{"id":22223,"date":"2020-07-22T11:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=22223"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:14:01","slug":"from-aesthetics-to-eugenics-when-cleft-lip-is-a-valid-reason-for-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/from-aesthetics-to-eugenics-when-cleft-lip-is-a-valid-reason-for-abortion","title":{"rendered":"From Aesthetics to Eugenics \u2013 When a Cleft Lip is a Valid Reason for Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the referendum in May 2019, the aim of which was to remove the 8th<\/sup>amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which protected the right to life from conception, the next item on the liberal agenda of death was Northern Ireland. Though part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland is a distinct legal jurisdiction, which is why the British 1967 Abortion Act did not apply there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking advantage of the political vacuum in Northern Ireland \u2013 the Northern Ireland Executive collapsed in 2017, and the deal on a new power sharing government was not reached \u2013 Westminster passed two acts (in 2018 and 2019) regulating certain ongoing issues in Northern Ireland. In addition to extending the deadline for the formation of the Executive, the 2019 Northern Ireland Act also imposed the legalization of same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d and further extreme liberalization of abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the new abortion regime in Northern Ireland labelled \u201cextreme\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from legalizing abortion on-demand up to 12 weeks, the new regime means that abortion in Northern Ireland is now practically allowed through the whole 9 months of pregnancy, not only for reasons such as the pregnant woman\u2019s physical or mental health, rape, incest, or fatal fetal deformity, but also in case of operable deformities (e.g., cleft lip and palate, club foot), and conditions compatible with life, such as Down syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This way, abortion on-demand has been\u00a0de facto<\/em> legalized through 24 weeks. Even sex-selective abortion is allowable up to 12 weeks without doubt, though in fact there are no provisions prohibiting fetal gendercide as far along as 24 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what this will look like in practice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pregnant woman<\/em>: Hello, I\u2019m 19 weeks along, but I\u2019ve realized that I\u2019m too stressed out over this baby, I think I\u2019ll lose my job [OR husband\/boyfriend is threatening to kick me out] [OR I don\u2019t think I can finish college] [OR I already have two children at home] [OR (fill in at will)].<\/p>

Doctor<\/em>: Right, let\u2019s make an appointment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, mental health grounds can be used as a cover for practically any <\/em>reason one can come up with, and they’ll be allowed to kill their baby in any week of pregnancy. Northern Ireland, a country that once protected human life from conception to natural death, and had one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world, now stands shoulder to shoulder with \u201cprogressive\u201d states where in one room medical professionals are aborting a baby at 25 weeks of gestation, while next door they are doing everything that modern medicine can do to save a preemie born in that same 25th<\/sup> week of pregnancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a single country in the world has solved the issues such as pregnant women losing their job, being kicked out by their husband, suffering psychological abuse (for what is the threat \u201cAbort it, or don\u2019t come home!\u201d if not emotional abuse?), living in poverty, etc<\/em>., by making abortion widely available. Abortion is not a solution to social problems.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abortion for a cleft lip and\/or palate, or a club foot, or Down\u2019s syndrome is applied eugenics, pure and outright: the elimination of those who are different, undesirable or \u201cless valuable\u201d from society. Abortion proponents justify this by claiming that we\u2019re actually doing these persons a favor, because it is better for them to be eliminated than to \u201csuffer\u201d or have a \u201clower quality of life.\u201d Let\u2019s take a look at this \u201clower quality of life\u201d of some persons born with these conditions, who slipped through the claws of eugenicists and made it into this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Gerrard<\/strong>, one of the finest midfielders of English football today, who captained both Liverpool and England, was born with a club foot. He appeared in 710 games and scored 186 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Gerrard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kristi Yamaguchi<\/strong>, US- and world-champion (as well as Olympic-winning) figure skater, was born with club feet and started ice skating at the age of 6 as part of the corrective treatment on her feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Kristi Yamaguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Peyton Manning<\/strong>, one of the finest quarterbacks of all time, was born with a cleft lip, but that didn\u2019t prevent him from playing in the NFL for 18 seasons, winning the Superbowl twice, and the annual MVP award (Most Valuable Player) five times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peyton Manning<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Also born with a cleft lip, later corrected, were British actor Tom Burke,<\/strong> and American actors Joaquin Phoenix<\/strong> (cleft lip and palate) and Cheech Marin<\/strong>, best known to the audience as the witty partner to detective Nash Bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tom Burke, Joaquin Phoenix and Cheech Marin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Heidi Crowter, a 24-year-old Coventry woman who was born with Down syndrome, has launched a campaign in the UK \u2013\u00a0Don\u2019t Screen Us Out<\/a>\u2013 in an attempt to show that screening tests target babies with a trisomy, such as Down\u2019s syndrome, and that 90% of screening tests with a positive result lead to those babies being aborted. Today, when everyone is standing up for human rights and equality, Heidi is showing us that persons such as herself, who were born slightly different, are so unwanted and discriminated against that they are not even allowed to be born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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