Ana Navarro Goes Full Eugenicist, Defends Abortion by Citing Disabled Family Members

Patrick Taylor | June 27, 2022
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The mainstream media’s resident “Catholic Republican” is back at it, this time saying something heinous enough to shock even her harshest critics.

Political commentator Ana Navarro-Cardenas said the following during a CNN panel regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday:

I am not anybody to tell you what you need to do with your life or your uterus! And because I have a family with a lot of special needs kids. I have a brother who's 57 and has the mental and the motor skills of a one year old. And I know what that means financially, emotionally, physically, for a family, and I know not all families can do it. And I have a step-granddaughter who was born with Down's syndrome, and you know what? It is very difficult in Florida to get services. It is not as easy as it sounds on paper and I've got another, another step-grandson who is very autistic, who has autism. Mothers, and people in that society in that community will tell you that they've considered suicide because that's how difficult it is to get help, because that's how lonely they feel, because they can’t get other jobs, because they have financial issues, because the care that they’re able to give their other children suffers.

Listing one’s own relatives while arguing in favor of aborting disabled children is generally frowned upon, but Navarro doubled down on her pro-abortion argument.

“And so why can’t I be Catholic and still think [Dobbs v. Jackson] is a wrong decision?” Navarro-Cardenas asked, continuing her comments. “Because I’m American. I’m Catholic inside the Church, I’m Catholic when it comes to me, but there’s a lot of Americans who are not Catholic [...] and you have no damn right to tell them what they should do with their bodies. Nobody does.”

After being roundly criticized for her remarks, Navarro-Cardenas posted to Twitter, “Some have twisted my words. Won’t stop me calling it out: Banning women’s choices, but NOT funding enough aid for kids & adults w/special needs & disabilities, or a safety-net for single moms & poor families, or safe, loving foster care & adoption, isn’t Pro-life. It’s hypocrisy.”

Related: Pro-Abortion Activists Try to Set Virginia Church on Fire, Behead Another's Statues

In her usual classy fashion, an unrepentant Navarro further told her critics, “Bless your hearts. Eat sh*t. Or whatever,” and again repeated the claim that pro-lifers had twisted her words.

Conservative commentator Michael Knowles, who had previously called Navarro’s comments the “Single Worst Take on Dobbs,” responded incredulously, writing, “‘twisted my words’ = played a video of her speaking.”

 

Knowles is correct. It doesn’t require much “twisting” of Navarro’s words to understand what she is proposing. 

In countries like Denmark, 98 percent of babies with Down syndrome are aborted — a statistic that’s a point of pride for many on the left, but properly understood, is a eugenicist atrocity. 

Rates of Down syndrome aren’t lower in Europe because of some scientific advancement, but because nearly the entire population of children with Down syndrome are never given a chance to live in the first place. Though Navarro’s advocacy for this eugenicist ideal may have been especially ineloquent, it’s unfortunately not unique in leftist discourse.

 

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