[8mmMauser]

Today is Mother's Day.

I would hope Terri's Listers take a moment for prayer today, for their own moms and for those heroic moms in the world and those in need of prayers and guidance.

And today, perhaps we could devote a moment of our prayer energy to Governor Minner of Delaware, that she act with her heart as a mom in finding mercy for Lauren Richardson. May we include Edith Tower, Lauren's mom, as a mom in need of prayers and guidance that she might be touched to do the right thing.

As we face the ugliness shoved at us by such as Planned Parenthood, may we temper that with reminders of truly heroic figures, like Governor Palin of Alaska who faced the birth of a child with Down's syndrome and did the right thing by Our Lord. Our days on earth are limited indeed, but eternity is a whole long time.

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[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre update...

Some don't have moms. May we never forget. I shudder to think how things would have gone for mother and child in Massachusetts had not Haleigh received the benefit of the limelight. I have yet to find whether Gail Garlinger, the new advocate, is a mom, but in her role, she is indeed.

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Stoneham - On April 28, Massachusetts Judge Gail Garinger began her new job as the state’s first child advocate.

An employee of the Juvenile Court since 1995, Judge Garinger served for seven years as First Justice for Middlesex County before being appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick. In her new position, she will investigate and oversee the state’s handling of children in state custody and those receiving state services.

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The agency has come under fire in recent years due to several high-profile abuse cases. Eleven-year-old Haleigh Poutre was beaten by her adoptive mother and stepfather and fell into a coma after DSS had received and dismissed at least 14 prior reports of suspected abuse. Four-year-old Rebecca Riley died of an overdose of psychiatric medications, allegedly given to her by her parents, six months after DSS dismissed a therapist’s concerns she was being overmedicated...........

Tisei: New child advocate faces challenges... By Sen. Richard Tisei/From the State House

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[Sun]

“Governor Palin of Alaska who faced the birth of a child with Down’s syndrome” is on Senator McCain’s very short list, I have read.

[floriduh voter]

Let Lauren Live. Lauren’s a mother too.

[PhilDragoo]

I just wrote Governor Minner in response to your request on this thread.

The video toward the end shows the tantalizing struggle to grasp those threads released during the overdose.

We are currently warehousing hundreds of thousands for violent crimes, giving them clean bedding, more than adequate nourishment, all manner of perquisites.

Surely we ought grant this single citizen guilty of no crime the bare minimum civil right of life.

We've been through all of that reference to our Declaration of Independence, the granting to all men by their Creator of Life. . . .

Of course this is a broader battle against self-styled secular humanism, which becomes more and more the welcomer of the Islamic grim reaper, scything down all of which some dark disapproving Allah disapproves.

Obama stumped for Odinga the promoter of sharia law--and called a baby a "punishment"--

And he voted against the "born-alive act" making him a murderer.

With these people, Mao is great--pay no attention to the 60 million sacrificed on his funeral pyre.

With these people, Stalin's dictum applies, "One death is a tragedy; a million a statistic." And in that dictum only half of it is hypocrisy--

For, with these people, one death is a good start. . .