American Influencers who terminated for T21.

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Has everyone else seen all the hatred online for the social media influencers who have decided to terminate a pregnancy due to a diagnosis of T21?

I have no idea who the couple are but today my social media feed is full of really abhorrent articles, videos and posts aimed at them (and about termination in general) and I’m just horrified.

Unsurprisingly they are in America, but even so.

I’m assuming the couple have been streaming videos about the pregnancy since the start and this announcement seems to have sparked absolute outrage.

Ok, the Influencers must have realised that some people would be upset by their decision, but at the same time, those same people must understand that although couples choose to have terminations based on medical conditions it’s still usually a very difficult and upsetting decision for them to make.

Has anyone else seen it?
I’m deleting as much of it as I can from my timeline but it’s constant.
They are even getting death threats.

It’s like a witch-hunt, it’s disgusting 😢

No one opts for an abortion at that point unless it is incompatible with life.

That sounds as though they may have just had the first " risk" screening test but not an actual amino. My DD was given a 1 in 7 chance of downs from nuchal fold test but the amino actually ruled that out

Good for you? Many do have abortions for that type of sickness. I don't blame them. Also sounds like a medical reason to me.

It’s likely due to the big pull from certain advocacy groups not to allow late terminations for DS, I know Sally Phillips has been particularly vocal in this remit. I watched her docu a few years ago and understood her points but I feel it’s always unfair to insist everyone else makes the same life choices as you because yours were definitely right.

Raising a child with any disability is far more difficult than an able bodied NT child, irrespective of how amazing the disabled child is. Terminating at such a late stage must be utterly harrowing, nobody is opting to do that for the hell of it.

Down syndrome isn’t incompatible with life unless there’s additional reasons, this couple still chose termination quite late.

Seriously though calling a developing baby a ‘leech’? Thats pretty horrible IMO

Well technically it is a parasite hence why the woman's immune system is suppressed. Why does it matter how she describes it?

What happened to a woman having the right to choose what she wants to do with her body?

I will.choose the same action should it happen as we are trying for another.

What a horrible person you are with that last comment

It’s not just her body though, it’s the baby’s body too. Nobody is forcing women to become pregnant unless they are raped but that is a very small minority. Therefore they ‘chose’ what to do with their body, and this is an unlikely but still not impossible consequence.

As early as possible, as late as necessary.
Wishing autism on a child is vile.

Why? If they can’t cope with Down Syndrome then they definitely won’t cope with a child with non verbal autism. I’m pointing out they relied on the scan being perfect but that doesn’t always show the disability.

That’s SM, though. Everything has to be 100mph and hotter than the sun.

They also say things simply to be an arsehole.

Define as late as necessary please? Would you support "abortion" at 39 weeks?,

Oh, I did. It's plain.

But there no need to continue with a pregnancy if you know about problems before birth

No, your comprehension skills are severely lacking. I said I hope their next child doesn’t appear perfect on the scan but then goes on to have autism or similar, as they wouldn’t cope.

You’ve read it as ‘I hope their child isn’t scan perfect, but has autism’ which is entirely different.

But why would you wish it on them?

I didn’t, FFS.

Everyone else knew what I meant but you’ve whipped yourself into such a frenzy you’ve misinterpreted what I put completely.

Ok. Got it. I apologise, but you really have framed that strangely.

Thank you

Whipped myself into a frenzy?? What the fuck?? Where the hell are you getting that from

If that's not what you said then it's very poor writing as it certainly comes across that way

I think they’re both a couple of arseholes. Being ‘Influencers’ is the most vapid, shallow, load of bollocks.
And i know money is always the motive behind it.

They knew full well the response they would get.
There’s no more divisive subject in America than abortion.
They knew, and must be thriving on all the attention: good, bad, and vitriolic.

A proper pair of cunts.