A new prenatal test for Down Syndrome is being touted in the media. The Washington Post reports this story. "This is huge," said Catherine Y. Spong of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Spong's agency is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and provided $15 million to fund the study over eight years. The study was done by the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, where abortion is illegal. Speaking for the Royal College, Fergal Malone said: "This is a big deal for women. It's going to have a big impact on care for women, not just in the United States but throughout the world...Women who would opt to terminate a pregnancy based on the results would be able to do so much earlier, when abortion is less risky and less traumatic."
The new test brought a quick response from Gene Rudd of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations: "What's the goal here? Is it to rid our society of Down babies? It that is the goal, I really have to question the civility of that. The overwhelming number of people with Down will tell you their life is good." So will their parents, their siblings, and all those who love them. The Post goes on to report that "women who test negative will be able to ease their minds much earlier." Here we see once again the constant pro-abortion bias of the major media. Your tax dollars are, in effect, promoting abortion at a foreign research center. Surely, this is not the way to build a culture of life.
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