Wed Mar 2, 2022 – 4:55 pm EST
CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – The West Virginia Senate is slated to consider legislation that would prohibit abortions that specifically target children with disabilities for extermination.
SB 468, the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act, forbids abortions in which the abortionist has not “first confirmed that the abortion is not being sought because of a disability,” including Down syndrome or any other “presence or presumed presence of a genetic, physical, emotional, or intellectual disability or diagnosis in the unborn human being including, but not limited to, chromosomal disorders or morphological malformations occurring as the result of atypical gene expressions.”
The law does not apply in cases of a medical emergency, which is defined as “serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function, not including psychological or emotional conditions,” or for “severe fetal condition[s]” that are supposedly “incompatible with life outside the womb.” Under the bill, babies with disabilities could still be aborted – their mothers would just have to say they wanted to abort them for different reasons (or not name a reason).
The Associated Press reports that SB 468
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