Scholar from Columbia University Attacks Texas Law Because it Will Allow More Down Syndrome Children to be Born

Richard Hanania, a scholar from Columbia University, fretted to his thousands of followers on Wednesday night that a new Texas law that would ban abortions once a heartbeat can be detected would be detrimental to America because it would enable more people with down syndrome to be born.

As The Daily Caller reports:

A Columbia University scholar suggested late Wednesday night that Texas’ Heartbeat Act will lead to the birth of more babies with Down syndrome, increasing negative stereotypes about red states.

One in every 700 babies in the United States is born with Down syndrome, according to the National Down Syndrome Society. It is not clear what number of babies with Down syndrome are aborted, but one 2012 study estimated the abortion rate for babies with Downs was 67%, the AP reported.

A September 2011 study on perceptions of people with Down syndrome found that almost 99% of people with Down syndrome said they were happy with their lives and loved their families, 97% liked who they were and their brothers and sisters, and 96% liked how they look.

Hanania, a former research fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University who has written in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Needless to say conservatives on social media didn’t take kindly to Hanania’s transparent call for eugenics to end the lives of disabled people in the womb:

Matthew Williams