NBC’s Chief Medical Editor is very ‘pro-science’ and believes that detecting potential genetic defects in your unborn child has great potential for the future, but it also gives parents the choice to decide whether they want to abort their child. Despite ethical issues it may bring up, she’s pro-science so screw the social questions!

LIFE NEWS – On Friday’s NBC Today, chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman explained to viewers that it’s just good science to abort an unborn child that may have a genetic disorder, explaining that testing for such conditions, “gives parents a chance to decide whether they’re going to continue that pregnancy or not. This is the science of today.”

Snyderman then predicted: “I think the future will be such that you’ll find out that your child may have a genetic hit. You can fix that genetic problem, and improve your chance, a child’s chance…” When co-host Savannah Guthrie raised ethical questions about aborting children under such circumstances, Snyderman matter-of-factly replied: “Well, I’m pro-science, so I believe that this is a great way to prevent diseases.”

“NANCY SNYDERMAN: Well, you might learn that a child has a severe genetic problem. It gives parents a chance to decide whether they’re going to continue that pregnancy or not. This is the science of today. It is running fast into the future. And I think the future will be such that you’ll find out that your child may have a genetic hit. You can fix that genetic problem

GUTHRIE: Do you think it raises ethical issues? I mean at what point, if you have information that your child is going to have a genetic problem, and then you’re posed with the question of whether to go forward with the pregnancy?

SNYDERMAN: Well, I’m pro-science, so I believe that this is a great way to prevent diseases.




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aelfheld
aelfheld

I’m pro-science, so I believe that [aborting genetically imperfect children] is a great way to prevent diseases.

Herr Doktor Josef Rudolf Mengele said the same thing.

Dan
Dan

well then ...we know that Liberalism is a diseases and therefore we should put an end to all libs...and in the end ...after all "I’m pro-science" and it IS... "a great way to prevent diseases." ....SO ALL LIBS PLEASE REPORT TO THE NEAREST GAS CHAMBER WERE YOU CAN HELP SCIENCE AND BETTER THE WORLD...AFTER ALL "IN SCIENCE WE TRUST"

Maureensay
Maureensay

Just another of the crazies from the world of NBC .Maybe the doctor should donate herself to the "proscience" cause so that we can figure out the brains (or lack of) of those who work over there!

Naje13
Naje13

This woman is so smart she doesn't even have to think. Not your everyday smart, I mean like pro-science smart. Think about the people who could have been aborted by this nimrod.

Stephen Hawking - ALS

Howard Hughes - Tourettes

Lou Gehrig - ALS

John Nash - Schizophrenia

Helen Keller - blindness/deafness

Beethoven - deafness

FDR - Polio

Michael J. Fox - Parkinson's

Muhammed Ali - Parkinson's

Richard Pryor - MS

Dwight Eisenhower - Crohn's disease

Bobby Fisher - suspected Autism

Lots of notable people have Autism. But I think this list proves that people who have problems (genetic or otherwise) can be safely discarded, without consequence.

Brian Lasater
Brian Lasater

And what IF they can test a fetus in the future for gayness....still a good idea?

sjmom
sjmom

May God have mercy on her.

ossnhughie
ossnhughie

I have read many comments spot on, on this thread and this sounds like pure eugenics to me. Shall we ask this charlatan if she means "Lebensunwertes Leben" as the Nazi's called it. "Life unworthy of life" was a key part of the Nazi regime program of purifying the human race. If this is progress I want no part of it. This woman and her ilk are nothing but barbarians hiding under a veil of modern science. Murder is not progress IT IS MURDER!

President Reagan said it best: "Ive noticed that everyone who is for abortion is already born."

We must fight tooth and nail to keep these people at bay before they start slaughtering even more innocents.

yhxqqsn
yhxqqsn

Must sacrifice the children to the god of science if we want to receive the god of science's blessings.

Laurel
Laurel

Birth defects have nothing to do with diseases. Quite the opposite actually. Did she flunk med school?

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

This woman is an idiot. Just two days ago she was complimenting Saudi Arabia on their work on women's rights.

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

This person and what she stands for is only one reason of many reasons, why the Democrat Party is known as The Party Of Death.

They destory everything they tounch one way or another, and still they aren't satistfied, they must consum more and more like the insatiable appetite of a deadly bacteria.

Incurable diseases have nothing on the democrat parties well manifested record of death.

Just to name one who died at their hands, Terri Schiavo. lest we forget her.

Tea Party Patriot

Vote them all out 2012!

respectfully

FutureOnePercent
FutureOnePercent

We don't we just treat people like horses and take them out back and shoot them if they get sick? That will cure them right?

God help us all.

lilium479
lilium479

Aborting is neither pro or anti science. Abortion is a moral question not a scientific one.

She is dangerous and ignorant.

TJinNJ
TJinNJ

The Left = EVIL - This is the result of their God-less beliefs (communists)

no_kia
no_kia

liberal fact vs. fiction. When these nutty liberals decree they believe in science that means junk science like global warming, eugenics, infanticide like they have in China and India.

GiantM
GiantM

Whatever happened to moral responsibility in this country!?

Oh don't get me wrong, there ARE still many who believe in doing the right thing. The reality is the minority always seems to have a bigger voice.

JoeMontana16
JoeMontana16

Please God forgive us for ever letting this happen. 1973, the year of infanticide.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Thankfully her parents weren't so narrow-minded when she was born... even though her genetic defect is an immature brain. Sick, sick, sick.

Joseph ewing
Joseph ewing

This is great news. Please now someone identify the Liberal Gene?

NCHokie02
NCHokie02

Same type of people that don't want to cut down certain areas for development because it may harm the North Carolina field mouse.....but their completely ok with killing an unborn child and more and more a recently born child.

God made it so that we can find things through science. Science supports His existence so how is she "pro-science" and "pro-abortion".

She's the one who'll have to answer for herself one day not me.

mike morrison
mike morrison

abortion prevents disease...so does killing newborns, and toddlers, and children, and adults.

great googly moogly:( We're going to hell...all of us.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

I laughed and got scared all at once reading your reply!

kong1967
kong1967

Isn't this in the direction of Hitler? The perfect race....the perfect people with no genetic defects?

Josh
Josh

My 14 year old daughter posed a question to me just the other day. If Hitler thought that the perfect race was blonde and blue-eyed, what did that make him? I said "crazy". We both laughed. Stupid liberals.

dontdrinkthecoolaid
dontdrinkthecoolaid

Pro-science, huh? She'll kill humans before they have a chance at life, but stand tall to save animals.

TomGMS
TomGMS

Sigh...These people are altogether evil, and they need to be stopped.

12grace
12grace

It seems that we may all have predisposition toward some disease or another so if Snyderman's reasoning were followed who would be left?

Patriot077
Patriot077

This is exactly why our government should have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with our health care.

K-Bob
K-Bob

I don't mind stuff like the CDC existing. That is "research" and "preparedness." Both fall under National Defense. But we don't need some group of unelected bureaucrats deciding our medical care. No, hunh-uh!

Patriot077
Patriot077

Agreed, K-Bob. If I had been thinking, I would have added your words. I guess I was too focused on the private doctor/patient relationship.

12grace
12grace

It seems that we may all have predisposition toward some disease or another so if Snyderman's reasoning were followed who would be left?

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

'Well, I’m pro-science, so I believe that this is a great way to prevent diseases' - Snyderman

I'm pro-science, too, and I'm anti-abortion at the same time. Science is merely man's means of discovering what God has already created. We, ourselves, are not gods and have never created anything. But we sure like to destroy.

I'm really tired of the same old line about abortion being a good way to stop imperfect babies from tainting our society. No matter which way you spin it, unless there is a medical emergency, all abortions and the excuses for them are merely acts of convenience only. Pro-choice is pro-death. I choose pro-life and I'm pretty sure that my reasoning will stand up just a smidgen better on judgement day than that of the 'convenience' of abortion.

K-Bob
K-Bob

OK, I see her error is obvious, but I don't think it means people need to jump to Nazi equivalences here.

Liberals don't all think abortion is a good thing. The typical polling on abortion shows a solid majority of people don't want abortion made legal "in all circumstances". This means a lot of liberals aren't pro-choice, even though they may not want Roe-v-Wade overturned. That may sound confusing, but everything about liberals is confusing.

A lot of folks in the medical profession "allow" for abortion as a possible choice, but remember that the vast majority of doctors will always try to save the pregnancy, and save the life of the fetus. So her thinking is flawed, yeah. And she stepped in it here. But she's not Joseph Mengele because of it.

We just need to change the "default" thinking of people so that they resist the tendency to treat a fetus as a non-human. The good news is that, as medical science advances, this battle is tipping more in favor of the pro-life side, since more fetuses are being saved at earlier terms in utero.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Thanks for being so logical and clear headed K-Bob. :-)

K-Bob
K-Bob

Thanks, AbiC! Hope you are havin' a good late-Thursday/Early-Wednesday morning!

K-Bob
K-Bob

Not if you go though life backwards, like me (and Merlin). That's also why I have so many typos in my comments. I have to type backwards so you forwards people can read it.

I shall make a note of this, Tuesday-comes-before Thursday item, however.

DCGere
DCGere

God would probably disagree with her reasoning, such as it is.

CalCoolidge
CalCoolidge

Is liberalism a genetic defect?

toongoon
toongoon

All of the scientific tests I have conducted are conclusive-One sixteenth of a brain is definitely a defect-Ok Doc, you know what to do...

toongoon
toongoon

Is it pro-science to abort because it's a girl too?

NYGino
NYGino

Maybe that's why they use the term 'pro-choice instead of pro-death'. They want to choose to have either a boy or a girl. If it turns out to be not what you wanted well we have science to correct mistakes.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

She might be a doctor, who somehow forgot about the Hipocratic Oath to do no harm, but it goes to show how education does not equal brains.

Evil pathetic slope we've been on since Roe v Wade... all the things pro life folks have been warning about amid scoffers have been happening. I know parents who have down syndrome, cerebral palsy and other mentally challenged kids who would NEVER consider murdering these sweet kids. Whenever a jerk like Snyderman suggests advocating murdering babies because of genetic defects, how does she think parents or people with mild cases of DS feel? Do these evil murdering hypocrites ever think that these folks might feel less than human for being born?!

For those of you who might think that human life doesn't begin at conception, and that all it is is a lump of tissue, think about it: https://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=Ac_Z1CqthOZwez0p#!/photo.php?fbid=373340932700730&set=o.254455071242993&type=1&theater

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

Did you hear that pounding? It was me hitting my head on the keyboard after reading some of those facebook posts...there are seriously heartless creatures with computers.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

I know. I tried not to read any of them- but the point was excellent. The fact that such vile and evil posters, well, the harder the truth, the more vile the response from those who know it's true.

WordsFailMe
WordsFailMe

Since these liberal cannibals have no handguns in which to cut notches for every baby killed and since they probably won't paint dead baby pictures on the door of their Prius' like fighter pilot did in the WW's, maybe women could simply add another piercing to their ears to symbolize the children they've killed.

Certainly is a mixed bag here. Probably the children this women has strangled and mutilated are better off with out her as the sow.

These people are sick.

Guest1776rcp
Guest1776rcp

This is the science of today.

Its also the science of NAZI Germany. What a sick sick disgusting woman!

M_J_S
M_J_S

Mrs. Dr. Menegle ladies and gentleman.