The ‘Love Is Blind’ Abortion Debate Exposes Everything Wrong With Baby-Killing Ideology

In Texas, it’s illegal to abort your baby after six weeks of pregnancy and it could soon be illegal to end an unborn child’s life based on a predetermined genetic diagnosis such as Down syndrome. That, however, didn’t stop two soon-to-be-married Texans, contestants on Netflix’s hit reality dating show “Love Is Blind,” from debating whether they would abort their baby if he or she had unwanted physical or mental qualities.

“Love Is Blind” encourages single young adults to blindly communicate with each other in “pods” separated by a blurred screen. If any singles should choose to become couples, they must get engaged before ever seeing each other face to face. After they put a ring on it, they are thrown into a trial run of life together to work out any differences before their big day, which is just mere weeks later. In that phase, they decide to say “I do” or break it off completely.

Much like previous seasons, this third season yielded much drama but none like the debate between Nancy Rodriguez, a 32-year-old landlord and speech-language pathologist, and her fiancé Bartise Bowden, a 27-year-old accountant with a passion for fitness.

Shortly after the couple became engaged and moved in with each other, Nancy expressed worry that the longer she waits to have children, the higher risk those kids would be at for having birth defects.

“What would you do if you did find out that your child had a birth defect and you could abort the pregnancy? Do you want to keep the baby?” Nancy asked.

“Keep the baby,” Bartise responded confidently. “What the f-ck. I could not. F-ck no. They could be boy, girl. They could be transgender. They could do whatever. I just want to love that kid no matter what. Three legs, whatever it comes out is like going to be my — our — kid.”

Nancy, a speech-language pathologist, tried to justify her belief in selective breeding, which is effectively outlawed under Texas’s six-week abortion ban, by claiming “I’ve seen so much in my field.”

“It was so emotionally draining and so sad that I would cry almost every day. A lot of times even just with Down syndrome, there are so many complications, medical and also learning complications,” she said. “I see the amount of trauma that it does to, like, the family. For me, if I knew that I could try again and hope that the second time it’s better, then I would go that route.”

“I would never, I could never do that,” Bartise responded. “Especially knowing that we were trying to have a kid, just abort mission because they’re gonna have some challenges and we’re gonna have some challenges. I am mentally tough enough to handle whatever challenge that may present. And I just couldn’t ever pull the plug like that. Yeah, that’s f-cking rough. I could not do that. I’m sorry.”

For the crime of not wanting to abort a child that doesn’t come out looking or acting

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