BREITBART
More than half of Democrats support or strongly support eugenics-style abortions of babies with Down syndrome, a recent poll found.
Democrats are at odds with overall poll respondents, 58 percent of whom disagree with aborting babies because they will be born with Down syndrome. Thirty-nine percent of overall respondents say they agree with aborting babies with Down syndrome.
The finding is part of a Knights of Columbus-Marist poll on abortion released before the 2024 March for Life, conducted with 1,371 adults between January 8-9, 2024, with results statistically significant within ±3.6 percentage points. That poll also found that a strong majority of Americans support abortion limits and pregnancy resource centers.
Democrat support of aborting babies with Down syndrome harkens to the eugenics movement in Denmark. In 2004, Denmark became one of the first countries to offer prenatal Down syndrome screening to every pregnant woman.
“Nearly all expecting mothers choose to take the test; of those who get a Down syndrome diagnosis, more than 95 percent choose to abort,” The Atlantic reported in 2020. “…Since universal screening was introduced, the number of children born with Down syndrome has fallen sharply. In 2019, only 18 were born in the entire country. (About 6,000 children with Down syndrome are born in the U.S. each year.)”
“Down syndrome is a genetic condition where a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome 21,” according to the Cleveland Clinic…
