Stop Telling Me I Should Have Killed My Daughter
“You should have killed your daughter.”
That’s the implicit charge I hear in the abortion debate from many of those who claim to be fighting for “women’s rights”.
Every time a new abortion story hits the news, I see members of the media or posts on social media that mention “genetic abnormalities,” “Down’s Syndrome,” “fetal abnormalities” or “incompatible with life” as valid reasons to go through with an abortion. Sometimes, these people go so far as to lament how some new law would “force” women to carry to term a child with any of the above and many ghoulishly complain that the new law would cause more of these children to live out in the world, where, depending on the person’s politics, they will “become a burden” to either their families or the state.
Normally, when I see these posts, there is some degree of distance between me and the person saying these things. The Texas heartbeat law changed that. Numerous friends on social media made posts shaming Texas for “causing more people with Down’s Syndrome to enter the gene pool.” Others made the typical complaint that mothers would now be “forced” to raise a disabled child.
