Category: down syndrome

BBC Highlights the Faulty Prenatal Diagnosis Tragedy: Aborting ANY Child for Health Reasons Undermines Their Value
Mia Akins | February 14, 2025
Every expectant parent hopes their baby grows healthy. At prenatal appointments or while waiting for lab results, parents often anxiously await news about their child’s development. Modern medicine offers an increasing number of prenatal tests. In some cases, these tests can be beneficial: early detection of a condition allows parents to develop a treatment plan or even begin treatment

Almost Aborted: Cara and Mia’s Story
Jordan Butler | July 2, 2024
Mia’s Down syndrome diagnosis wasn’t a death sentence. It’s only one part of her, as Mia boldly tells people, and it’s just the beginning of an incredible life. As part of Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) six-figure national messaging campaign, ALMOST ABORTED, Cara shares her story about choosing life for her daughter, Mia, and proving that people with Down

ALMOST ABORTED Launches in New York Times Square
Jordan Butler | June 10, 2024
Abortion-loving Democrats want you to believe abortion is necessary, and they’re willing to spend millions of dollars to prove it. $200 million, actually. This summer, Students for Life of America (SFLA) is punching back with an offensive and national messaging campaign, ALMOST ABORTED, against the abortion industry’s $200 million advertising campaign. SFLA’s six-figure campaign, including billboards and digital ads, targets

Life Shouldn’t Be Determined by a Faulty Test: Early Prenatal Tests on the Rise to Determine Abortion
Jordan Butler | February 15, 2024
A recent TIME article discusses how more women, not “pregnant people,” are doing early prenatal testing for Down syndrome, Trisomy 13 and 18 as abortion restrictions tighten. After all, the “clock is ticking,” according to TIME authors Laura Ungar and Amanda Seitz. States like North Carolina limit abortion after 12 weeks, Utah after 18 weeks, and Arizona at 15

This Victoria’s Secret Model Is Reminding Us That All Lives Are Beautiful
Caroline Wharton | August 16, 2022
In a world which promotes aborting children with fetal abnormalities and devalues those with disabilities, it is a beautiful thing to see those same children who were given life grow and succeed — and that is the story of Sofía Jirau, the first Victoria’s Secret model with Down Syndrome. The 25-year-old woman made history this year by becoming the first

The Pro-Life Response to The IVF Dilemma
Brenna Lewis | April 21, 2022
In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is basically the family planning of the future for couples who can’t have biological children. It involves the removal of egg and sperm cells from two parents, and the combination of those cells in a controlled lab environment. The technology is fascinating, and has been life-changing for many families. But that doesn’t mean the process is perfect. There

Faulty Prenatal Testing Ignites Fire of Indignation
Caroline Wharton | January 10, 2022
A New York Times report has finally connected the dots and ignited a fire of righteous anger for the many pregnant women who have been subjected to needless worry after incorrect prenatal testing. Many of us can name several women in our lives who have experienced erroneous prenatal diagnoses—and then been advised to abort based upon that diagnosis. However, this New York Times analysis

Abortion Supporters’ Insane Responses to Texas Abortion Law
Brenna Lewis | September 8, 2021
When the Heartbeat Act in Texas powered through legal challenges and the abortion lobby’s attempts to otherwise stop it, abortion supporters lost their minds. The law, which went into effect on September 1st, bans the abortion of babies with heartbeats in the state of Texas and empowers private citizens to report transgressions of that law. The response on social

Over 80 Congressmen Declare: Discriminatory Abortion is WRONG
Brenna Lewis | May 14, 2021
Aborting children due to a Down Syndrome (confirmed or suspected) diagnosis is completely legal in the United States. And over 80 members of Congress just told the Supreme Court that they believe this is wrong. In 2019, Arkansas attempted to pass a law banning this lethal act of discrimination and ableism, only to be blocked in court. Stomping the

North Dakota Judges Forced to Allow Down Syndrome Abortions Even Though They’re “Eugenic”
Brenna Lewis | January 20, 2021
Something unusual happened recently in a courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota. Two federal appeals judges, Ralph Erickson and Bobby Shepherd, were reviewing an Arkansas bill that would make it illegal to target babies with Down Syndrome for abortion. They wanted the bill to be allowed. But a 1992 judicial precedent forced them to deem it unconstitutional. So what did