The GOP candidates for president are coming to Michigan
Our local papers are getting into the spirit of the race but
one front-page article the Free Press published, we (my wife and I) found disturbing.
The article was titled: BABY FAITH BRINGS A FAMILY TOGETHER
by Kathleen Gray (Feb. 13) and sub-titled: Parents praise Santorum’s advice in
helping daughter.
Santorum, in my book, is an ultra fundamental Christian
(officially Catholic) and has some very strange ideas about life and religion;
strange to the point that he may actually be dangerous to himself, his family
and this nation.
The article talks about being so pro-life that you would be
willing to bring into the world a child that the doctors warned would be
severely retarded and unable to live for long since most of her bodily systems
could not function properly.
The article features the family (5 children already) and how
they deal with the severely disabled child which has the same problems
Santorum’s daughter has, which he too brought into the world after being warned
about her condition.
I feel we all are pro-life but pro-life is, to me, not an
absolute position and that means that it is and must be a relative position,
relative to the actual “life” in question.
For Rick Santorum and the parents of baby Faith, bringing
those children into the world and remaining pro-life to the core, took
precedent over the children’s welfare. That means that these so called pro-life
radicals had no concern for the suffering these children would be subjected to
in their all too brief life if you can call it a life at all.
If you were given a choice of not being born or of being
born into a living hell, never to achieve any form of normality but continue to
suffer unimaginable pain until you mercifully expired, what would you choose?
But these parents made the choice for these children, caring
only about their Christianity and nothing for the person they placed into hell.
They think of themselves as heroes, as people to be idolized for their
commitment to their needy child but all I see is total irresponsibility as
human beings and ignorant people that should never have been allowed to become
parents.
True, parents that were unlucky to have children that needed
life long care are heroes for devoting their lives to making their children’s
lives a little better on earth but they did not know beforehand that their
children would be born that way; they just accepted their fate.
BUT people that are forewarned by doctors with medical proof
that their children would be born seriously abnormal and would have a life of
pure torture and they still allow those children to be born, they should be
charged with a crime against humanity.
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