Posted on 02/09/2021 2:40:41 PM PST by edwinland
n 2014, France’s High Audiovisual Council banned one of the most moving TV commercials ever made. Titled “Dear Future Mom,” the ad addressed women pregnant with children diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Dear future mom,” said one child with Down syndrome. “Don’t be afraid,” said another. “Your child will be able to do many things.” “He’ll be able to hug you.” “He’ll be able to run towards you.” “He’ll be able to speak and tell you he loves you.”
In France, 96 percent of Down syndrome pregnancies are terminated ... “Dear Future Mom” was a modest attempt to arrest the eradication of an entire category of human beings. And it proved a global hit, breaking records for social-media shares and winning the support of Matteo Renzi, the Italian Prime Minister, among many other public figures.
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One complainant took issue with the sponsor’s pro-life stance generally, not with anything specific to the ad. The second complaint came from a woman who had aborted a Down syndrome pregnancy and found the ad “violent.” In the end, France’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, upheld the ban, on the grounds that “Dear Future Mom” could “disturb the consciences” of women who had aborted Down syndrome pregnancies. (An appeal is still pending before the European Court of Human Rights.)
“Disturbing the conscience” is an interesting justification for state censorship. To protect the right to eugenic abortion from criticism of any sort, it seems, the French state must silence the moral claims of children with disabilities. To permit children with Down syndrome to address expectant mothers is impermissible, because it brings into view the nagging obligations of embodied love: between mother and child, between the strong and the weak, between the human family and some of its most vulnerable members.
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The Bible speaks of people in the end times having their consciences “seared with a hot iron”, making them insensitive. Sounds like this is a case in point.
Good read.
My daughter recently gave birth to a baby with a rare brain disorder that will require constant seizure management. He looks perfectly healthy, but he will not develop like other kids.
For the first few months she said she was in mourning for her baby boy who will not have a normal life. And, I said to her, "When it all said and done and you two met in heaven, he will be perfectly whole and he will be singing your praises for lovingly taking care of his needs."
“In real life the British government would have wanted him terminated”
I never knew. Why would they want that?
The NHS loves to kill the imperfect.
If you don’t believe me, ask the parents of Aflie Evans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Evans_case
Alfie was born with a terminal illness.
The NHS chose not to try experimental treatments on him, on the grounds that they would make him suffer.
While one may argue the merits of the case, this is not the same as killing off the vulnerable just because they have a non-terminal condition that makes them less than perfect.
And, for the record, if an ad or anything else makes a woman uncomfortable with her decision to kill her child, I’m all for it. We need more ads that hit the conscience, not fewer.
As are we all.
The NHS chose not to try experimental treatments on him, on the grounds that they would make him suffer.
That may or may not have been their excuse, but the real reason they murdered him is because the wanted him dead. There were numerous free treatments lined up for him outside of the UK and the NHS blocked him and his parents from leaving to receive them. The only people who should be able to decide that a treatment of a child isn't worth pursuing are the child's parents.
Britain is following other countries in the region by doing prenatal testing and recommending abortions for babies found to have Down Syndrome.
What a beautiful thing to say to your daughter. I hope it eased her pain.
Im aware of a couple of instances going back as far as the 70s here in the US where the same thing happened. In the cases Im aware of the parents decided to keep the child and it turned out that the tests were wrong. Its not as though our medical community has any right to point fingers at anyone.
‘You are a soul; you have a body.’
You may have already seen this video, but every time I watch it, I tear up.
I think it is titled “50 Mothers who wouldn’t change a thing”.
Well; they've learned something from Dur Fuehrer
She is a really good mother, probably one of the best I have ever seen. Both she and my son-in-law have really good attitudes about their situation. My grandson is a real cutie-pie.
Although some people mistakenly attribute the quote above to C.S. Lewis's book Mere Christianity, Lewis never wrote that. If you are a Christian, I would caution you that the belief you just expressed is very close to the dangerous heresy of Manichaeism. This was the heresy that St. Augustine took many years to break free of. As Christians who profess the Nicene Creed, we believe that God gives us both a body and a soul and that both, while tarnished by sin, are good and that we will be returned to our earthly body at the end of time.
The Book indicates something else:
Romans 7:5
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.Romans 8:5-9
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.1 Corinthians 15:50
Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.Galatians 5:17
For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh ; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.Galatians 6:12-13
Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.Ephesians 2:3
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh , indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
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