The Democratic Party is under fire for recent comments made by Michael Hugo, Chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee. During a February 7 city council meeting, Mr. Hugo attacked crisis pregnancy centers and implied that children born with certain disabilities should not have been born at all.
He said, “[If an unqualified sonographer misdiagnoses certain defects], that becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to the children who are born with the defects…”
Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America/SFLAction was appalled and told Pete Hegseth on Fox & Friends Weekend that these types of eugenic views have existed since Planned Parenthood was founded. Kurt Kondrich responded to Mr. Hugo’s statements as well; he called it “beyond offensive and evil” and referred to aborting babies due to disability as “prenatal execution.”
Rather than condemning this type of language outright, Mr. Hugo chose to apologize after public outcry rather than reassess his view – something that Kristan Hawkins says is not enough.
She remarked that until he changes his belief about abortion being used as eugenics, his apology is not genuine or sincere.
These comments are especially alarming considering how many Republican policies work tirelessly towards protecting life in all forms – including those living with disabilities – such as the Down Syndrome Discrimination by Abortion Act proposed this past January which seeks to prohibit discrimination against unborn children based on their diagnosis or potential diagnosis for Down syndrome among other disabilities
Many other GOP policies also seek to support families raising disabled children from tax credits. They also want to provide access to health benefits for those children.
Just as a side note, I find it ironic and a little hypocritical that the left wants to force Americans to accept people for who they want to via the trans movement but with death on babies who may or may not be born with less than-perfect genes.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.