Larry O’Connor penned an opinion piece at The Washington Times. An excerpt of his latest article, WaPo Op/Ed: Keep abortion legal so Down Syndrome babies can be eliminated, is below:

Ruth Marcus is being praised as “courageous” today for penning a deeply personal opinion piece in the Washington Post where she reveals that she would have aborted her unborn child had her prenatal testing uncovered the likelihood that her child would be born with Down Syndrome.

I have had two children; I was old enough, when I became pregnant, that it made sense to do the testing for Down syndrome. Back then, it was amniocentesis, performed after 15 weeks; now, chorionic villus sampling can provide a conclusive determination as early as nine weeks. I can say without hesitation that, tragic as it would have felt and ghastly as a second-trimester abortion would have been, I would have terminated those pregnancies had the testing come back positive. I would have grieved the loss and moved on.

Marcus, WaPo’s deputy editorial page editor, lays out a clinical and sober analysis of current laws making their way through state houses and courts that would put restrictions on abortions for the sole purpose of exterminating a nascent life if it has a diagnosis like Down Syndrome.  [Read More]

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