The bill was approved Wednesday in a 20-12 vote. Three Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the bill.

The state’s House passed its own version of the bill earlier this month, indicating that the bill will eventually make it to the desk of Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio). Kasich has signed other pro-life legislation as governor.


What do supporters say?

Supporters of the legislation cite high Down syndrome termination rates and say that the bill would protect children with the condition.

Self-Centric "Advice" From Medical Know-It-Alls

Mothers of Down Syndrome Children Encouraged to Terminate

Ruby Nyika
Stuff

The mother of an unborn child with Down Syndrome says she was advised by medical professionals to terminate the pregnancy.  Antenatal screening meant Masterton mother of two Danielle Bolt knew her unborn daughter Noa would have Down Syndrome, but she did not hesitate in giving birth to her now 21-month-old.

Bolt was angry with the advice she was given and said doctors and nurses should change their approach.



Noa, who is 21 months old, with her father Joshua Matthews and mother Danielle Bolt.

"I was told to terminate by the specialist," Bolt said. "They literally said to me Noa will become a burden on society and she's not worth it.  It's so cruel because they don't know her potential."

Bolt, who went for Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) at Wellington Hospital, said she was called by staff, who apologised and told her that her daughter would have Down Syndrome.   Bolt was upset they felt the need to apologise about an otherwise healthy baby girl.

Letter From the UK (About French Bubbles)

Constituency Protection

Smiling Down Syndrome Kids Banned from French TV in Case they Offend Post-Abortive Women

Thomas Williams

Breitbart London

France’s Conseil d’État (State Council) has confirmed its ban of the award-winning “Dear Future Mom” video from French television, declaring that the “inappropriate” images of happy Down syndrome children might bother women who had chosen to abort their babies.

The Council stated that the video in question could not be shown since it was “likely to trouble the conscience of women who had made different personal life choices in compliance with the law.”

According to studies, in France more than 80 per cent of all mothers pregnant with babies diagnosed with Down syndrome end up aborting their children.

“The law stipulates that only advertising messages or ‘messages of general interest’ be shown during commercial breaks. The Council determined that this film does not constitute a ‘message of general interest’,” the governing body said in a statement on its website.

Rather, it is “likely to disturb women who have had recourse to a medical termination of pregnancy and thus is inappropriate for airing during commercial breaks,” the statement added.

The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, a pioneer in scientific research on Down syndrome and one of the financiers of the production, had filed a petition requesting that the ban be lifted.

Faith, Hope, and Love

And the Greatest of These Is . . . 

Surprises on the "upside" are always welcome.  So, it came to pass, when we read the following piece in the NZ Herald.  It was written in defence of human life and the protection of the most vulnerable of all:

Diagnosed with Down Syndrome before she was born, a US woman's doctor recommended she abort her unborn child.  But Courtney Baker and her husband, despite being told their quality of life would suffer, decided to proceed with the pregnancy and gave birth to little Emersyn Faith, known fondly as Emmy, 15 months ago.

Last month Courtney wrote a letter to the doctor and together with Emmy, mailed to to him.  This is their letter:


Courtney Baker and her daughter, who was born with Down syndrome, Emmy. Photo / 

"Dear Doctor,

A friend recently told me of when her prenatal specialist would see her child during her sonograms, he would comment, 'He's perfect.' Once her son was born with Down syndrome, she visited that same doctor. He looked at her little boy and said, 'I told you.  He's perfect.'  Her story tore me apart. While I was so grateful for my friend's experience, it filled me with such sorrow because of what I should have had. I wish you would have been that doctor.

Letter From the Netherlands (About Aborting Down Syndrome Children)

Down Syndrome Screening Could Eliminate an Entire Group of People

Renate Lindeman

[This article was first published in the Netherlands.  Then it was republished in the Washington Post, and we picked it up in a NZ newspaper.   Ed.]

Upon delivering my first child 11 years ago, I heard the words "Down syndrome", and my world collapsed. Visions of children sitting passively in a corner watching life go by, not participating, kept me awake those first nights as a mum.  It didn't take me long, though, to figure out that my ideas were based on negative, outdated information that had nothing to do with the reality of life with Down syndrome today.

My daughter April is an active, outgoing girl. She's my nature child, wildly passionate about anything with four legs. Although April uses few words, she's a master communicator. Through her, I've learned that Down syndrome is not the scary, terrible condition it's made out to be.  But while governments (rightly) ban gender selection, selective abortion continues to be encouraged for children with Down syndrome. In the United States and abroad, screenings are a routine part of healthcare programmes, and the result is the near-elimination of these children.

When pregnant with my daughter Hazel, tests showed she, too, would be born with Down syndrome. I was shocked when an acquaintance asked me why I did not choose abortion – as if she were a mistake that could be easily erased.

The Great Divide

Two Parents, Radically Unalike

The word misanthrope used to refer to someone who hated the human race.  Under the delicate touch of feminist ideology the term has morphed into a sexist perspective, referring to someone who hates males.  Dana at Patterico describes the case of one who is truly--and literally--misanthropic.

The answer to the question “What makes a good man?” depends on who you are asking. For one ardent feminist named Lana, her answer would unarguably be that to suggest a man could be good is itself a contradiction in terms and thus, the question is moot. Never the terms shall meet. Because of her misandry, Lana refused to allow her baby boy entry into the world where he would have had the opportunity to prove his mother wrong:

Moral Bankruptcy of Utilitarian Calculus

Thank you, Professor Dawkins!

Christian Medical Fellowship
August 26, 2014  
Written by Rick Thomas

Who said nothing ever happens in August! Just as we were looking forward to a quiet bank holiday weekend, up pops Prof Dawkins with a disturbing tweet. Responding to another Twitter posting by a woman admitting she would face a ‘“real ethical dilemma”’ if she became pregnant and found she was carrying a baby with Down’s syndrome, he suggested she should simply abort and try again, and that it would be ‘“immoral”’ to bring into the world a child with Down’s syndrome if you had the choice. He attempted to justify himself further here.

So, there we have it. Knowingly giving life to a child with Down’s syndrome is immoral, terminating its life is commendable. On what grounds would an intelligent person say such a thing, you might ask?
To prevent the child’s suffering – the compassion argument?

Truth is, people with Down’s syndrome don’t ‘suffer’ from their condition, they live with it. And in general the lives they live are more joyous than most.

So might it be the struggles faced by the parents that the professor has in mind?

Sickening Selective Abortion

Why Are We Killing Children With Down Syndrome?

Posted on July 2, 2014 

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D.

Turtle Bay and Beyond

A new paper from Mark Bradford, president of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation USA, one of the world’s leading organizations that help children with down syndrome and their families, details how children with Down syndrome are being exterminated, and what policies could help end this inhumane form of violence and discrimination. You can read the paper published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute here.

In the United States, approximately 6,000 individuals are born each year with Down syndrome (trisomy 21). The live birth incidence is about one in 700.[i] Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability, with the U.S. population estimated to be between 250,000 and 400,000 people, and the worldwide population at six million.

Down syndrome is a highly complex genetic medical condition; it is also a highly complex sociological phenomenon that is iconic in its significance to questions regarding quality of life, selective abortion, and the extent and legitimacy of research into medical treatment to enhance cognition in the intellectually disabled. Iconic, because Down syndrome provides the initial test of how society responds to difference and disability when offered increasingly sophisticated means of prenatal screening technologies in a pro-abortion culture.