I’m Catholic and ‘pro-life.’ Here’s why I would never vote for Donald Trump.

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Elena Scotti/FUSION

11/7/16 2:39 PM
By Sarah Watts

My social media accounts are bleeding red. A practicing Catholic, I have many friends and acquaintances who are voting Republican this year, in order to secure at least one conservative Supreme Court judge, and possibly even overturn Roe v. Wade. A Donald Trump vote, they say, would save millions of babies from abortion. A Trump vote is the only moral choice.

And as a practicing Catholic, I couldn’t disagree more.

Four years ago I was lying in a darkened office in a Chicago-area hospital listening to my son’s heartbeat when our obstetrician walked in and upended our lives forever. The baby on the ultrasound screen had not formed properly. His neural tube had failed to fuse together, creating a hole at the base of his spinal column. His tiny feet were clubbed inward. The buildup of spinal fluid on his brain was so immense that it had managed to push his cerebellum—the part of the brain responsible for motor control—down into his neck. I fought the urge to vomit, to run, as he scanned my burgeoning belly with his ultrasound wand and clicked his tongue disapprovingly. I can’t even see the cerebellum, he said.

The diagnoses were many, and all of them terrifying: chiari malformations, bilateral clubbed feet, hydrocephalus, and spina bifida myelomeningocele.

http://fusion.net/story/367080/trump-catholic-abortion-special-needs/