Patricia Heaton Condemns Killing Infants With Down Syndrome in Abortions
Actress Patricia Heaton, best known from Everybody Loves Raymond, is using her voice to call out something deeply disturbing happening in Iceland, and the way the media is talking about it.
It started when CBS posted a tweet that almost sounded like praise. The tweet highlighted how Iceland has nearly gotten rid of Down syndrome in their country. But the way they’ve done it is not through medical breakthroughs or better support. It’s through abortion.
According to CBS’ own report, Iceland has one main hospital where nearly all babies are born, and nearly all abortions happen. When a woman finds out her baby has Down syndrome, almost 100% choose abortion. That means Iceland hasn’t “reduced” Down syndrome. They’ve nearly eliminated the people who have it.
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Patricia Heaton didn’t hold back. She responded to the CBS tweet by saying:
“Iceland isn’t actually eliminating Down syndrome. They’re just killing everybody that has it. Big difference.”
Heaton later wrote a piece for America, The Jesuit Review, explaining how valuable every child really is. She highlighted:
“The birth of any child is going to bring great change to the parents’ lives; this is all the more true when it is a child with a disability.”
In other words, yes—raising a child with special needs comes with challenges. But that’s part of life. Every person, whether they’re born with a disability or not, will face struggles at some point. That doesn’t make their life less worth living.Bottom of Form
Heaton also reminded Christians why they can’t stay silent on issues like this. She added:
“Finally, as Christians, we must always engage in this battle by being a voice for the voiceless and taking seriously Christ’s command to care for the least among us. In a world where we are daily conditioned to expect an environment that caters to our every need and desire, we must remind ourselves that the value of our lives and the lives of others is based not on material wealth or accomplishments but on the intrinsic worth we all possess as human beings created by God and in his image. As St. John Paul II said, ‘A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members, and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.’”
One of the most heartbreaking details in CBS’ report is that when Icelandic women abort their babies, the hospital gives them a “prayer card” with the baby’s weight and footprints, as if a souvenir can soften the reality of what happened.
This is what Patricia Heaton is pushing back against. She wants people to see the truth: Iceland didn’t fix a medical condition. They wiped out nearly an entire group of people.
Her message is simple: every life has value. And no society should decide that some babies deserve to live while others don’t, especially based on a diagnosis.
LifeNews Note: Ashlynn Lemos is the communications intern for Texas Right to Life.
