{"id":2185,"date":"2008-09-11T10:19:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2008-09-11T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:19:52","slug":"just-keeps-gett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/just-keeps-gett\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Keeps Getting Sicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2008\/09\/sarah-palin-dow.html\">LA Times: Canadian doctor warns Sarah Palin&#8217;s decision to have Down baby could reduce abortions<b><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.<br \/>\nPublished reports in Canada say about <b>9 out of 10 women given a diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy through abortion.<\/b> <i>[emphasis added]<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sogc.org\/contact_e.asp\">the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa,<\/a> worries that Palin&#8217;s now renowned decision may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere opt to follow suit.<br \/>\nHe says not every woman is prepared to deal with the consequences of Down babies, who have developmental delays, some physical difficulties and often a shortened lifespan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know what to say&#8230;Is this all reactionary, or were people this sick before and now they feel the right to vent their evil?<br \/>\n<b>HT:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/chezami\/4633263514378894179\/#940535\">Catholic and Enjoying It! combox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: Canadian doctor warns Sarah Palin&#8217;s decision to have Down baby could reduce abortions But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/just-keeps-gett\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Keeps Getting Sicker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,2],"tags":[78,148,149],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","category-current-events","category-life-issues","tag-abortion","tag-down-syndrome","tag-sarah-palin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}