U.S. Senator Says Aborting Babies with Down Syndrome Is ‘Eugenics’ 1 Feb 2021 Targeting babies with Down syndrome for abortion is “the most lethal kind of discrimination imaginable,” Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) declared this week. Speaking with Catholic News Agency (CNA), Sen. Daines, the Senate pro-life caucus chair, noted that “babies with Down syndrome are the most endangered on Earth” because of the frequency with which they are singled out for abortion. “This is eugenics, and we cannot allow this to continue in our country,” Daines said in the interview published on January 31. Daines is a cosponsor of the Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act, sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), which would ban a doctor from performing an abortion being sought because the unborn child has Down syndrome.