{"id":1373,"date":"2012-06-05T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-06-05T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:57:32","slug":"fetal-alcohol-syndrome-amniocentesis-gender-based-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; amniocentesis; gender-based abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"

We talked\u00a0to a woman recently who said she and her husband adopted a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.\u00a0 It’s their only child, and she said the girl has been a tremendous blessing.\u00a0 She added that people\u00a0will sometimes\u00a0abort when there is early diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Down Syndrome, and the like.\u00a0 And in so doing, they will miss the tremendous blessing these children can bring.\u00a0 One form of this testing is called: amniocentesis.\u00a0 This procedure includes inserting a needle through the uterine wall to gather samples.\u00a0 Also now, there is a simple blood test to determine birth defects.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 During a stop in North Carolina during an earlier campaign, we talked with a couple who adopted a\u00a0baby girl from China.\u00a0 Because of the “One Child Policy” in China, girls are often aborted, or left to die in back alleys or isolated rice paddies.\u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 The following is a AP<\/em><\/strong> lead to a May 31, 2012 story:\u00a0 WASHINGTON \u2014 The House on Thursday fell short in an effort to ban abortions based on the sex of the fetus as Republicans and Democrats made an election-year appeal for women’s votes.\u00a0 [Given China’s gender-based abortions, what does that say about our country?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We talked\u00a0to a woman recently who said she and her husband adopted a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.\u00a0 It’s their only child, and she said the girl has been a tremendous blessing.\u00a0 She added that people\u00a0will sometimes\u00a0abort when there is …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}