Doctor Worries Abortions May Be Reduced

No, this is not from the Onion (the satirical 'newsite').

From LifeNews.com:

Sarah Palin's Keeping Disabled Baby May Reduce Abortions Doctor Worries

A leading Canadian doctor is drawing gasps from people across the world
with a comment that he worries abortions will go down because of Sarah Palin's
story. The number two doctor at the national Canadian physicians group worries
Palin's decision to keep her disabled baby will reduce abortions.

Palin's story of deciding to give birth to her disabled son Trig
despite knowing he would be afflicted with Down syndrome, has been an
encouragement to families with special needs children.

But it's bad news to André Lalonde, executive vice-president of the
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

"The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in
Canada," he told the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper Tuesday.
According to
the paper, Lalonde said that, "above all else, women must be free to choose" and
that positive messages like the one from Palin "could have detrimental effects
on women and their families."

Still, LaLone claimed his group doesn't encourage doctors to promote
abortions to parents of Down syndrome babies -- even though statistics show
about 90 percent of babies diagnosed with the condition become victims of
abortion.

"We offer the woman the choice. We try to be as unbiased as possible,"
he said. "We're coming down to a moral decision and we all know moral decisions
are personal decisions."

But Krista Flint, director of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, also
talked with the Toronto paper and said families feel doctors encourage abortions
by stressing the drawbacks to a baby with special needs.
"It's very dark,"
she said. "They hear a lot about the medical conditions that are sometimes
associated with Down syndrome."

Story continued at LifeNews.com.