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Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2015 \/ 05:02 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Special needs children can bring joy, grace and a potential to thrive in the workplace in a way that parents may never have foreseen \u2013 says a former CEO and senate candidate who gave her personal witness to this at a pro-life event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\tAfter discussing her time teaching an eight year-old boy at a special needs school, Carly Fiorina revealed that, \u201cI have learned over the course of my life that every person has potential, that everyone has God-given gifts, and in truth, most people have far more potential than they realize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFiorina, the former CEO of Hewlitt Packard and 2010 GOP senate nominee, gave the keynote address at the Heritage Foundation event \u201cWelcoming Every Life.\u201d The event emphasized the tough choice parents face when their child receives a \u201cpoor prenatal diagnosis\u201d like Down Syndrome, Spinal Bifida, or another genetic disorder.<\/p>\n

\tThe vast majority of unborn children diagnosed with Down Syndrome are aborted; statistics from the Global Down Syndrome Foundation estimate the percentage as between 67 and 85 percent.<\/p>\n

\tYet despite the challenges of raising a special needs child, they can bring \u201cjoy and grace\u201d that could never have been predicted, Fiorina insisted.<\/p>\n

\t\u00a0\u201cKenneth,\u201d her special needs student, \u201cprovided moments of joy and grace and made a positive contribution to my life and I know to his parents\u2019 lives as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\tSpeaking as a former CEO, she said that the \u201chighest calling of leadership is to unlock potential in others.\u201d Children with special needs bring about this opportunity for leadership, she said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cSometimes, the times of greatest challenge can also bring the greatest blessings,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI know that life is not measured in time, in IQ, in wealth. Life is measured in love and moments of joy and grace and positive contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tMothers may be scared of a Downs diagnosis, but they need our \u201cdeepest support, never our condemnation,\u201d Fiorina insisted. \u201cTruly, who are we to judge which life is better than another? And none of us can predict the future, or the struggles that we will face.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHer talk played into the theme of this week\u2019s 2015 March for Life, \u201cEvery Life Is a Gift,\u201d that focuses on those unborn children given a \u201cpoor prenatal diagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tMarch for Life president Jeanne Monahan explained the theme in an op-ed for The Hill. She wrote that although parents may \u201cunderstandably\u201d be frightened by a \u201cpoor prenatal diagnosis\u201d and the majority choose to abort the child, those families with Downs children overwhelmingly report a positive quality of life, she cited statistics from a Harvard researcher.<\/p>\n

\tAs a Republican candidate for senate, Fiorina told of how, after she won her party\u2019s nomination, she was asked by a donor if she would soften her \u201cextreme\u201d abortion stance, especially after she had received degrees from MIT and Stanford.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe irony of that statement, of course, is that science is helping those of us who believe in the sanctity of life to make our case every day. Science is why more and more young people are becoming pro-life,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

\tFor example, evidence now shows that the same DNA present in a zygote is also present in a person at his death, she said. Surgeries on unborn children as young as 19 weeks are successful. Unborn children can dream and feel pain at five months of age.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe gather here because we know that the life we save may make all the difference in the lives of others. We gather here because we know that no one of us is any better than any other one of us. We gather here because we know that every human life has potential and every human life is precious,\u201d Fiorina concluded her talk.<\/p>\n

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