Here is a great story:
Never has the selection of a homecoming queen sent so many tears falling so freely.
Kristin Pass, an 18-year-old senior with Down syndrome, became Aledo High School's homecoming queen Friday to a joyous standing ovation and the flutter of a thousand tissues on a remarkable night for an amazing young woman.
Her grandfather, Dr. David Campbell of Corsicana, escorted her onto the field and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek as Kristin joined eight other young women in the Homecoming Court to await the results of the vote, cast by the 360-plus members of Aledo High's senior class.
Then came the announcement...
Here is the question I would ask BO tonight at the debate: Mr. Obama, why do you think we see so fewer people with Down's Syndrome these days than say, 20 years ago?
(HT: Relevant)
7 comments:
Zach,
I'm afraid that McCain will not touch this issue with Obama. I believe that McCain is pro-life. I believe that he would appoint pro-life judges to the Supreme Court (as Bush did, for all of his faults, and it led to the outlawing of partial-birth abortion), and that is a big part of why I plan to vote for him.
However, on the issue of abortion, McCain doesn't seem to want to touch it during the debates. What is it? A fear of being too controversial? I don't know-- but it saddens and disappoints me, even as I do plan to still vote for McCain for the reasons above and a couple of other reasons.
What a beautiful photograph in this post! How tragic that most parents in the last thirty years who knew they were going to have babies with Down's Syndrome chose to abort those babies and deprive the world of such beauty! As Albert Mohler once memorably said, to God, a child with Down's Syndrome is more truly beautiful than an airbrushed "beauty queen"-- because the child is real, as God is real.
This story really touched me- while we were in the NICU with Jack, we got to know so many families with babies with birth defects- such beautiful, amazing children that the Lord created. And seeing the beauty in their faces and how they touched so many lives and brought many closer to God, I can't imagine them not being there. Thanks. :)
Melissa
Good for this gal! What a great story.
Unfortunately, up to 80% of these precious kids are being aborted when AFP blood screenings come back positive for Down Syndrome to expectant mothers early in their pregnancies.
We had an AFP screening come back bad, too, once. Jillian was supposed to be severely handicapped or even die early after birth. She's 100% healthy.
Even if she wouldn't have been, how can a society fail to see the blessing that special needs kids/people bring to us??
I'm a "special needs" man of 35 who was saved by God, from His wrath, and brought into His family at the age of 29. I have Cerebral Palsy and was born the year that abortion was legalized in the United States. Even at that time, God's mercy was active in my life by the fact that I was not aborted. Of course, at that time, the medical community didn't have all of the screenings that exist today to "check" for physical or mental disabilities.
I weep inside to think of all of the unborn babies with disabilities who have been aborted *because* of those screenings-- and even more, oftentimes, because of the parents' sinful selfishness that was not willing to look beyond their own "convenience" in refusing to take on the responsibility of a child with a disability.
Just as lamentable is the attitude that it would somehow be "better" and "more merciful" to abort disabled unborn babies than to let them live. When we try to be "more merciful" than God, we end up with atrocities like the mass abortion of Down's Syndrome babies. Oh God, protect us all from a supposed "mercy" that would commit sin against You and Your gift of life!
"However, on the issue of abortion, McCain doesn't seem to want to touch it during the debates."
- McCain certainly touched on it as last night's debate.
Yes, McCain did, and I thank God that he did! He also said, though, that he would not use a judge's position on abortion as a "litmus test" for whether or not he would appoint that judge to the Supreme Court. Then, later, he said that a "constitutionalist" judge (the *only* kind of judge that he would appoint to the SC, thank God!) would never vote to uphold "Roe vs. Wade!"
John, John, why couldn't you be *crystal-clear* in your expression of your pro-life convictions, as regards Supreme Court appointments?? He *has* these convictions, and he *will* act according *to* them, but he could have been much more clear in his expression of them, as they relate to the Supreme Court, in last night's debate.
I'm still voting for McCain though-- his "not expressed as clearly as it could have been, but historically acted upon" pro-life position is definitely preferable to the *clearly expressed and acted upon* "pro-legal-choice to murder unborn babies" position which Obama holds.
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