Hillary Clinton Laments That Disabled Babies Can’t Be Aborted in Idaho
“These stories are playing out all over the country.”
Former Secretary of State and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently took to Twitter to lament an abortion ban in Idaho that caused a mother to travel out of state to abort her unborn baby.
“An Idaho mother faced two options: Continue a pregnancy likely to end in miscarriage or stillbirth, with risks to her own health, or travel out of state for an abortion,” Clinton, who has advocated for legal abortion up to birth, tweeted. “These stories are playing out all over the country.”
Live Action Network noted that Clinton was responding to a story from the Idaho Capital Sun about a law in the state that prevented a woman by the name of Jennifer Adkins from aborting her unborn baby after learning that the child “likely had Turner syndrome.”
The pro-life activist group notes that “It is unclear if Adkins underwent definitive testing, as early prenatal screening only provides the level of risk that a child has a certain health condition, not a positive or negative result.”
What is clear is that Adkins, out of fear of the possibility that either she or her daughter could suffer health complications, decided to abort. Yet Idaho law doesn’t allow for abortions on the basis of fetal diagnosis.
“It’s hard knowing that my body and the fetus are trying so hard to hang on,” Adkins said. “And we had to make a really hard decision. Do we try? But for what purpose? There’s no sense in bringing a child into this world that’s not going to survive anyway or have severe complications. And it’s not fair to any of us.”