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YouTuber who broadcast decision to abort pregnancy over Down syndrome diagnosis reveals shocking lack of humanity

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Rachel Campos Duffy — whose perpetually smiley 6-year-old, Valentina, has Down syndrome — told me recently that people with the congenital condition aren’t nearly as visible as they once were.

A grim number explains their relative disappearance.

“You know, up to 90% of people with Down Syndrome are being aborted,” the mother-of-nine said during an interview last month just ahead of Mother’s Day. “It’s really tragic how genetic testing has caused their demise.”

Campos-Duffy’s words hit me hard last week after a Youtuber with 4.3 million subscribers announced that he and his wife decided to terminate a pregnancy because it was likely the baby would be born with Down syndrome.

Jesse Ridgway, who posts on YouTube under the very respectable name McJuggerNuggets, shared a long thread on X explaining why they aborted their future son — a baby who would surely have arrived into this world with his own set of challenges, but his own unique sense of joy.

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