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To: wagglebee

While people have been agonizing over baby Joseph, thousands have been killed on our nation’s highways, and many more severely injured. Families have been devastated. And yet this one baby gets all the press.

What gives?


20 posted on 03/18/2011 2:28:41 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: RobRoy

We know there are people like you in our midst. Too bad you had to crawl out from under your rock and make yourself known.


27 posted on 03/18/2011 2:36:34 PM PDT by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: RobRoy; Dr. Brian Kopp; trisham; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; Coleus; narses; Lesforlife; ...
While people have been agonizing over baby Joseph, thousands have been killed on our nation’s highways, and many more severely injured. Families have been devastated.

Well, YOU certainly haven't agonized about Baby Joseph, by your own admission you had know idea who he was a few hours ago and probably still don't.

Yes, people are killed every day in tragic accidents; however, their deaths are not IMMEDIATELY PREVENTABLE the way that Baby Joseph's is.

And yet this one baby gets all the press.

This baby gets press because people who care about the sanctity of life CHOSE to do everything possible to save his life.

Were it left up to the mainstream media, the ones who report the news you do care about, Baby Joseph would have been murdered and nobody would have known.

44 posted on 03/18/2011 4:52:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: RobRoy

Baby Joseph is not the only person we’ve reached out to. Many of us have been reaching out to help the victims ever since we heard about this happening to Terri Schiavo.

We really should compile a list of the people we’ve saved, and the people we’ve tried to save. Mae Maguirk, Lauren Richardson, Sun Hudson, Haleigh Poutre, Vo (I can’t remember the rest of her name, a Vietnamese refugee), and who knows how many others.

Publicity is not necessarily a bad thing. If not for publicity, Baby Joseph would almost certainly have been murdered by now.

We work to save these people’s lives because it’s the right thing to do, not because we’re a bunch of hormonal women who can’t control our emotions. Some of us are men, and I would venture to say more man than anyone too selfish to care about anyone he doesn’t know intimately.

We can’t help each person individually, but each time someone is exterminated for being disabled or near death, there is a ripple effect that puts more and more people at risk. When it reaches your circle of acquaintances, will you start to care, or will you find a new excuse for not caring?


53 posted on 03/18/2011 6:22:41 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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