Posted on 08/20/2019 6:57:17 AM PDT by ebb tide
ICELAND, August 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Iceland, which aborts nearly 100 percent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome, has held a funeral for a glacier.
The glacier, known as Okjökull or “Ok,” covered 6.2 square miles in 1890. However, by 2012, it had shrunk to less than 0.3 miles, and in 2014 Icelandic scientists decided it was no longer moving.
An Icelandic geologist, Oddur Sigurðsson, told Agence France-Presse that “...We made the decision that this was no longer a living glacier, it was only dead ice, it was not moving.”
Therefore about 100 people, including Iceland’s prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and Ireland’s former president Mary Robinson, held a ceremony where the glacier used to be on Sunday to commemorate its passing. A bilingual Icelandic-English plaque entitled “A letter to the future” was affixed to a rocky outcropping.
“Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier,” it reads.
“In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
According to Breitbart, Sigurðsson “brought a death certificate to the memorial service to bring attention to the ‘climate crisis’.”
Pope Francis alluded to the extinct glacier earlier this month when he was interviewed by Italian newspaper La Stampa. While explaining the relationship between his encyclical Laudato Si’ and the upcoming Synod on the Amazon, Francis said, “The other day, I read about a huge glacier in Iceland that melted almost completely: they built a funeral monument.”
But one sad irony about the disappearing Icelandic glaciers is that babies with Down syndrome regularly disappear from Iceland. In fact, almost everyone with Downs is aborted before he or she is born. In 2009, only three babies in Iceland were born with the genetic condition. By 2017, no Down Syndrome baby had been born there in five years.
In 2017, Breitbart reported that an Icelandic geneticist had boasted about the eradication of Down syndrome from his country.
“My understanding is that we have basically eradicated, almost, Down syndrome from our society – that there is hardly ever a child with Down syndrome in Iceland anymore,” said Kari Stefansson.
Helga Sol Olafsdottir, a counsellor at Landspitali University Hospital, indicated that she didn’t think the abortion of babies with Down sydrome was wrong.
“We don’t look at abortion as a murder,” she said. “We look at it as a thing that we ended.”
Just like the politicians that ignore homeless dying in the streets from TB, plague and leopracy - to Rail against Pre-Civil War Slavery.
Do you job! Don’t lecture us with excuses!
Ping
Yup, pope-a-dope strikes again. Who elected this guy? What were those cardinals toking?
Meanwhile over on Greenland the P-38 Glacier Girl was brought up from under 290 feet of ice that had accumulated since it landed there in 1942. That glacier can melt a lot before it’s back to its 1942 level.
Pope Soros I
Iceland has a notably not-western-values family and marriage system. If ya go to Wikipedia and read about their ‘surname’ conventions and their concept of marriage, you’ll kinda go “huh?” It’s not like us.
Iceland also has mapped the genome of virtually every family on the nation island. Back in the early 2000s Iceland was used a lot in genetics based drug discovery efforts - looking for disease markers in chromosomes to find targets for proteins for new ‘drugs’ and other treatments. Turned out to be unremarkable given the genomics knowledge of the day.
Point being, they are population-wise at risk of mild in-breeding, and their incidence of birth defects could be high. I DO NOT know for sure. They *may* be culturally used to ‘different outcomes’ for newborns or pre-borns. I don’t know.
Just food for thought/ rambling.
Fetuses have now dropped from blobs of cells to merely things. 911 was some thing that happened. I’m seeing a trend.
If you care - see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name
Choose life!
He has abandoned it in favor of an antithetical agenda.
Embracing the Homosexual agenda and the anti-life, population control agenda are the OPPOSITE of what he should be doing.
By far, the worst Pope in modern history.
The next Pope will be faced with the same dilemma which faced Donald Trump.
That is, cleaning up the mess left by a committed socialist.
So let me get this right. There’s a bunch of ice that is MELTING in the middle of summer. It’s still there. Is that about right?
Politics over values — in the pope’s case over religious doctrine as well — in full display. The punishment of the Catholic Church tragically continues ...
So what, glaciers once extended down into Ohio. Come erect some monumemts to those.
You mean bothersome tissue masses? Sort of like cancer?
Methinks Benedict stepped down before he was murdered. The Leftists in the Vatican are not to be messed with.........prayers that someday someone can straighten out the mess that Francis is making.
THIS POPE is a HERETIC!!!
Doesn’t sound like the pope “mourned” anything. The headline is not in sync with the article.
We know he doesn’t care about abortion, and cares about the environment, but that doesn’t mean he “mourned” the glacier. Be more careful next time.
No clearer illustration of where his priorities lie.
As a radical environmentalist they could not be otherwise.
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