A columnist for the London Spectator wrote about his daughter who had down syndrome and argued against the abortion of handicapped babies. His column prompted this letter to the Spectator’ s editor:
“I have severe spina bifida and am a full-time wheelchair user. I also run the handicapped division of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children – a group of disabled people. It is difficult for me to express my appreciation of your positive, loving attitude toward your daughter, since it means so much to me. I feel that your acceptance embraces all disabled people, and it represents such a radically different view to the one more commonly expressed. Every day I read in the press about “exciting breakthroughs,” which mean yet another way to kill people like me before birth…”
Paul Greenberg “Perfect Babies Via Abortion” Arizona Republic April 3, 1996
Most abortions of handicapped babies occur in the second or third trimester because problems are often not detected until then.
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Being diabled but not significantly, I still know that even as difficult as it is at times, there is a great blessing in this challenge.What has always been seen as a negative, is truly a blessing in desguise!