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Posted on 07/21/2007 2:14:12 PM PDT by mome23kjnc
Can you help me get the word out FAST about a terrific contest that lets you have your prolife voice heard LOUD AND CLEAR by a company that has been a huge supporter of Planned Parenthood in the past? American Express was once boycotted by thousands of prolifers, who cut up their cards over the companies support of Planned Parenthood. They heard those voices, and stopped their support. Now, they need to hear us again.
American Express is running a campaign right now called "Members Project". The long and short of it is that they are asking members to vote for one of many deserving non-profit organizations - and National Down Syndrome Congress is one of them. NDSC has made it though the first couple of rounds; the next round of votes ends Sunday, and whittles the list from 25 down to 5. If you, or anyone you know is an American Express Cardholder (and you must be to do this), please, please consider going to membersproject.com and voting for NDSC.
The winner of this will receive up to 5 million dollars ($ amt depends on how many vote)! NDSC plans to use the money to fund a National campaign to educate the public about DS and show people with DS in a positive light. SO many people have no idea what their lives are really like. I can assure you, my daughter has a GREAT life. She is happy, funny, smart, and cute as a button. https://www.babiesonline.com/babies/c/ciarraspage/ you can see for yourselves, here.
SO many babies with DS are aborted, at least 90% of those prenatally diagnosed. Much of that stems from the fear of the unknown. If our kids had a public face, they would have a fighting chance to be seen as beautiful, unique people to treasure. Could you please help us? I dont think there are any other contestants literally fighting to be given the chance to live. We need about 3000 votes in order to make it. We need your help. Many of the babies killed by partial birth abortion are babies just like my daughter, Ciarra. We have the opportunity to show the world that she is a beautiful, vibrant, wonderful addition to society. Please help us get the word out?
We are SO close to winning this thing, but we need more votes. It matters, I promise, it really does. If we can win, we can start to show the world that the face of DS has changed. It is a new world, a GOOD world. Please take a minute and vote. Remember, you have to be an American Express card holder. If you can send a copy of this post to everyone you know who might help, that would be awesome. And THANK YOU for your time. Oh, PS The campaign is listed under "Other" and is called "Awareness Can Build A Family."
You can find more info about it at http://www.membersproject.com/home.action
Thanks, Michelle & Ciarra, age 9, with DS.
ack..I was trying to post this in the abortion forum. Sorry for the double post.
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Guess what....? My husband pinged me to your post on this thread. I never would have seen it otherwise. We have voted for the “Awareness Can Build a Family” project - one of several involving Down Syndrome.
On a personal note: Years ago my cousin learned she was going to have a Down Syndrome baby. She and her husband were well fixed financially and had planned to have several children. This shocking news could have devastated her. Instead, she said “Well, I guess God knew what He was doing when He chose to bless us with this special child. SHe will never have to be institutionalized. We have the means to see to it she has the best care possible in our ho me and I will personally oversee every aspect of her development education. I am delighted to be given stewardship of such a human treasure!”
I am still amazed and proud of her for seeing the silver lining and for stepping up to the plate to give this baby a real life. What a difference attitude makes! By the way, you exemplify the same loving and self sacrificing attitude she does. You are to be commended. Your little treasure is a living doll!
Guess what....? My husband pinged me to your post on this thread. I never would have seen it otherwise. We have voted for the “Awareness Can Build a Family” project - one of several involving Down Syndrome.
On a personal note: Years ago my cousin learned she was going to have a Down Syndrome baby. She and her husband were well fixed financially and had planned to have several children. This shocking news could have devastated her. Instead, she said “Well, I guess God knew what He was doing when He chose to bless us with this special child. SHe will never have to be institutionalized. We have the means to see to it she has the best care possible in our ho me and I will personally oversee every aspect of her development education. I am delighted to be given stewardship of such a human treasure!”
I am still amazed and proud of her for seeing the silver lining and for stepping up to the plate to give this baby a real life. What a difference attitude makes! By the way, you exemplify the same loving and self sacrificing attitude she does. You are to be commended. Your little treasure is a living doll!
Thank you for posting this. It gives me the opportunity to post one of my favorite writings. It was written by the mother of child with downs syndrome, but really is applicable to any family with a disabled child:
WELCOME TO HOLLAND
by Emily Perl Kingsley
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this...
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills...Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away...because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But...if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things...about Holland.
© 1987, by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the author.
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I’m grateful every day that I was born into a pro-life family. When my mother went in for some screening her obstetrician suggested, the idiot technician said that I probably had severe Down’s (can you even tell the severity from one of those tests?) and suggested she get an abortion.
Fortunately she refused, and some months later I was born completely healthy.
We have a 9 year old son named Lance. And yes he does have Down Syndrome! When we found out in Yuma,Az, we were very heavly pressured to abort him from my wife’s Dr. But we had talked about it and had decided yearly in our marriage[we started our family late in life] that if we had a child with a handicap that we would raise them as best we could.
Anyway Lance is a high speed,low drag, high maintence kid. I need jet powered roller blades just to keep up with that child. He loves to run [may end up being a high school cross country runner] all over our 5 acres of property and I need to use my 3 wheeler to round him up at the end of the day. He is also Dad’s little buddy. Whereever I go he has to be there and help me [whether I need it or not! lol :) ] So when we run across the folks who say that there should be a choice, we show Lance and say here is our choice, a bright and very loving little boy!
I can’t find them on the list. Any suggestions?
Okay, I think I found it. Awareness Can Build A Family. That’s the headline it was under. I voted! :o) God Bless you and your family!
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Sad. Hitler and Darwin at work. I’ve known a fair number of children and adults with Downs Syndrome, and they were all wonderful, happy people who were a joy to their parents. It’s as if God compensates for the mental lack with other strengths.
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