In pro-life cyberspace…
Sheila Harper, who leads the post-abortive group SaveOne, wrote, “My blood pressure is through the roof, my hands are shaking, and my head hurts.” Read why on Catholic Pro-Life Committee’s blog.
Mark Crutcher’s new post begins by asking, “How would you like to ask the pro-choice mob a question that is guaranteed to have them jumping around like worms on a hot rock? Well, read on.” Well, read on.
Would it be ok if a restaurant said, “”Only 10% of the food I serve contains cyanide”? That’s the equivalent of what Chicago Planned Parenthood is saying about its new mill. Read Curt Jester’s thoughts here. [HT: Dawn Patrol]
JivinJehoshaphat quotes the pro-abort/post-abort Australian Health Services Commissioner, who strangely tried to persuade legislators her way with, “That doesn’t mean that I don’t have any regrets or that it wasn’t awful….”
Barbara Curtis has two posts at Prolifeblogs.com spotlighting an extraordinary story in the September issue of Vanity Fair about famed playwright Arthur Miller’s “missing act” – his son Danny, who was born with Down syndrome and who Miller had institutionalized at birth and never publicly acknowledged. Miller wrote “Death of a Salesman” and was married briefly to Marilyn Monroe. The story is extraordinary in its content and also that Vanity Fair told it.
Christina at Real Choice is right that the video she has posted is “amazing.” It shows how small babies can be taught to flip on their backs in water. Drowning is the most common cause of postborn death in many states.
Aug.18, 2007 8:59 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Hey, thanks for the mention!
Mark Crutcher: Should it be legal for a woman to kill her unborn child solely because there is genetic evidence that the child may turn out to be gay?
Hi Mark, I’m Pro-Choice and to me it makes no difference if gay or not is the deal. I am okay with “elective” abortion up to viability. Most states have restrictions at 24 or 26? weeks, and that’s okay with me.
After that, whether the fetus has that certain gene or group of genes or not, I see it as getting increasingly similar to a full-term born baby, in that it’s developing some mental awareness, sentience, the ability to suffer, have emotions, etc.
I hope you don’t mind me answering some of your points from your blog here. I already post three places and am spread thin. Well, heck, I guess the least I could do is comment at your blog too.
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The result is that, for example, in America today over 90 percent of babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb.? In fact, legalized abortion has so decayed American society that abortion is now the default position for women carrying a child with even the most insignificant abnormalities.? In our brave new world, if a new mom delivers a handicapped baby she better be prepared to routinely answer the question, ?Didn?t your doctor tell you about this while you were still pregnant???
I am not saying that Down’s Syndrome people are “bad” nor any less valuable than anybody else, necessarily. I do understand how some people would want not to have Down’s kid, though. And I also understand how some other people would not dream of ending a pregnancy just because of the Down’s genes. You may think it as “insignificant,” but whether a given person or couple will feel that way is a question.
Doug
From “quote of the day”:
[The psychiatric] profession refuses to recognize post-abortion syndrome as a true Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or actually, a syndrome/disorder at all. PTSD’s definition has been loosened over the years to include any type of trauma “outside the range of natural human experience.” This includes hurricanes, child abuse, bullying, harassment, and even insensitive obstetric care.
If the definition of PTSD is that loose, then I’d think it certainly applies to women suffering to a certain extent after having abortions. “Syndrome” – it’s obviously argued a lot, but that some post-traumatic stress is there for some women who have had abortions isn’t really in doubt.
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But [the author of the book Unprotected] has a quote I think is genius. She says, “Will someone please explain to me, why does psychology, in its quest to identify and counsel every victim of possible child abuse, sexual harassment, or hurricanes, leave no stone unturned, and then go berserk at the suggestion that maybe, maybe, some – not all, but some – women and men hurt for a long, long time after abortion, and they too need our help?”
Does “psychology” really do that? Who says that psychologists really feel that way in general?
Doug
Can I just say that the video of the babies floating was amazing! I was crying (yeah I’m emotional like that) at the thought that an infant could be taught something like that.
I thought it was interesting in the Unprotected book that she had to treat students for PTSD just from WATCHING the coverage on Hurricane Katrina and here I get women who can’t even mention the word abortion when referring to their own but they don’t have pyschological issues. ????
Doug: “I do understand how some people would want not to have Down’s kid, though.”
Doug, it is very disrespectful to refer to a child with DS as a “Down’s kid.” The more respectful term would be “a baby with Down syndrome,” “a child with Down syndrome,” “a man with Down syndrome,” etc. Thanks.
These mothers only THINK they don’t want a child with DS. Neither did I. Thankfully I did not have prenatal testing and didn’t find out until my daughter’s birth. Having her as a daughter is undoubtedly one of the greatest joys of my life. It is not something that can be explained with words. I pity the mothers who have aborted their babies because they had DS. They will never know……
Jill, THANK YOU for posting Barbara Curtis’ blog. What a great article that Vanity Fair article was. It was very sad, to be sure, but what a tribute to Daniel Miller. Poor Arthur Miller did not know the jewel that God had placed in his life. Maybe he did toward the end, I don’t know.
Doug, I second Ellie’s comments. I have a daughter who has Trisomy 21, and realize what Arthur Miller could have had, if he had given his son the chance, he might have been a kinder, more patient man.
If parents are so certain they can’t raise a child with Down sydrome, there are lists of parents waiting to adopt their child. I know of four mothers besides Barbara Curtis who have adopted children with T 21 and are the richer for it.