Kate Cox, the Texas woman who sued the state to abort her child diagnosed with Trisomy 18, has been invited to the State of the Union speech, signaling the president’s intention to promote the abortion of babies who receive a prenatal diagnosis. At issue is Texas law, which permits physicians to make medical interventions to save the life or bodily function of a woman, even if these result in the unfortunate loss of her unborn child. Children’s prenatal conditions rarely pose a unique risk to the mother’s health, and Texas law does not permit the intentional ending of an unborn child’s life when the pregnancy does not threaten the mother’s health.
Parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis are frequently told their child’s condition is hopeless and treatment futile. Words such as lethal, fatal, and “incompatible
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