What Bella's dad taught a liberal....

Wow, listen to liberal Joe Klein on what Rick Santorum and Bella  taught him. 

"Rick and Karen decided to fight for Gabriel’s life, which nearly cost Karen her own, and they passionately embraced the child during his two hours on earth. They have spent the past three years caring for their daughter Isabella, whose genetic defect, trisomy 18, is an early-death sentence. “Almost 100% of trisomy 18 children are encouraged to be aborted,” Santorum told Schieffer. I am haunted by the smiling photos I’ve seen of Isabella with her father and mother, brothers and sisters. No doubt she struggles through many of her days — she nearly died a few weeks ago — but she has also been granted three years of unconditional love and the ability to smile and bring joy. Her tenuous survival has given her family a deeper sense of how precious even the frailest of lives are. All right, I can hear you saying, the Santorum family’s course may be admirable, but shouldn’t we have the right to make our own choices? Yes, I suppose. But I also worry that we’ve become too averse to personal inconvenience as a society—that we’re less rigorous parents than we should be, that we’ve farmed out our responsibilities, especially for the disabled, to the state—and I’m grateful to Santorum for forcing on me the discomfort of having to think about the moral implications of his daughter’s smile. "

Slate: Meet our brave new world....

 Slate magazine puts out a piece with a strange headline...

Rick Santorum, Meet My Son

"He has a degenerative disease that has left him blind, paralyzed, and increasingly nonresponsive. If I had known before he was born, I would have saved him from suffering....."

How would she save him....by ending his life as in abortion...I almost can't bear to type it but yes by killing him prenatally.

Routine prenatal tests did not detect his  condition so she  waived the more invasive tests. But had she known the extent of his disabilities  and talked to parents coping with these disabilities she would have chosen abortion. But then she makes these statements showing her disconnect in what the story is trying to portray ...

"I love my son more than any person in the world and his life is of utmost value to me. I don't regret a single minute of this parenting journey, even though I wake up every morning with my heart breaking, feeling the impending dread of his imminent death. This is one set of absolute truths."

No one doubts her need for support as she cares for her disabled son and her emotions can be expected to be in turmoil. Slate takes advantage of this to make the case they do and in my opinion using this woman and her son to advance their theology.

Then the woman tells us this about herself....

I was born with a physical deformity in the age before the evolution of advanced ultrasound technology that may have detected it. My mom did not have a choice about terminating her pregnancy, although when I was born and she was told that I might be retarded, that I might never walk, and that given these possibilities she might want to consider institutionalizing me, she probably wished she'd had the choice. 

She was born in 1974, one year after Roe vs. Wade. Abortion was legal and actually legal in some states prior to that.  None of those dire predictions turned out to be accurate but she laments her mother's lack of knowledge of prenatal testing so she could have chosen to abort her. Did you hear that...the dr. was wrong about all those dire predictions. Does her mother wish she had killed her????

"And I'd like you to meet me, as well, with my artificial leg and strong body and big, beautiful, complicated life full of friends and books and meaningful work and sex and all kinds of texture and heaps of subtlety and contradiction; in short, a full life. My mother made a choice without knowing she had one. I made a choice without having all the information. Neither choice is bad or good; neither is this one thing or the other."

Is anything good or bad...or is this our good friend...moral relativism as we have come to know it. This article is put out by Slate to accuse Rick Santorum of not being sensitive to the issues of raising disabled children. How strange since Karen and Rick Santorum are personally experiencing it with their daughter Bella and went through the tragedy with their son Gabriel. This article with it's focus on the hardship of raising a child with severe disabilities and imminent death is meant to use your emotions to suggest that prenatal testing is wonderful  so you can use it as a search and destroy  tactic and bring only perfect children into this brave new world. 

That Santorum would dare discuss the dangers and suggest that "all life is inherently valuable, no matter how compromised or of what limited quality" rankles them.

 The article doesn't like to hear that kind of talk...they support that the quality of life trumps the sanctity of human life and use this piece as a way to denigrate a candidate who dares bring up the sanctity of human life. 

With this type of thinking next we will be using prenatal tests to weed out those who are the wrong sex....whoops....already doing that. 

Hello, brave new world.... 

Sleeping with the enemy

 This  story caught my eye and what a sad story it is. This lady writes a pro choice blog but her story this time is personal. She reveals that she is going through a divorce as her husband has found another.....but to add insult to injury to make himself look less guilty, he divulges secrets about her that falls under the category of "it is non of their business "to family and friends. Isn't that what happens in the divorce process, in an effort to make yourself look less guilty you throw out all the dirt you can manufacture on the other party to justify your actions.  And what is equally sad is that the person you trusted with your secrets now has become the enemy who holds "classified information" about you.

But I digress......in this case her departing husband outed her on the fact that as a teenager she had an abortion which was forced on her by an hysterical mother. Every mother of a teen girl can relate. But even though she now devotes her life to writing a pro choice blog,  her post tells of the long term psychological consequences of this action even though it was forced upon her.

"To this day, I have PTSD and severe depression. When I turned eighteen, I moved away from her, and never spoke to her again. After an eleven-year estrangement, she died, while I was six months pregnant with my third child."

"Coercion and Forced abortions happen everyday." 

Today I will pray for Bella for healing. Healing from the betrayal and the loss. As she faces betrayal of her husband and the loss of a marriage, it reminds her of the loss of so many years ago and the betrayal at the hands of her mother who was supposed  to protect her in her hour of need. May she come to forgive her mother and her estranged husband so she can go on with her life free of bitterness.

Eduardo .....real men are pro life

 There is a "swoon" going on over at Jill Stanek's website over this most "hot commodity" Pro life men are real men...what can I say?  Here is a video of his own words re: his discovery of his mission.
From Jill Stanek.com

Eduardo Verástegui hosts L.A. benefit to open free pregnancy care medical center

This Sunday, May 23, actor, producer and human rights advocate Eduardo Verástegui will headline the first ever Latino United for Life Family Congress at the Los Angeles Convention Center from 8a to 7p.
"The funds raised... will be used to open a medical center in Los Angeles that provides free, high-quality care for pregnant women and their preborn babies," stated Verástegui in a press release.

"The Guadalupe Medical Center will be located in an area that has 10 abortion facilities. Therefore, our center will be an oasis of life in the midst of a desert of death," Verástegui continued....
The "special focus" of the center will be to "restor[e] honor and dignity to Latinos," according to the statement. More from the release:

The United for Life Congress [click on poster, right, to enlarge] is a project of Manto de Guadalupe, an international aid organization that promotes human dignity throughout the world and brings relief to those suffering extreme poverty. Manto de Guadalupe's includes building homes, delivering food and medicine, and providing lifesaving assistance to impoverished pregnant women.