At least, according to this guy's logic:
State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas says disabled children are God's punishment to women who have aborted their first pregnancy...
"The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children," said Marshall, a Republican.
That is really, really frakking disgusting. (Not to mention - as should be evident - untrue. There's ZERO correllation between having an abortion and later having a child with physical or mental disabilities.) It's offensive to those of us who believe that God doesn't punish people in this way, and it should go without saying that it's obscene to believe that disabled children are punishment for anything.
I hope that Sarah Palin, currently the country's most prominent advocate for families with disabled children (judging by her willingness to call out what she sees as ableism on the part of anyone from Barack Obama to Seth MacFarlane) will publicly criticize Marshall for his comments.
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