(Prolifer)ations 3-22-11
by Kelli
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- Moral Outcry reports on the increasingly hostile societal attitudes toward disabled children, and the belief that children with Down Syndrome are better off institutionalized – or aborted – than placed with loving adoptive families.
- Barbara at MommyLife shares a friend’s story about her son, Austin, who was diagnosed with Down Syndrome at 2 weeks of age.
- SuzyB notes the increasing trend of denying life-saving support to babies born before 23 weeks:
Not only do these guidelines hand over the power of life and death to medical professionals, but they undermine the value of any and all lives deemed not worth saving.
To deny treatment to a newborn baby on the basis of a guess or a statistic that the baby’s life will be difficult is tantamount to saying that disabled life is no life at all.
- Julie Grimstad at ALL discusses “physician orders for life-sustaining treatment,” or “POLST,” the latest protocols in the right-to-die movement designed to “limit the use of life-saving technology, life-sustaining treatment and even ordinary care, such as the provision of food and water,” primarily for those in hospitals and nursing homes.
- Deborah Mullan at ProWomanProLife reflects on the post-feminist/post-Pill generation’s gradual shift in values regarding modesty and sex for their daughters’ generation.
- Coming Home describes Planned Parenthood’s assault on our public health and on the innocence of our children through explicit sex education and misinformation.
- At Bryan Kemper’s blog, Andy Moore points out the prevalence of pro-abortion violence (rarely reported in the MSM), concluding pro-aborts frequently “resort to verbal and physical abuse” because “they are frustrated, and [are] ultimately unable to combat our consistent presentation of truth and science.”
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Mar.22, 2011 4:30 pm |
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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.
I think the pro-life movement should make a major effort to educate the public about some of the things the medical community is doing in the name of mercy. The first story I remember hearing that really disturbed me is when Reagan was president and a couple decided not to allow their baby with Down Syndrome to have a feeding tube put in. Without it the baby could not live. So they made their decision and allowed the baby to die. What somebody needs to do is buy some TV time and do a documentary on the pro-death climate that is trying to get a foot hold in our health care system. Murdock is suppose to be a conservative why doesn’t he dedicate air time to pro-life issues.
Get rid of Planned Parenthood. I worry the republicans will cave on Planned Parenthood and take NPR instead. That would absolutely suck. What they need to offer as a compromise is to leave the TitleX funding but only spend it on entities that DO NOT perform abortion. Spend it on CPC’s and real women’s “health” clinics instead. Otherwise not only will they have the blood on baby’s on their hands; they also have the anger of the pro-life people that voted for them. Scott Brown can kiss my ass. I’d rather have a liberal Democrat in office.
I hope Scott Brown gets a republican to run against him in the 2012 primary and a tea party challenger in the 2012 election.
Scott Brown was elected to do one thing – vote against ObamaCare. He did that. I don’t know why any of us expected anything more than that from him. Though I think he would also be much more likely to vote for an originalist nominee for the Supreme Court (or oppose a liberal activist nominee) than a Kennedy or a Coakley would be.
But it is plainly clear that the people of Massachusetts will only accept wretches as their representatives.
As a grown up premie, I am always appalled at news stories involving premies. I’m middle aged now and when I was born at 27 weeks, the technology was not as far advanced as today. The doctors told my mother terrible things about me: I’d have brain damage, I’d die, I’d never grow larger than 3-4 feet if I lived, I’d never walk, I’d never read or write.
Tell my old Sensei how I wasn’t supposed to walk, so how did I win a karate tournament when I was young? Tell them how tall I am now (pretty average, I’d say). I have an IQ over 118. And look weeee! I’m reading and writing. A baby they let die today might have grown up to be an awesome doctor, teacher, or astronaut.
the latest protocols in the right-to-die movement
I was recently at a baptism and heard a discussion among a group of 20 somethings. They were discussing, seriously, the need for our country to have suicide booths, regulated, clean places for the depressed to go to end their lives. After all, counseling, hospitalization, etc. costs money.
Unbelievable.
an acquaintance’s aunt was not checked when she went to the hospital with a fever. She is now on life- support. In Oregon. What is up with that state? Are there no churches, or is it something in the water?
Praxedes, THAT is horrifying. In fact, it passed horrifying about 10 miles back down the road.
Praxedes says:
March 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm
the latest protocols in the right-to-die movement
I was recently at a baptism and heard a discussion among a group of 20 somethings. They were discussing, seriously, the need for our country to have suicide booths, regulated, clean places for the depressed to go to end their lives. After all, counseling, hospitalization, etc. costs money.
Unbelievable.
Yes, at a baptism service….how sad
No, Praxedes. It’s far from unbelievable. It’s utterly predictable.
Once Judeo-Christian morality is chased from the public square, we revert to pre-Judeo-Christian barbarism.
It’s utterly predictable.