a sane woman does not called a Down’s baby “it” at least in my perfect world
I didn’t know that.
I only know that I liked what I heard today.
Maybe she has rethought that statement and is making up for it in her newer commentaries. The only one I would call "it" are adult transsexuals who have rendered themselves neither gender.
I don’t know this woman. What was her context for calling a baby an it? That sounds cruel but I don’t know the context. For instance, I had a classic British child care book once in which Penelope Leach, the author, decided to call babies “it” in there instead of picking a gender.