{"id":578761,"date":"2021-07-01T12:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578761"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T16:36:05","slug":"opinion-abortions-due-to-disabilities-and-illness-are-heartbreaking-and-should-not-be-normalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-abortions-due-to-disabilities-and-illness-are-heartbreaking-and-should-not-be-normalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Abortions Due To Disabilities And Illness Are Heartbreaking And Should Not Be Normalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-abortions-due-to-disabilities-and-illness-are-heartbreaking-and-should-not-be-normalized%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578761&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BAA2A206-6E6E-4EFC-B534-A0040F87FEF7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Americans are still split on the topic of abortion, a new poll revealed, showing that for many people, choosing a side on the contentious issue is not easy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The more telling part of the polling, however, revealed the feelings of people who believe abortion should be legal in cases where the child could be born with a life-threatening illness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to an AP-NORC <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/public-holds-nuanced-views-about-access-to-legal-abortion\/\"><span class=\"s1\">poll<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span>&nbsp;61% of Americans felt that abortion should be legal in most or all cases during the first trimester of pregnancy, but that number went down to 34% in the second trimester and 19% in the third trimester.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Late-term abortions, however, often occur when expecting parents are told that their child might be born with birth defects or difficult health circumstances. The poll narrowly addressed this topic, as well. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If the \u201cchild would be born with a life-threatening illness,\u201d 74% of adults said that a woman should be able to get a legal abortion. When asked the same question, 86% of Democrats agreed, 72% of Independents agreed, and 63% of Republicans agreed.&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The poll also divided respondents along religious beliefs and 93% of non-religious people said they agreed that a woman should be able to get an abortion if the child would be born with a life-threatening illness, while 80% of people who practice religions other than \u201c[b]orn-again or evangelical\u201d Christianity agreed. At a lower, but still somewhat surprisingly high percentage, 52% of born-again or evangelical Christians agreed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When it comes to abortion, it is not a simple topic, and the question in the poll notably centered on access to a legal procedure \u2014 rather than the morality of it. The problem with the particular question surrounding life-threatening illness, however, is that it does not define what a \u201clife-threatening illness\u201d is, or what the determination would be to figure out what would constitute an illness where certain death would be a better alternative for a child.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fostering a sense of normalcy around late-term abortions due to disability enhances the stigma that disabled persons and their families live with on a daily basis, not to mention ignores the situations when doctors are wrong about a diagnosis and a mother who was encouraged to abort her baby gives birth to a perfectly healthy child.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> It also reinforces the notion that some lives are worth living <\/span>\u2014 while others are not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/19\/opinion\/sunday\/late-term-abortion.html\"><span class=\"s1\">opinion<\/span><\/a> piece in The New York Times, a woman wrote about the late-term abortion that she underwent in order to protect \u201cher child from a life of pain and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The writer, Lyndsay Werking-Yip, detailed the heartbreaking decision she and her husband made to end her child\u2019s life at 23 weeks and six days of pregnancy following a diagnosis of a \u201cbroken brain\u201d that would potentially lead to many complications.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/02\/opinion\/letters\/abortion-late-term.html\"><span class=\"s1\">letters<\/span><\/a> to the editor printed about the publication are almost more telling than the piece itself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One woman thanked Werking-Yip for her piece, saying that most people don\u2019t discuss the pain that is associated with an abortion. The woman added that it was the right choice for her to abort her child, as well, but added that she kept the remains of her daughter, whom she named Marcella, in an urn inside her closet. Her daughter had been diagnosed with Triple X syndrome, a genetic disorder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In her letter to the editor, the woman wrote, \u201cIn the comments online, many people questioned why you would say you killed your baby. Though they are well intentioned, they have no clue. I definitely killed my baby. It was the saddest, most horrific act I\u2019ve ever done. I hope I am never faced with such a choice again. But it was my choice. And it was the right choice for our family at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This response details the heartbreaking situation of abortion and the parents who are often left behind in the pro-choice culture that pretends abortion is not a sad thing. It is always a complicated choice, but it is made more heartbreaking and more complicated when the option for abortion is presented as best for the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In her original opinion piece, Werking-Yip explained that she considered herself pro-life, but she identified with both terms \u201cpro-life\u201d and \u201cpro-choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>If you identify as \u201cpro-life,\u201d what does that phrase mean to you? I know that in advocacy circles, it means, essentially, \u201canti-abortion.\u201d But what does life mean to you \u2014 the life that you are \u201cfor\u201d? Does it mean breathing on your own? Does it mean having a heartbeat? What are the markers of a life of quality, of purpose, of meaning? If your brain was not functioning following a traumatic car accident, would you want your body artificially sustained indefinitely? What is the threshold of experience for you to want to continue living? I\u2019m asking honestly.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Werking-Yip continued, \u201cIf it\u2019s hard to imagine answering these questions for yourself, can you imagine being asked to answer them for someone else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The answer to her question is clear: no, of course not. It\u2019s a terrifying prospect to think of being required to make such a decision. It\u2019s horrific to think of being given the task of deciding if a child should live a life of potential suffering or be allegedly spared from pain through a premature death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Perhaps it is such a difficult decision, an unnatural and heartbreaking one, because it is not ours to make at all.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are still split on the topic of abortion, a new poll revealed, showing that for many people, choosing a side on the contentious issue is not easy.\u00a0 The more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313847,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BAA2A206-6E6E-4EFC-B534-A0040F87FEF7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Opinion: Abortions Due To Disabilities And Illness Are Heartbreaking And Should Not Be Normalized","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BAA2A206-6E6E-4EFC-B534-A0040F87FEF7_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Opinion: Abortions Due To Disabilities And Illness Are Heartbreaking And Should Not Be Normalized","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}