LEND Trainee, Cori Frazer, Writes Opinion Piece for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The Pennsylvania House this week passed House Bill 2050 to make it more difficult for people to terminate a pregnancy when a fetus has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. The rationale is that this affirms the value of people with Down syndrome and therefore will make life better for them in Pennsylvania.

I am skeptical of this claim. More than 13,000 people with intellectual disabilities wait for services in Pennsylvania, many of them with Down syndrome, yet few sponsors of HB 2050 also sponsor HB 414, which would expand necessary services that were supposed to have been guaranteed to intellectually and developmentally disabled Americans since 1999, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its Olmstead ruling on the Americans with Disabilities Act."