My little girl has Down syndrome, and she’s perfect

Most parents are horrified when they hear about the prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. They’re afraid of what it means for their child and what it means for themselves.

I’m not afraid of Down syndrome. Instead, I worry about what my life would have been like if I hadn’t had my daughter, Josie. She has an extra copy of her chromosome 21. she is perfect

My family and I recently traveled to New York City to participate in the Buddy Walk, part of the National Down Syndrome Association’s fundraising and awareness campaign across the country. Josie was chosen for a special honor this year and her photo will be featured on the Jumbotron in Times Square as part of the event.

We all cheered for her when her face appeared, but she didn’t care. She was busy trying to blend into the crowd with her brothers. she is 3 years old. And like her other three-year-olds, she wanted to play on the stairs.

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We then walked through Central Park with the rest of this year’s Buddy Walk participants. I held her just like I did on her walk last year. And just like her last year, she immediately fell asleep on my chest.

I thought about her life as I walked. I thought back to all the joy she brought to those who knew her or met her. As I walked, I thought about how many Down syndrome babies are aborted. 67%However, the estimated range is wide and difficult to track.

These abortions not only end a “pregnancy” but also a human life. If Josie didn’t exist, no one would laugh when she spots her reflection in a New York window and starts dancing. She won’t have anyone to play with her toes or laugh at her giggles. No one could shake her hand, smile or rejoice.

This is the cost of abortion. Babies, like Josie, are killed every day before they can take their first breath. People like the 25-year-old with Down syndrome, who danced shamelessly in the middle of the park with his parents, were wiped out in the womb because of a terrifying diagnosis.

But the world is a better place with Josie in it. Having her here makes my family and so many others so much brighter. Every baby is better because of who that baby is.

This is true whether the baby has Down syndrome or not. It’s true whether someone cures cancer or flies to the moon. This is true regardless of the baby’s medical complexity.

That’s not to say that parenting a child with Down syndrome is all sunshine and rainbows. it’s difficult. During a short trip to New York, I was struck by how heavy Josie can seem to people who don’t know her. She had to be held so I wouldn’t walk in front of her car. She bumped into people on the sidewalk and had trouble going up and down stairs.

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But these challenges should not be a death sentence. They are just difficulties and we can choose to fear them or overcome them.

But pro-abortion advocates have used the guise of “women’s health care” and “women’s rights” to convince most Americans that it is okay to kill babies like Josie. In fact, many people who abort babies diagnosed with Down syndrome consider it a “mercy killing.”

I don’t just mourn my lost children. I mourn the love my parents lost. We mourn the joy and goodness that is forever gone from their lives. I grieve over these things and hug Josie.

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I’ll never forget the look on her face in Times Square. I’ll never forget being surrounded by a national community of her biggest cheerleaders, holding her safe in a state where people like her are frequently having abortions. I’ll never forget seeing her dance in a room of mirrors surrounded by the New York skyline at One Vanderbilt Avenue.

But without her, I wouldn’t remember anything. And when a child with Down syndrome is aborted, what we lose is a human life as valuable as yours or mine.

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