{"id":8885,"date":"2015-07-06T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:53:08","slug":"my-brother-is-not-a-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2015\/07\/my-brother-is-not-a-defect\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother Is NOT a Defect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.498316% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/82804119?et=iKJ_51dIS_dNctMsgx_v1A&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=zJiDL8T4xiCbNXpCGL86BXEbhLUBae678D-g2HZLUjU=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/82804119\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>How twisted is our culture that many people call the murder of an innocent life the \u201chuman\u201d thing to do?\u00a0 And to make it even more twisted, they go on to justify the murder because the child at issue may be a little different than the status quo!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/opinion\/aborting-defective-downs-babies-is-the-human-thing-to-do-pro-abort-blogger\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogger did recently<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pro-abortion blogger outraged over an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiolife.org\/down-syndrome-non-discriminati\/?SSScrollPosition=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ohio bill<\/a> that would prohibit abortion on the basis of the pre-born child having Down syndrome wrote that ending the life of someone because of a disability is simply the \u201chuman\u201d thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state would force a woman to carry a defective pregnancy to term,\u201d wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.ca\/2015\/06\/the-down-side-prenatal-testing-and-its.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dammit Janet<\/a>\u00a0blogger in a tizzy of outrage.<\/p>\n<p>The blogger, reminiscent of Richard Dawkin\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/breaking-richard-dawkins-choosing-not-to-abort-baby-with-down-syndrome-is-i\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2014 moral crusade on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to have Downs babies destroyed, went on to make the case that humans with defects don\u2019t deserve to live because they make life too complicated for those who have no defects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These children are not defects!\u00a0 They are human beings who are valuable members of our society!<\/p>\n<p>I have written on this blog many times about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2014\/08\/worlds-most-famous-atheist-says-it-was-immoral-to-let-my-brother-live\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">immense joy <\/a>\u00a0that Trig, my brother with Down Syndrome, brings to all who interact with him.\u00a0 It sickens me that a blogger hiding behind his computer screen would have the audacity to call Trig\u2019s life \u201cdefective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love the story Pete Baklinski of Lifesite tells of Mother Teresa\u2019s interaction with one of these so-called \u201cdefects\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A family from Venezuela once bestowed on Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity a house with some land. In the family was an acutely disabled child who to all appearance would make any eugenicist\u2019s \u2018elimination\u2019 list. Mother Teresa was immediately drawn to the small helpless child. She bent down closer to him and asked his name.<\/p>\n<p>The parents\u2019 response almost left the greathearted woman speechless. \u201cOur \u2018professor of love\u2019, that\u2019s what we call him,\u201d they answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful!\u201d replied Mother Teresa. \u201cLet him continue his teaching on love.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How precious is that!\u00a0 A \u201cprofessor of love!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every disabled child I have had the blessing to spend time with, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2013\/04\/happy-birthday-trig\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my brother Trig<\/a>, has taught me more about joy and unconditional love than anyone else I have ever met.<\/p>\n<p>This blogger and those opposed to pro-life bills like the one in Ohio need to spend more time with these \u201cprofessors of love!\u201d\u00a0 Maybe then they would begin to see that those they call \u201cdefective\u201d in reality understand more 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