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Leftists Feign Sympathy For Autistic Babies They’d Happily Abort
The Federalist ^ | September 29, 2025 | Lauren Washburn

Posted on 09/29/2025 11:06:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

True compassion is equipping women to build strong, healthy pregnancies so fewer problems ever arise — not telling them to end the life of their child when challenges appear.

When President Donald Trump announced Tylenol can cause autism, leftists suddenly gained compassion for the disabled. This is strange, because usually they advocate killing them.

Trump said acetaminophen, the primary active ingredient found in Tylenol, used during pregnancy is linked to autism in a press conference on Sept. 22. He repeatedly urged mothers not to take it unless absolutely necessary.

The left responded by defending autism, arguing the disability does not need to be cured — since autistic people have value. This is strange, considering they support assisted suicide and aborting disabled people when inconvenient.

Although autism is a disability that can’t be detected in the womb, leftists advocate abortion for similar disabilities, such as Down syndrome. But after Trump’s announcement, leftists are pretending to have compassion for the disabled.

“Let us be clear — Autism is NOT a disease. It does not require a cure. It is not something to fear or eradicate. … Autistic brains are beautiful,” one popular account said.

A pro-LGBT account posted a similar message. “The myths and conspiracy theories about autism often come from the harmful idea that being autistic is something wrong or something to eliminate,” the post reads. “That is not true.”

The American Association of People with Disabilities Instagram account, a left-leaning nonprofit that has posted about “pride month,” Juneteenth, and black history month, called Trump’s efforts eugenic. “Efforts by the current administration to ‘cure’ and ‘prevent’ autism are rooted in stigma, ableism, and eugenics,” the post reads. “Autistic people are...

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1 posted on 09/29/2025 11:06:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I question this whole “autism” thing and think it’s another Leftist ploy as an excuse for more gov’t and death.

That’s what the Left stands for: gov’t and death.


2 posted on 09/29/2025 11:13:49 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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My brother was autistic in the 70s when nobody knew what that was and no support systems existed, they had to forge a path themselves and that included getting schools to even allow him in. My mom would never - ever! - consider aborting him if she could do it over. But if she knew it was something she did that may have contributed and she could go back in time, she would 100% remove that behavior and give her baby it's best chance at a full productive life with access to all that life has to offer.

Saying that makes her ableist is utter bull exrement.

3 posted on 09/29/2025 11:15:44 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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I think that starting in the 90s teachers started lobbying that any boy who didn't behave like a polite little girl be labeled with ADHD and fed ritalin to make them docile. Later it became easier to declare anyone who didnt behave like a polite little girl as autistic. Shy? No, autistic. Energetic? no, autistic. Daydreamer? No, autistic.

When my brother was a kid in the 70s, autistic meant serious developmental disability. They've watered it down so much that people will now say "we're all on the spectrum in some way" - literally saying that everyone is autistic. It's meaningless now.

4 posted on 09/29/2025 11:23:12 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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I think that starting in the 90s teachers started lobbying that any boy who didn't behave like a polite little girl be labeled with ADHD and fed ritalin to make them docile. Later it became easier to declare anyone who didnt behave like a polite little girl as autistic. Shy? No, autistic. Energetic? no, autistic. Daydreamer? No, autistic.

When my brother was a kid in the 70s, autistic meant serious developmental disability. They've watered it down so much that people will now say "we're all on the spectrum in some way" - literally saying that everyone is autistic. It's meaningless now.

5 posted on 09/29/2025 11:23:17 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Demonic people that deserve to hang by their entails. I am the father of an autistic child and thank God every day for him.


6 posted on 09/29/2025 11:23:55 AM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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That’s ALL the left stands for is government and death.


7 posted on 09/29/2025 11:28:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Jim W N

That’s ALL the left stands for is government and death.


8 posted on 09/29/2025 11:28:04 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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