Posted on 01/28/2012 7:02:42 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
Prayers for Bella and foro the Santorum family.
Beautiful video. Though very blurry on my iPad. For some reason... Just beautiful. Bella is absolutely precious. Again I say, how lucky is she to be born into the Santorum family.
Prayers for Bella, and the Santorum family.
I don’t know how serious it is tonight but I just donated to Daddy’s campaign for a better day ahead for our country and for little Bella too.
Praying for little Bella.
That’s a beautiful video. Thanks for posting it. Prayers going out for Bella, Mr. and Mrs. Santorum and all of her loving brother and sisters - I’m betting they have a huge extended family (relative and friends). My prayers for all of them as they face every twist and turn in what has to be a trying situation - even if it’s full of blessings, and totally worth it (which it ALWAYS will be).
See posts 34 and 70.
Please Lord, help Bella to pull through.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Half of infants with this condition do not survive beyond the first week of life. Some children have survived to the teenage years, but with serious medical and developmental problems.
Thanks for the working link.
>>>You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I’m damned ashamed. Ashamed someone is wasting precious time that would better be spent attending to the needs of his ailing daughter... instead, he’s on a quixotic run for an office he’s not going to get the party nomination for, let alone win.
Have there been any updates on Bella?
The only thing I’ve heard is that Bella is in the hospital due to complications related to a genetic disease.
No matter who we support in the current campaign, Santorum and his daughter deserve our prayers.
Particularly for those of us who support the pro-life movement, we need to remember that there are direct personal consequences to choosing life and not aborting a child with a genetic defect. Being pro-life isn’t just theory for parents like Rick Santorum or Sarah Palin.
The Santorum family, like the Palin family, made a deliberate decision to keep their child despite a genetic defect. Far too many professing Christians talk the talk without walking the walk when it comes to things like this; we kid ourselves if we don't think married women who are professing members of Christian churches are sometimes visitors to abortion clinics, and genetic defects are the primary reason why that happens. (Note carefully I'm calling these women “professing” Christians; I have real problems saying unrepentant baby-killers are true Christians.) The Santorum family needs our prayers and deserves our respect for being consistently pro-life.
Whether we believe that Santorum should be president is secondary right now to our need to pray for his family. The Santorum family made a decision that most of us will never have to make, and while the choice may have been obvious for them, it definitely was not easy, and carried significant consequences for their personal lives.
106 posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:49:19 PM by TitansAFC: “Newt list ping! I beg each and every one of you to call upon our Lord tonight and lift up Rick Santorum, his daughter, and the whole family this evening in prayer! Almighty God, we your servants pray in the Holy Name of your Son, Jesus Christ. We fall at Your Feet and rest in Your Grace, and pray as You have instructed us to pray. Mighty Healer, Wonderful Counselor, Precious Lord - please hear our prayers on behalf of Bella Santorum and her family tonight. Heal, O Lord, Comfort and Sustain. Overwhelm them with Your loving embrace, Father, and Bless them dearly this evening and always. Amen.”
>>>TitansAFC, thank you **SO MUCH** for doing this (especially after the post the moderators removed).
Moderation here is capricious.
At best, Santorum is running for VP. He’s not going to win the nomination, or the office he’s aspiring to. If I were in the same situation, I’d be at home with the family right now, and for the foreseeable future, because that would be the right ting to do.
Yes. Updates with links on the other Santorum daughter thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2839518/posts?page=90
For someone who wasn't expected to live more than a few days, every day of life is a miracle. Let's not minimize the sacrifices the Santorum family had to make for her care. Most of us will never be in that position.
Keith, as a FReeper dating back to 1998 you've earned your spurs and you've participated in FReeper debates when I was only watching without registering. I respect that.
I also respect your view that you would leave politics and stay home to care for a child with a major genetic defect.
That's your choice. It's not the choice made by either Rick Santorum or Sarah Palin. I'm not going to criticize your choice or the choices made by other Christian parents in very difficult cases.
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