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February 3, 2008 8:06 AM

Destroying people with Down Syndrome

What does Al Qaida and our "Civilized Nation" have in common?

Both believe the lives of individuals with Down syndrome are expendable when those with more typical genetic patterns think so. By now you've probably heard that terrorists strapped explosives to two women with Down syndrome and detonated their human bombs in two incidents Friday.

John Piper writes at Desiring God:

Bombing, Abortion, & Down Syndrome February 2, 2008

Al Qaida has moved another step toward western standards of abortion barbarity in using Down Syndrome women to blow boys and girls to pieces. The news is that this was not suicide bombing, but the detonation of retarded girls at a distance.

The disgust one feels for the kind of heart that does this could reveal to England and America how we should feel when we screen for Down Syndrome babies and then kill them. Compare the stories:

Read his comparison here.

Thanks Christy and Leslie and for the tip - and thanks, John, for the insight.

Lord, open our eyes that we may see. Open our hearts that we may hear.

Love,
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Comments

oh this is so sad... sometimes I wonder why God doesn't just destroy us all again. His mercy is really amazing.

Posted by: Tara | February 3, 2008 8:32 AM

Thanks for sharing this even though it is horrible. We need to be aware of what is going on.

Posted by: Christine | February 3, 2008 11:32 PM

When I heard about this on the news I felt sick and my heart just broke. I look at how trusting my little 2 year old son with D.S. is, and I can only imagine how easy it was to prey on these two innocent women. I cannot fathom the horror of what Al Qaida did. And I continue to beg God's mercy for our own country's holocaust of the unborn.

Posted by: Julie Klekas | February 4, 2008 1:50 AM

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