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Healthcare advocacy initiative

I know this is not "spiritual", but it's important. Kristan Hawkins, Exec Director of Students for Life has a 5 mos old baby boy born with cystic fibrosis. She has launched an intitiative to raise awareness (and hopefully some action) about how the proposed healthcare reform will adversely impact families who have kids w/ special medical needs (or therapies, even).

You can take a look at this and decide if you want to sign the letter that will be placed on record in the hands of the healthcare bill committee - but you need to act soon!

www.healthcareforgunner.com

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Permalink Reply by Leticia Velasquez on July 21, 2009 at 6:38pm

All of us who have children with special needs must be advocates for them in this Culture of Death in which we live. If not us, then who will stand up for them?
Princeton Bioethicist Peter Singer has a long editorial in the New York Times explaining why our children may be denied certain procedures in the new health care bill. He uses twisted logic and denies that all human life is equal. He said that we are in a position to determine who has quality of life, and should receive treatment.
A child like mine with Down syndrome or Gunner, with Cystic Fibrosis may not make it through the quality of life assesment. Peter Singer has suggested that parents have several weeks after a child is born to decide to kill him. He has said that chimpanzees are more intelligent than disabled children. This is the mentality of a Princeton ethics professor, the type who may very well be on the committee which deterimines if your child receives health care.
We have to oppose the health care plan NOW. It is up for a vote soon. This letter is a great way to do so.

Permalink Reply by Monica-BeNotAfraid on July 21, 2009 at 7:10pm