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The ‘Brave New World’ of Down Syndrome Eugenics
by Brian Mark Weber
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Adams – BANNON SCALP Won’t
Help DEMS With “UPSIDE DOWN VALUES”
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Steve Bannon shared his less-than-optimistic view of the status of the Trump administration today and moving forward... Now free to speak his mind without the shackles of White House protocol, a chain of command and neocon, globalists restraining him, Bannon said, ominously, “The Trump Presidency that we fought for and won is over.” He continued, “We still have a huge movement and we will make something of the Trump Presidency, but that Presidency is over…I think they’re going to try to moderate him.” It’s natural that he’s got a negative opinion of those he’s been battling inside the White House and their impact on the administration. That’s why he was battling in the first place and fighting the globalists who seem to have won out. Everyone expected, after his comments to the American Prospect, regardless of his motivations, that his days and perhaps his hours were numbered... http://rickwells.us/adams-bannon-scalp-help-dems-values/
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OOPS: 'Antifa' Protesters Vandalized Peace
Monument They Thought Was a Confederate Statue
by Emily Zanotti
{dailywire.com} ~ Antifa protesters marched on Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia this week, bent on destroying the "Confederate monument" they said was encouraging racism in their community... But it was only after they'd vandalized and spray-painted the statue that they realized it was a "peace monument" designed to encourage national healing in the wake of the Civil War...All those Antifa should of been arrested. http://www.dailywire.com/news/19861/oops-antifa-protesters-vandalized-peace-monument-emily-zanotti
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How to Give Jeff Flake’s Senate Seat to a Democrat
by Jonathan S. Tobin
{nationalreview.com} ~ President Donald Trump’s tweet yesterday morning endorsing a primary challenger to Arizona senator Jeff Flake was hardly a surprise. Trump likes to call himself a counter-puncher, so from his frame of reference... Flake had been asking for it by not only consistently criticizing the president but also spending the summer promoting a book attacking Trump and the Republicans who haven’t stood up to him. But this is a move Trump and his party may come to regret. Trump wasn’t the only one annoyed by Flake’s Conscience of a Conservative and the accompanying tour. The senator’s attempt to cast himself as the successor to Barry Goldwater, whose 1960 book by the same name was a seminal moment in the rise of the modern conservative movement, was an act of colossal pretension. His interviews on shows such as Morning Joe amounted to nothing more than obnoxious virtue-signaling even from the point of view of Flake’s fellow Trump critics... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450597/jeff-flake-2018-trump-kelli-ward-arizona-senate-primary-opponent-repulicans-lose-seat?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Saturday%202017-08-19&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives
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{conventionofstates.com} ~ In one of the biggest 2018 premium hikes sought to date, Iowa’s only liar-nObamaCare insurer is looking for a 57 percent rate increase – that’s 13 percent more than they asked for just two months earlier... It’s a troubling trend that’s been spreading across the country as jittery insurers stay stuck in a holding pattern waiting on Congress and the Trump administration to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act. President Trump has at different times encouraged lawmakers to let liar-nObamaCare implode, pushed his party to repeal and replace the bill, admonished his own party for failing to do so and supported a repeal-only bill... https://www.conventionofstates.com/obamacare_nightmare_spreads_to_iowa?utm_source=Convention+of+States+Project&utm_campaign=0f71f82c19-8_19_17_COS_Weekly_Roundup&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_45196125c1-0f71f82c19-214976545
liar-nObamacare nightmare spreads to
Iowa as insurer seeks 57 percent rate increase
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Klayman – Sessions Must Investigate
Farrakhan, BLM, AntiFa Role In Charlottesville
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Lionel interviews Larry Klayman for Newsmax, starting things off with the departure of Steve Bannon from the Trump administration... Klayman says, “I’m sorry to see him go. He was the most vehement anti-establishment person in the White House.” “I don’t know what went on there,” says Klayman, “but you need somebody like that next to President Trump. And of course he still has Stephen Miller, who is very similar to Bannon.” He believes this is a result of “General Kelly having his way, and President Trump, of course is the guy who’s in charge. He’s not going to do what other people tell him to do if he thinks it’s wrong.” He note that sometimes President Trump might not be right, no one is right all the time. He says, “We need a clear vision, we need some organization, and let’s hope things go smoothly at this point.”... http://rickwells.us/klayman-sessions-must-investigate-farrakhan-blm-antifa-role-charlottesville/
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The ‘Brave New World’ of Down Syndrome Eugenics
By Brian Mark Weber: In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, readers are presented with a dystopian vision of the future in which the whole process of conception and birth is delegated to the scientific community. Parents have no emotional connection to their children, and motherhood itself is considered embarrassing and obscene.
The novel, written in 1931, seemed far-fetched at the time. Yet it wasn’t long after Huxley penned his dark and frightening tale that science and politics began to consider the implications, and the possibilities, of playing God with human reproduction in order to bring about desired results.
Columnist David Harsanyi writes, “[‘Negative selection’ eugenics] was the rationalization behind the coerced sterilization of thousands of mentally ill, poor, and minorities here in America. It is why real-life Nazis required doctors to register all newborns born with Down syndrome. And the first humans they gassed were children under three years old with ‘serious hereditary diseases’ like Down syndrome.”
But why wait? Aborting unborn children with Down syndrome is gaining acceptance once again, and the latest wave of news is from Iceland. Yet the child’s suffering or the elimination of a human life doesn’t seem to be part of the conversation, nor does the post-abortion health of the mother.
What’s interesting is that, according to Kevin Burke in the Washington Examiner, “About 80 percent of parents facing the same diagnosis, who were provided with the option of perinatal hospice care for the child and family, chose to carry their disabled child to term.” Apparently, most parents planning to abort their children don’t receive this advice.
Burke adds, “Those who advocate for routine screening to detect fetal disabilities also fail to advise parents of the potential for serious post-abortion reactions. The fallout from this loss can place a tremendous strain on couples as they struggle with the shock and pain that can follow the abortion. Some abortion advocates may concede that some women suffer symptoms of depression and grief immediately after termination of disabled babies, but they see this as a short-term condition. Research, however, confirms that women often suffer symptoms of emotional trauma and complicated grief years after such procedures.”
Sadly, and just like the people in “Brave New World,” Icelanders no longer seem to value human life. Parents who fail to think of their unborn child as human are less likely to keep their child when the options are presented to them.
As Helga Sol Olafsdottir, a counselor at Landspitali University Hospital, helpfully explains, “We don’t look at abortion as a murder. We look at it as a thing that we ended. We ended a possible life that may have had a huge complication … preventing suffering for the child and for the family.”
A thing? If children are considered “things,” then it can’t be long before countries like Iceland start passing their own version of Nazi Germany’s Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.
While those on the Left may rush to defend a program that frees parents from the burden of raising a disabled child, they should seriously think about the implications of going down this path.
Columnist David Harsanyi writes, “[‘Negative selection’ eugenics] was the rationalization behind the coerced sterilization of thousands of mentally ill, poor, and minorities here in America. It is why real-life Nazis required doctors to register all newborns born with Down syndrome. And the first humans they gassed were children under three years old with ‘serious hereditary diseases’ like Down syndrome.”
But why wait? Aborting unborn children with Down syndrome is gaining acceptance once again, and the latest wave of news is from Iceland. Yet the child’s suffering or the elimination of a human life doesn’t seem to be part of the conversation, nor does the post-abortion health of the mother.
What’s interesting is that, according to Kevin Burke in the Washington Examiner, “About 80 percent of parents facing the same diagnosis, who were provided with the option of perinatal hospice care for the child and family, chose to carry their disabled child to term.” Apparently, most parents planning to abort their children don’t receive this advice.
Burke adds, “Those who advocate for routine screening to detect fetal disabilities also fail to advise parents of the potential for serious post-abortion reactions. The fallout from this loss can place a tremendous strain on couples as they struggle with the shock and pain that can follow the abortion. Some abortion advocates may concede that some women suffer symptoms of depression and grief immediately after termination of disabled babies, but they see this as a short-term condition. Research, however, confirms that women often suffer symptoms of emotional trauma and complicated grief years after such procedures.”
Sadly, and just like the people in “Brave New World,” Icelanders no longer seem to value human life. Parents who fail to think of their unborn child as human are less likely to keep their child when the options are presented to them.
As Helga Sol Olafsdottir, a counselor at Landspitali University Hospital, helpfully explains, “We don’t look at abortion as a murder. We look at it as a thing that we ended. We ended a possible life that may have had a huge complication … preventing suffering for the child and for the family.”
A thing? If children are considered “things,” then it can’t be long before countries like Iceland start passing their own version of Nazi Germany’s Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.
While those on the Left may rush to defend a program that frees parents from the burden of raising a disabled child, they should seriously think about the implications of going down this path.
The situation is not much better in the United States, where nearly two-thirds of American women whose prenatal screening tests reveal Down syndrome choose to have an abortion. Fortunately, there’s still some resistance at the political level.
Harsanyi notes, “A number of U.S. states have passed or want to pass laws that would ban abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome, or because of the race, sex, or ethnicity of a fetus. Such a U.S. House bill failed in 2012. Most Democrats involved claimed to be against sex-selective abortion, but not one gave a reason why. Probably because once you admit that these theoretical choices equate to real-life consequences, like eugenics, you are conceding that these are lives we’re talking about, not blobs.”
And what if science develops to the point where we can identify other traits in humanity that parents may find undesirable: a genetic heart condition or a low IQ — or, where it would really hit home for leftists, homosexuality? Gender-based abortions of girls are already the norm in Communist China. When society reaches the point where only desirable children are allowed to enter this world, are we still a civilization? And if a free society lacks the moral compass to speak out against this practice, how can we oppose another government that one day might decide that Jews, Africans or Christians are a “problem”?
These are the questions that should be asked before science allows us to discover even more “undesirable” traits in unborn children, and before the political class yields to social and cultural decay. Let’s face it: We’re living in a Brave New World today. But unlike the society in Huxley’s novel, we must summon the courage and decency to end the ghastly practice of eugenics.
~The Patriot Post
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