Frankie Antonelli documents a segment of an institution TV reveal on the subject of Jan. 26 in Mount Pleasant, S.C. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
In her April 3 Mindset essay, “Indiana’s Brand-new abortion rule will certainly gain my patients suffer,” Katherine McHugh argued that females that terminate “pregnancies diagnosed along with Down syndrome” gain these choices “from like and compassion, a seemingly apparent concept.”
I want she owned clarified exactly how the termination of a Down syndrome pregnancy shows like and compassion, in specific with regard to the fetus. Is it feasible that Ms. McHugh has actually never ever visited individuals along with Down syndrome that job in our libraries, grocery stores, churches and schools? Undoubtedly she missed the scripture reading recited flawlessly by 26-year-aged Meghan Jones, a woman along with Down syndrome, prior to a televised audience of thousands at the papal Mass in the Area in September. And she should have actually missed Sally Jenkins’s wonderful March 3 Sports article, “ ‘What’s your dream, Frankie?,’ ” describing the life of Frankie Antonelli, an 18-year-aged along with Down syndrome going to Clemson University with regard to continuing education.
I chance none of these individuals encountered Ms. McHugh’s essay; it was so dismissive of their lives.
P.C. Brown, Potomac
