Posted on 04/30/2005 5:41:34 AM PDT by NYer
Hi MM. My reaction (please see post #20) is along the same line as yours.
Diana in Wisconsin posted a link up above to a group called Charity Navigator. Don't know if it screens out your criteria.
While I don't know of such a charity personally, here are some resources that may be able to direct you towards such an organization.
I've pinged Coleus again and hopefully he will be able to expand on this.
BTW - you would be equally surprised by the companies in your retirement portfolio. Some of them use those investments in much the same way as the MOD. Should you be interested, AVE MARIA FUNDS are designed specifically for morally responsible investors who are looking for financially sound investments in companies that do not violate the core teachings of the Catholic Church. No fetal stem cell research.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Revealing info about the March of Dimes. Reduces birth defects by abortion - everyone should know their agenda.
Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.
Like getting rid of illness by murdering the patients.
Thank you very much for the information. I will try to contact those organizations re: my question.
Just a comment on one of the statements in the article, exactly what birth defect did Hellen Keller have? I always heard that She was born with hearing and vision, had some type of illness that caused her to lose vision and hearing, so what was her birth defect?
Pro-Life Bump.
Pat Robertson of CBN and the Christian Coalition asked those with this philosophy, "Would we have been better off if there had never been a Helen Keller or Beethoven or Einstein — all of whom had "birth defects?"
Helen Keller and Beethoven were NOT deaf due to birth defects. They both originally had their hearing but lost it,
Keller lost hers following an illness and Beethoven, it is theorised, lost his due to physical abuse from his father. His father used to beat him about the head.
"Helen Keller and Beethoven were NOT deaf due to birth defects. They both originally had their hearing but lost it,
Keller lost hers following an illness and Beethoven, it is theorised, lost his due to physical abuse from his father. His father used to beat him about the head."
Even if this is true, there are some who would want to kill the disabled AFTER BIRTH. Killing the disabled BEFORE or AFTER birth is wrong.
I believe it is murder to kill before birth as well as after, but that does not negate the fact that Pat Robertson was incorrect in his statement that Keller and Beethoven were deaf due to birth defects. They were born healthy and became deaf later, so abortion would NOT have been an issue.
My concern is that we on the pro-life side need to be scrupulous in our statement of the "facts" otherwise we are no different than the pro-death side, twisting and misusing the "facts" to suit our purpose. Why should we do that when we have Truth on our side to begin with?
Thank you so much for the information. I was blithely unaware...
I'm very happy to hear that you are pro-life BEFORE and AFTER birth & that you just wanted to set the story straight.
I'm a little late to this thread...clicked a link to it from another, current thread. May God bless you and your daughter. I was at a local Post Office last week and saw a dad there with his Down's daughter. She was precious. She was asking him questions, talking with him. I was wondering how old she was...maybe around 11-12-13. Hey, I fell in love with her in that short 5-7 min. span. How precious she seemed to me.
Have you read Christopher De Vinck's great book, The Power of the Powerless? What a warm, wonderful book it is...one of the few I ever reviewed on Amazon.com.
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