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The Unborn Down Syndrome Refugee Crisis
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The Unborn Down Syndrome Refugee Crisis

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by on Nov 24, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Those in Need
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The daily headlines are filled with stories about the refugee crisis spreading across the globe. Tensions are high as governments assess the security risk of admitting groups of these displaced citizens, and the vetting and screening processes for refugees is under intense scrutiny. A refugee is defined as “a person who flees for refuge or […]

A Child Is Never a Burden
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A Child Is Never a Burden

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by on Mar 12, 2015 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Parenting
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The stories of heroic mothers rarely appear on the nightly news, even when they include prominent figures like Genevieve Shaw Brown, Travel and Lifestyle Editor for ABC News. Genevieve recently wrote about her infant son, William Michael Brown, who has Down syndrome. The Browns knew prior to his birth that he would be born with […]

Down Syndrome Does Not Make Life Disposable
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Down Syndrome Does Not Make Life Disposable

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by on Oct 23, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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The Holy Father’s universal prayer intention for September was, “That the mentally disabled may receive the love and help they need for a dignified life.” This is such a timely prayer. In recent weeks there has been a steady drumbeat to dehumanize and marginalize those with mental challenges, especially those with Down syndrome. For example, […]

Including People With Downs
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Including People With Downs

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by on Aug 26, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Those in Need
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A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news blog featured a story about A new line of clothing for people with Downs Syndrome has been launched. Karen Bowersox of Mentor OH, has developed a clothing line specifically for people with the condition. Being an advocate for people with disabilities, I took note of the story. It’s not […]

Our Children Radiate the Joy of the Gospel
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Our Children Radiate the Joy of the Gospel

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by on Jun 19, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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I was recently reading about an upcoming conference at the Vatican entitled “The Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” to implement the Holy Father’s new apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel”. The keynote speaker is Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche communities, a group of homes for the disabled where their gifts are cherished. For a […]

A Market for Disability: Down Syndrome and the Economic Imagination
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A Market for Disability: Down Syndrome and the Economic Imagination

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by on Jun 04, 2014 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, On the Job, The Social Order
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In a powerful profile of his son Jamie, a young man with Down syndrome, Michael Be?rube? explores some of the key challenges that those with disabilities face when trying to enter the workforce: The first time I talked to Jamie about getting a job, he was only 13. But I thought it was a good idea to […]

Down Syndrome Discovery Has Implications for Human Genetic Engineering
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Down Syndrome Discovery Has Implications for Human Genetic Engineering

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by on Apr 29, 2014 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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The 21st human chromosome is the smallest of all our chromosomes. It contains a few hundred genes and is only 1% of our total DNA. As most people know, an extra chromosome 21 causes Down Syndrome. What most people did not know, until research published this week, is that tiny chromosome has an effect across […]

Praise the Lord and Pass the Forceps
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Praise the Lord and Pass the Forceps

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by on Mar 05, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Secular humanists like to sneer at religious folk for our stubborn insistence upon seeing God’s hand at work in the world. We call “providence” what the materialist sees as a random unfolding of events. We see a blessing where the nonbeliever sees nothing more than the mundane workings of physics or biology. This mentality has […]

Save the Pandas <em>and</em> Down Syndrome
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Save the Pandas and Down Syndrome

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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One of the casualties during the recent Government shutdown was the Washington DC Zoo Panda Cam: “The National Zoo announced that all its live zoo cams, including the one trained on the zoo’s 5-week-old panda cub, will go dark.”  The Panda Cam allows viewers to watch the activities of Giant Pandas Mei Xiang and Tian […]

Good News About Down Syndrome
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Good News About Down Syndrome

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by on Nov 04, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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It was one of the most heartwarming moments of the 2013 baseball season. On April 18, after a pep-talk from his “best friend and greatest batboy,” Cincinnati Reds third baseman Todd Frazier ripped a two-run homer to center field off John Maine, extending the Reds lead to 11-1 over the Miami Marlins in the sixth […]

Why I Should Move to North Dakota
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Why I Should Move to North Dakota

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by on Sep 14, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Parenting
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I don’t have a paying job at this time, but I am very busy. Even though I no longer homeschool and my girls are over ten, my house is messy. I spend most of my day on Facebook and Twitter. Why? Christina, my daughter, is growing up in a world where no one invites her […]

Rosary Runner: Running for Life
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Rosary Runner: Running for Life

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by on Sep 11, 2013 in Featured, Health & Fitness, Those in Need
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“Running for Their Lives” (Columbia Magazine, December 2012), chronicles the founding and purpose of LIFE Runners, the largest international running group dedicated to Pro-Life causes.  The founders of the group are both members of the Knights of Columbus and Lt. Colonels in the United States Air Force. They began praying together as they were training […]

Focusing on Prenatal <em>Abilities</em> -- The Womb Classroom
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Focusing on Prenatal Abilities — The Womb Classroom

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by on Sep 09, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Education, Featured, Those in Need
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In 2003 my beautiful daughter Chloe was born with a diagnosis of Down syndrome, and I must admit my family was filled with fear, anxiety and uncertainty about Chloe’s future. At the time I was in my 20th year as a Police Officer, and I had no knowledge of supports for children like Chloe. When […]

Extra Chromosome Silenced in Down Syndrome Cells
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Extra Chromosome Silenced in Down Syndrome Cells

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by on Jul 24, 2013 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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Amazing news was announced in the field of gene therapy last week. Scientists in Massachusetts have taken the cells of a person with Down Syndrome and have silenced the extra 21st chromosome in those cells. The Guardian has the story: Scientists have corrected the genetic fault that causes Down’s syndrome – albeit in isolated cells […]

The Trial the Media Missed - Death Sentence Commuted!
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The Trial the Media Missed – Death Sentence Commuted!

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by on Jul 22, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Those in Need
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For the past several weeks the nation has been focused and absorbed with the George Zimmerman trial. This trial ended on 7/13/13 when a “Not Guilty” verdict was rendered by the jury after much evidence and testimony was presented in the courtroom. Another trial was also occurring this past week involving an unborn child who […]

"We Are Here!" How One Small Voice Can Make a Tremendous Impact!
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“We Are Here!” How One Small Voice Can Make a Tremendous Impact!

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by on Jul 11, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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In the Dr. Seuss classic “Horton Hears a Who,” Horton the elephant struggles and fights desperately to prove to his culture that there is a tiny hidden world (Whoville) filled with priceless individuals in an insignificant dust speck. The overwhelming majority believe Horton is crazy, and they try to destroy the dust speck with the […]

Book Review: <i>The Things Lily Knew</i>
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Book Review: The Things Lily Knew

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by on May 21, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, On Books
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Few novels are rich enough in characters to become a series, but the Lily Trilogy belongs in this rare company. The characters around Lily, a woman with Down syndrome who has a profound affect on the world around her, are so vividly drawn, so realistic and multifaceted, that they become friends with whom you want […]

How One Life Can Change Everything
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How One Life Can Change Everything

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by on Apr 02, 2013 in Featured, On Books, Parenting
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In every person’s life, there should be a person who, as C.S. Lewis says, “hears the song in your heart and can sing it back to you.” Through this devoted love, one overcomes fears, hurts and selfishness, and the soul expands. For the Lovely family in Sherry Boas’ fictional Lily series, this person is the […]

Book Review: <i>Brilliant Souls</i>
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Book Review: Brilliant Souls

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by on Mar 22, 2013 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, On Books, Parenting
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Stephanie Wincik is a registered nurse who doesn’t consider herself pro-life, or subscribe to any particular religious belief, yet after 25 years of working with the medically fragile disabled patients, she stumbled upon an article which galvanized her into writing a pro-life book, Making the Case for Life, which has in its enhanced second edition, […]

Remembering Jerome Lejeune
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Remembering Jerome Lejeune

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by on Mar 21, 2013 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Live in Christ
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Clara Lejeune Gaymard has a “servant of God” as a father: Jerome Lejeune, the French geneticist who discovered the cause of Down syndrome. Lejeune, who died in 1994 at age 67, was outspoken against legal abortion. He was named the first president of the Pontifical Academy for Life shortly before his death by Pope John […]

The War on Jesus Christ
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The War on Jesus Christ

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by on Dec 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Live in Christ
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During this season of Miracles we often hear and read about the “War on Christmas” and efforts to remove and erase all references of Jesus Christ from our culture. This determination seems to increase each year, and in the near future children may lose all knowledge of the True Meaning of Christmas. As a professional […]

The Silent Repeat of Eugenic History
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The Silent Repeat of Eugenic History

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by on Sep 07, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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This week I read a very disturbing article titled “New prenatal test is bringing eugenics back to Germany” , and I could not help but think of the famous quote from American philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” This month a new prenatal blood test for Down […]

Movie Review: <i>The Memory Keeper's Daughter</i>
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Movie Review: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

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by on Sep 04, 2012 in Featured, On TV and Movies, Parenting
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a Lifetime Original Movie available on DVD. It is based on the best-selling novel by the same name by Kim Edwards. Starring Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol, and Emily Watson, it offers a very positive portrayal of a girl with Down Syndrome.  In a world in which the majority of children […]

The Morality of Testing for Down Syndrome
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The Morality of Testing for Down Syndrome

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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A response to the many queries I’ve been receiving about this topic: The technological genie is out of the bottle. We live in the age of Molecular Biology, where diagnostics (including those for Down Syndrome) are becoming much more accurate, sensitive, and inexpensive. It’s a blessed thing to behold. That may come as a surprise […]