Posted on 09/19/2008 8:36:42 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
I don't mean that in a romantic way. I'm talking about Trigg. How cute is he! No doubt even the most avid pro-abortionist was thinking as much when little Trigg was on the convention stage with the rest of the Palin family. I wouldn't be surprised if Palin's choice started a new fad: Everyone is going to want to get themselves a Down Syndrome baby—a breed that's almost extinct, with 80 to 90 percent of pregnancies being terminated when the prenatal test shows Down.
As mother of a Down Syndrome child Patricia Bauer wrote in the Washington Post in 2004: "Prenatal testing is making your right to abort a disabled child more like 'your duty' to abort a disabled child…At a dinner party not long ago, I was seated next to the director of an Ivy League ethics program. In answer to another guest's question, he said he believes that prospective parents have a moral obligation to undergo prenatal testing and to terminate their pregnancy to avoid bringing forth a child with a disability, because it was immoral to subject a child to the kind of suffering he or she would have to endure."
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Ping.
The burdens of children are a gift from God.
Yes, to the Left, this baby is sub-human and not deserving of his right to life. They know best who should live or die, dontchaknow.
there are a lot of them out there our extended family acquired one at www.reecesrainbow.com
Mixed feelings on the column (although LOL @ the peanut allergy) as a mother with a “disabled” child.
My son competes in Special Olympics, and I cannot get through a competition without tearing up. It is touching to see how excited and proud the athletes are. It’s also one of the only sporting events where you hear parents rooting for other kids to that degree.
Victor Frankl urged us to find meaning in everything that happens in our lives. (He was a Jewish Psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust in a Nazi death camp).
Once our friends on the left have killed God in their own lives, nothing has meaning or purpose, leaving them free to be just as callous and selfish as the presidential candidate who thinks that a baby is punishment.
True story: Doctor scheduled the test for Downs Syndrome on my five month pregnant belly. I declined. Was looked at like I had lost my marbles. I said, “What does it matter, I’m not aborting it either way” and was still looked at like I had lost my mind. See, as a student from 2nd grade until graduation, I had worked in the handicap room and fell in love with many kids who had Downs Syndrome. The idea of killing one of them just because of who they were was foreign to me. I could *almost* see it if they had no brain or something as severe as that, but just to have this disorder was insane to me.
So after a 30 minute discussion, I finally conceded to having the test so I could prepare if I needed to. I didn’t need to, but I never called and got the result either. I decided after having the blood drawn that I didn’t want to know because it would just upset me for the last four months of my pregnancy.
Doctors are encouraging abortions for down syndrome babies.
And from my work with them, they are the angels of this world as most are just the sweetest, most loving people ever.
Thank you for posting that as I am having typical 12 year old girl issues with my daughter right now and I needed to read that. As much as I wanted children, I hate to think “Why did I do this?” at times. But I’m human and I do think that sometimes. Especially when my sweet little girl is replaced with an alien psychopath. haha
While I have never ‘worked with’ a Down Syndrome individual - child or adult - I worked within a mental health center where there was a day program for training people - many with Down - for jobs they would be able to handle in the work force.
These people were happy, never miss an opportunity to chat with everyone - and were thrilled to be learning an occupation which would bring in some extra cash and self-esteem.
We in the ‘normal’ world could learn much from their gratitude over life itself and they put us to shame with their simple acceptance which they rarely view as a handicap but rather a special place in society.
I often took my coffee breaks in their center to see the jobs they were learning, the work they were producing and
was amazed at the skill level they insisted upon before feeling they were ‘up to it’. I always came away from time with them feeling uplifted.
The Palins will soon know their good fortune.
not funny...
We are all carrying a large load of degenerative genetic defects of varying degrees of severity and expression. Many are recessive, or trivial in their effects, but the bottom line is we are all debilitated compared to optimal genes/phenotypes. And the problem gets worse with every generation (natural selection can't select 'more fit' or 'as fit' individuals because there are _no_ such individuals in each generation, compared to their parents).
So, for example, it is comical for a near-sighted, diabetic Ivy League prof who is due to die in a few years from cancer caused by a genetic flaw, to sit in judgment over an otherwise healthy Down Syndrome child who is much more of a blessing on the world due to their smiles, kindness and gentle ways, and who flat out may be much more genetically healthy on the whole.
We don't have the detailed genetic knowledge to evaluate every person to know just how 'healthy' their genes are on the whole, nor do we have the wisdom to make that judgment, nor (most importantly) has that authority of life and death been delegated to us by God. Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword, and that applies to those who start playing God and making judgments about who they think should live and die.
As I stated before on this forum,I will play the hand that God dealt. Would I dip her into the waters at Lourdes. Never.
You are very wrong.
I work for a company that has several subdivisions that deal with special needs kids, especially in education and adapted physical ed.
It is amazing some of the lengths that are required to help these kids, but the rewards are plentiful.
No, I would never dip my 13 year old son into Lourdes, either. Actually, there was an essay about that a few years ago...or maybe it was in a Chicken Soup book. A woman took her special needs son to Lourdes and then decided he didn’t need healing...and that was the miracle that happened at Lourdes.
For all the challenges, I do have to say that there are some huge benefits to not having a typical teenage boy in the house! (But I didn’t dodge much of a bullet, because God rewarded me with three girls to make up for it. LOL) And yes at the Halloween and Christmas. He always knows what he wants to be that year at Halloween to the detriment of his poor sewing grandma. (Last year was an elephant..for a 5’4 12 year old!) And of course, Santa still exists!
I also had amniocentesis with my first pregnancy at age 37. Perhaps it was the time, or the fact that the testing was done at Georgetown University Hospital, but we told the screening doctor in no uncertain terms that we were not about to abort a Downs Syndrome baby, while he simultaneously assured us that there was no way Georgtown would provide the abortion.
The only reason for having the test and getting the results was to provide the time that even Gov Palin admitted she needed to prepare herself for the reality of having and raising a Downs Syndrome baby. With a ‘high risk’ pregnancy, I do think it helps to know what lies ahead.
I thought the column was good. And I think one reason the abortion crowd is so viscerally against Palin is that she has given a face to that “lump of protoplasm” abortion proponents say is worthless. I will look forward to seeing Trig grow up in the limelight.
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