Virginia State Delegate: 'I Don't Believe That Disabled Kids Are God's Punishments, Period'

Let's see some citations for these studies.

Not that it would make his comments any less bone-headed.

Disabled like...Maher & Maddow? Hey, show some compassion, dude!

In a weird way, without seeing any studies, what he says makes some sense. Looking at averages, older parents run a higher risk of birth abnormalities such as Down's Syndrome. If you subtract the first in sequence (i.e. the aborted fetus) from birth averages, then the remaining children, i.e. the post-abortion children, are being born to older parents than the aborted child would have been. The simple fact is that aborting children shifts the average age of first motherhood upwards, with the expected concommitant impact on birth defects. The guy may be a douche, but his math is correct.

In an interview with TPM, state Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA) disputed the full accuracy and context of a local news article . . . [Emphasis added]

For Pete's sake, TPM--if you interviewed this guy, why couldn't you have asked him what "peer-reviewed medical journals" he was referring to?

My take from this article is:

If you don't know what you're talking about, STFU!

The study is from 2007, but the study data are more than 40 years old.

From the article:
"The big question, however, is how well data from the 1960s really represents American women today. Back in the '60s, induced abortions were illegal in the U.S. It's possible that some women in the study had abortions but denied it — even to their doctors — or claimed to have miscarried. That makes the data harder to interpret. Illegal abortion techniques of the day, moreover, were no doubt cruder than abortion procedures today, and they may have caused more permanent damage to the reproductive system. Indeed, the public-health implications of the JECH study may be more suitable for developing countries, says Adera — places where abortion is still illegal, and where prenatal care may be similar to what was offered in the U.S. half a century ago. Still, he says, all over the world, "Women need to be informed about these risks.""

Maybe Marshall is looking forward to our medical system resembling that of a developing country.

I say idiot representatives are God's punishment for making the wrong choice in the voting booth.

So we've unearthed the source - an outlier review of old data which only suggests (weakly) a correlation between abortion and one actual disability (CP, since prematurity and low birth weight aren't disabilities). Even that connection is slender since most CP cases can be linked directly to oxygen deprivation in delivery, not anything regarding abortion. It's a hell of a leap from there to what this jackass said.

Another idiot who lives his life based on the 6000 year old propoganda of the old testament.

If the people who made that shit up could see these modern day fools they wouldn't believe it.

My god people seem to be competing to out-do one another at laying proper claim to being the MOST Ignorant Imbecil in the entire history of the human species, and with the aid of modern technology, providing the media footage to prove it.

I'm just happy not to be a designated judge, it would be sensory overload and too many contestants to evaluate.

Abortions have actually declined over the last few years, so by Rep. Dimwit's calculations, the number of birth defects should have declined as well.

If I were making this point, I would have said "Studies have shown a higher rate of certain birth defects and illnesses in children born to women who had previously had abortions" -- assuming of course I had authentic research behind it. That would be a legitimate statement of fact, do with it what you will.

But that's not what he said. He characterized it as a natural punishment for the act. Going back to the original, this quote was also teamed with the key passage:

"In the Old Testament, the first born of every being,
animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There's
a special punishment Christians would suggest."

In dextrous back-pedalling worthy of a shut-down NFL cornerback, Mr. Marshall essentially quoted himself out of context to get off the hook.

But that second quote, aye, there's the rub.

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