Ana Navarro's comments about special needs people and abortion were too horrific for S.E. Cupp and others

After the Supreme Court ruling yesterday overturning Roe v. Wade and sending the issue of abortion back to the states, CNN’s Ana Navarro delivered remarks that were insane even for CNN:

Wow that segment of Ana Navarro rattling off all the people with disabilities in her family and then using them as a reason she agrees with abortion is really something. What a freak.

— Emma-Jo (@EmmaJoNYC) June 25, 2022

“Wow,” and then some. This is what Navarro said yesterday:

I’m pretty sure Ana Navarro is umm… suggesting that autistic people and people with Down syndrome be aborted because her relatives with autism and Down syndrome are just too much work. This whole clip is so incredibly evil. pic.twitter.com/rZDWYn9Tus

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 25, 2022

That Ana Navarro clip from CNN really is just the most inhumanly repulsive thing I've seen all day related to the abortion issue. I shouldn't have watched it. She comes across as thinking special-needs children are little more than cumbersome houseplants all better off aborted.

— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) June 24, 2022

There’s also a tweet today from Navarro basically doubling down:

My older brother has mental & motor skills of a 1 year old. Is injurious to himself/others. Needs 24 hr care. He has a loving family but like many, we weren’t able to get much help. My mom considered suicide.

I call out hypocrisy of states banning abortions but providing no help https://t.co/1ZayAczTpv

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) June 25, 2022

It’s taken me a minute to decide whether I wanted to share this. But ultimately, iI felt like I had to.

Yesterday, @ananavarro, you made an argument that one of the reasons you were pro-choice was because you knew children with special needs, in your family. So do I.

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

You said you have a step-grand daughter with Down’s syndrome, and a “step-grandson who is very autistic.”

And that “there are mothers and people who are in that society or in that community will tell you they’ve considered suicide because that’s how difficult it is to get help.”

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

I have an autistic child. I have never met a parent of an autistic child or any parent of a special needs child who said they’d wished they’d aborted him or her.

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

These children face enough stigmas and challenges. Please don’t use our incredible, special, wonderful, super-hero kids to make political arguments, especially about the benefits of abortion. ❤️

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

I have been clear. I don’t want Roe overturned. But don’t even for a second make it about our special needs kids. NOT EVEN ONE SECOND.

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

Make the argument that you don’t want to have a kid. Don’t make the argument that you don’t want to have a KIND of kid that we HAVE AND LOVE. ❤️

— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) June 25, 2022

There it is.

Beautifully said @secupp https://t.co/zwkQszWE1C

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) June 25, 2022

I work with special needs kids. What @ananavarro said was appalling and shows her self-centered nature. Great thread!#AnaNavarro. https://t.co/gElOYLZnoz

— MojaveRattler🇺🇸 (@MojaveMamma) June 25, 2022

Cupp doesn’t get to the heart of the issue: Why, specifically, was it offensive when Ana Navarro said that special needs children should be aborted?

Is there something wrong with getting an abortion? https://t.co/MlaotuotZn

— “Max” (@MaxNordau) June 25, 2022

Yes, that deserves an answer.