Mom Fights Back After Cruel Troll Uses Disabled Daughter’s Image To Promote Abortion

For multiple families with disabled children across America, Medicaid is a crucial lifeline – especially considering the fact that people are accepted onto the optional program based on their disability, not their income.

In the US, even those with private insurance find it almost impossible to afford the proper care they need, and many families face putting themselves into medical bankruptcy if not for programmes like Medicaid.

For Natalie and her family, Medicaid allows a “hospital style” setup, complete with in-home nursing, meaning Sophia can be properly cared for in the comfort of her own home, rather than a medical facility.

If the programme is scrapped, optional set-ups like this are at risk, and Natalie believes that reducing Sophia’s services could be deadly:

“She’s a more extreme case with all her medical needs, so that’s why I fight. I also fight because, of many attempts to repeal the ACA; the individual mandate, and people with pre-existing conditions wouldn’t be able to afford insurance and ACA provided protection for people with existing conditions.

My child has private insurance through an employer but anybody could lose their job, nobody’s job is guaranteed, so I’m just overall fighting for the protection of people with chronic illness and disabilities and my child in the process.”

Living with any disability is always difficult, but in the age of Trump, it seems things have become more of a struggle for both disabled people and their families. When asked if Natalie had noticed a shift in certain people’s attitudes towards her daughter since the 45th POTUS came to office, she confessed she believed that people were following by Trump’s example:

“They seem to be a little more bold, people in their attacks towards people with disabilities. They’ve seen the President make fun of someone with a disability, so they say ‘I can do it’, publically attacking my child. I know that the attacks have been there all along before this, but I feel like it has emboldened people to just go after us a little bit more.

Also, there are these outward attacks on my child because she’s disabled. ‘Kill her, put her out of her misery, she’s a waste of life’, those types of things. So you’ve got these loud vile attacks, but these quiet attacks from our administration to those with disabilities and so it just seems like more of an outwardly open expression of what has been quietly going on behind closed doors with our administration.”

But at the end of the day, no matter who or where it is from, this unforgivable hate goes hand-in-hand with a strong sense of irony. The thing is, anyone could get a disability at any time – which means Natalie is fighting for everyone, including her enemies who claim that her child shouldn’t be allowed to live.

The mother-of-three explains: “They’re attacking me and I try not to respond, but sometimes there are just days where you can’t take it anymore and I feel like ‘I’m fighting for you too’. And if something happens to you tomorrow, though you just told me to kill my child, I would fight for you too. Anything could happen to any one of us and healthcare should be a human right.”

Imagine if you, your partner or your own child was struck down by a drunk driver and left disabled – perhaps paralyzed from the neck down. Does this mean your life should be ended? Does this mean you still couldn’t feel love and compassion? No. And this is why these idiots need to be silenced, and this is why Natalie’s cause needs to be heard.

If you’ve been affected by Natalie and Sophia’s story, please donate to Advocates for Medically Fragile Children.