In not one, but now two columns at the Washington Post, Ruth Marcus has taken aim at Down syndrome babies, the parents who raise them, and the experience of those women who choose to abort said children. In her first column, Marcus made the case for selective abortion, particularly of babies who might be born with Down syndrome. In her second, she doubles down with a manipulative ploy acting as victim when she’s really the perpetrator: Marcus is no more arguing for abortion rights – or “reproductive health” as the cool kids say now – than she is for a kind of new-age eugenics.

In her first column, Marcus points out conservatives who are attempting to actually ban women from aborting babies with Down syndrome are awful because Down syndrome children require effort and extra compassion, and after all, we’re modern women now, we deserve that right.