Culture of Death Fears Palin Example
September 14th, 2008 at 05:49am Mark Noonan
This is, well, nauseating:
U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s loving and highly-publicized acceptance of her Down’s syndrome child Trig has some Canadian doctors worried that her example may lead to mothers shunning abortion after diagnosis of Down’s syndrome.
According to the Globe and Mail, Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), is worried that Palin’s decision to give birth to Trig, despite knowing about his condition, could influence other women in similar situations, but who lack the financial and emotional support that Palin had access to.
“The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,” he said.
Citing his concern for women’s “freedom to choose”, Lalonde said that popular examples about women like Palin, who choose not to kill their unborn children, could have negative effects on women and their families, reported the Globe.
However, Lalonde said that doctors in Canada give balanced information about the consequences of the condition to pregnant women with a Down’s child, and that women are not necessarily encouraged to abort. “We offer the woman the choice. We try to be as unbiased as possible,” Lalonde said. “We’re coming down to a moral decision and we all know moral decisions are personal decisions.”
Krista Flint, executive director of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, however, disagreed with Lalonde’s claim that pregnant women are given balanced information about the condition: “Many of the country’s medical professionals only give messages of fear to parents who learn their baby will be born with the genetic condition.”
Only in the sick, twisted world of the culture of death could there be a concern that having a Down’s Syndrome baby - as opposed to killing it - might provide a “bad example”.
I really don’t know what to say here - I don’t know, at this moment, how I am to love those in the culture of death who would think such things…it is, some times, very hard to do so, though I must do it. Why on Earth would anyone want to be a person who is worried that a woman might not choose to abort? How do you get like that? On second thought, I don’t even want to know….
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Foreign Affairs, Life Issues, Popular Culture, Religion, Republicans, Social Issues
6 Comments
1. Joe Bananas..in Pajamas | September 14th, 2008 at 6:17 am
This is one of the reason why I loathe liberal thinking, but you know what?
This kind of reporting only convinces more of the loony base and does nothing to change the rationale swinging voter, thankfully they are more sane.
2. js | September 14th, 2008 at 8:25 am
saving lives and healing is what a doctor is supposed to do…not recommend taking life because its inconvenient…
this falls right back to the core issue…if a human child has the right to live…life begins at conception…irregardless of downs or any other potential illness/defect…does the right to life end because you are less than perfect is a doctors eyes….
3. kjstrouble | September 14th, 2008 at 8:55 am
I may be pro-choice, but the idea that Sarah Palin is a negative role model because she chose to have her last child? That is truly sick. One wonders what other conditions Canadian doctors use as excuses to encourage abortion? I still want someone to come up with a way to remove the fetus from the mother who does not want it and allow it to mature in an artificial womb for adoption by a person or family that does want the baby.
4. CanadianObserver | September 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am
The daughter of a friend of mine, after being told the baby she was expecting had down’s syndrome and encouraged to terminate the pregnancy by her doctors, elected not to have an abortion.
This woman, it may interest you to know, is a left-wing liberal.
The baby girl she gave birth to is now a year old and is thriving in this loving family.
The choice was hers; she made a personal decision and went against the advice of her doctors. Her political views were irrelevant.
5. hermie | September 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
So if I understand this right…liberals are afraid that pregnant women will be ‘influenced’ by Palin’s example.
The same people that say that women should be allowed to make their own decisions, now say that they can’t because they are too stupid to think for themselves?
6. Jeremiah | September 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Any way one wants to look at this situation, the underlying factor that must be remembered is that God is always in control, and He knows who His people are.
We decide how we are to be used in this world, as directs us for His purpose and He gains all the glory from it, regardless of what we may choose.
Two different examples in the earth that we can mention as can be used for two very different purposes - One is dirt, the other is gold and silver. Dirt is used to be tossed and thrown about and is of little value at attaining much in progress. Gold is used to attain much wealth in material terms. In other words, some for noble purposes and others for ignoble purposes. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes.
Mr. Lalonde it can be rightfully said is using himself for ignoble purposes, or, just simply, dirt.
This is becoming, and as the Bible foretells it in the latter days will become increasingly evident, as we read in 2 Timothy…
2 Timothy 3:1-9
‘But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God–having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth–men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.’
We have opportunities out there, folks, and let us use those opportunities for gold, and no, I’m not talking about your average shiny metallic object that we buy and sell, but the winning of souls for the kingdom of God. And thus, our inheritance will be great, as we are glorified by the power of Him who took great joy in Creating us.
God bless!