In 2009, Sarah Palin told Barbara Walters that when amniocentesis showed a Down Syndrome diagnosis on her fifth pregnancy, the then-Governor of Alaska considered abortion as an option. But a split second later she rejected the idea out of an “understanding that every child has purpose. There is destiny for every child.”

At Monday’s press conference on autism, President Donald Trump offered a different view. Instead of acknowledging that all children have a purpose and destiny, he villainized children with autism. Flanked by Secretary of Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump spoke about seeing a child with autism.

“It was so, so terrible,” Trump said. “They got the shot and the kid is…(pause) badly hurt—let’s be nic

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