Posted on 09/10/2008 5:52:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
My God. I never knew.
I have a severely austistic daughter. Seven years old, can’t talk, isn’t toilet-trained, walks with difficulty, likes to chew things and destroy things.
I love that little bug. She doesn’t know how to hate. She never put anyone down. For all the things she can’t do, she CAN show me and the world around her that you don’t need to be like the world.
Concerning Gen. DeGaulle...despite the actions of those who have come after him, I shall never again associate him with the “cheese-eating surrender monkey” crowd.
They might not appreciate it fully, but I believe they know. I read their statement before he was born and thinking about it makes me, a not deeply religious woman, cry. Sarah and Todd Palin said that they were humbled that God ‘entrusted’ that baby to them.
Plus, Sarah is one of those women who has so much energy, if there were a way to harness it, she could probably keep Alaska warm through the winter. She runs marathons - that takes training. She’s in an aerobics group. She hunts, fishes, cooks, does ornament exchanges. She’s probably in a book club and taking lessons of some sort (golf, tennis, language). Knowing all those things about her makes me suspect that she might be on foundations or boards that would enable her to understand what raising a child with Down Syndrome is like.
Cat 5 Sarah - Bring it on!
He went up a couple of notches in my book, too.
From wiki:
On 22 August 1962, Charles de Gaulle was the victim of an attempted assassination at Petit-Clamart. He later said that the potentially fatal bullet had been stopped by the frame of the photograph of Anne that he always carried with him, placed this particular day on the rear shelf of his car.
**As the father of a 25 year old son with Down Syndrome, I know.**
Thanks for sharing your part of this story.
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The eugenic abortion of Down’s Syndrome babies is another aspect of the way our modern society is flirting with a utilitarian evaluation of human life. Parents are urged to weigh the “value” of the life of the child against the costs of high levels of care and support that the child will require. The vast majority look at this calculation and come down on the side of death over life.
Similarly, in the debate over Embryonic Stem Cell Research, we are encouraged to consider the value of the supposed miracle cures that could be realized, and weigh that against the human life value of the embryos destroyed (if any). It seems that most voters are coming down on the side of death on this issue, as well.
And now, “medical ethicists” are discussing changing the criteria to determine when death has occured, with an eye to a more permissive standard in order to facilitate organ transplants. Again, people seem to be concluding that the value of the organs outweighs the value of the individual life involved.
We are heading down this road along multiple lanes. If government siezes control of medical care, we can count on them applying a utilitarian standard when it comes time to ration care. They will literally sieze the power of life and death, and the people will willingly give it up.
Against this tide stand Sarah, Todd and Trig Palin.
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Me, too ... and I hadn't heard of Anne de Gaulle until today.
Thank you for your post. This is one of the most beautiful I have ever read and I’m so glad that you chose to post it here.
And thank you, Kaslin, for posting John Fund’s article.
I am passing both of these along to all my friends and making hard copies for those who do not have a computer.
Your HOmepage is terrific, Kolokotronis!
Thank-you for the kind words. :)
I can say as a grandmother, you are a very, very special father. Your son is very blessed to have you, as you are to have him. Just thinking of your lovely tribute to him makes me smile. We can only pray that these babies will not be turned away as they have been in the past; they are all children of God.
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