Appeals court upholds Ohio law against Down syndrome abortions, judge decries 'modern-day eugenics'

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld an Ohio law banning doctors from performing abortions when they know the reason a woman is seeking an abortion is that her baby has Down syndrome, a significant win for pro-life groups. 

Judge Alice Batchelder, who was first appointed by former President George H. W. Bush, led the majority in saying the law didn't violate a woman's right to abortion because it only restricts doctors who know of a woman's reason for abortion -- not the woman or the abortion itself.  Many think that eugenics ended with the horrors of the Holocaust. Unfortunately, it did not. The philosophy and the pure evil that motivated Hitler and Nazi Germany to murder millions of innocent lives continues today. "There is no absolute or per se right to an abortion based on the stage of the pregnancy," Batchelder wrote.  6th Circuit Opinion Ohio Do... by Fox News