I happen to be Hispanic and a practicing radiologist, so although I wanted to speak about Hispanics and their place in the abortion debate at the March for Life in Washington, DC, I’m going to talk about prenatal diagnosis.

This year’s March for Life theme focuses on the fact that once a baby in utero is shown to have a “defect,” it is often summarily dispatched. Having soundly rejected eugenics as practiced by evil regimes in the last century, we are doing our own soft eugenics before birth. Nowhere are the statistics more shocking than with Down’s Syndrome (around 85 percent termination rate in the U.S.).

Read more here.