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- 09/18/09
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Don’t Be Like Mike
Voddie Baucham: “There was a stark difference between the two acceptance speeches. As I listened to the two speeches, all I could think of was the old commercial catchphrase, “Like Mike… If I could be like Mike.” Unfortunately, in this instance, Mike was the last person anyone should aspire to be like. This was definitely not a Michael Jordan highlight. Jordan’s Speech was self-centered, indulgent, arrogant, and at times embarrassing. In contrast, David Robinson rose to the occasion and made a brief, inspiring, encouraging speech (see his speech here) that made his family, his team, and his friends proud. ”
The Stimulus Didn’t Work
That’s what the WSJ says…and they back it up quite well.
Will Babies With Down Syndrome Just Disappear?
Al Mohler asks the question. “The development of prenatal diagnostic technologies presents a constellation of moral issues — with the diagnosis of Down syndrome front and center. Over the past several years, a marked decrease in the number of babies born with Down syndrome has been both observed and widely reported. This decrease can be traced directly to the decision to abort after prenatal diagnosis.”
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Voddie Baucham: “There was a stark difference between the two acceptance speeches. As I listened to the two speeches, all I could think of was the old commercial catchphrase, “Like Mike… If I could be like Mike.” Unfortunately, in this instance, Mike was the last person anyone should aspire to be like. This was definitely not a Michael Jordan highlight. Jordan’s Speech was self-centered, indulgent, arrogant, and at times embarrassing. In contrast, David Robinson rose to the occasion and made a brief, inspiring, encouraging speech (see his speech here) that made his family, his team, and his friends proud. ”
The Stimulus Didn’t Work
That’s what the WSJ says…and they back it up quite well.
Will Babies With Down Syndrome Just Disappear?
Al Mohler asks the question. “The development of prenatal diagnostic technologies presents a constellation of moral issues — with the diagnosis of Down syndrome front and center. Over the past several years, a marked decrease in the number of babies born with Down syndrome has been both observed and widely reported. This decrease can be traced directly to the decision to abort after prenatal diagnosis.”
Deal of the Day: Biblical Theology
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Comments (6)
To answer Mohler: no, as long as there are people who refuse to abort. They will, however, probably continue to decrease in frequency until some base line level is reached.
The 92% figure is also damning to those who want to maintain that there is a “pro-life majority” in the United States. Answering a telephone poll is one thing, raising a Down’s child is quite another.
The troubling thing about Down babies disappearing or almost disappearing is that services for them will be harder to come by. Who’s going to specialize in education or therapy for a condition that rarely exists?
But I still resist the idea that diagnostic technologies are somehow questionable here. Knowing what you are, or may be up against if you are going to have a child with serious disabilities can only be good (as long as it’s not something with an absurd rate of false positives like that horrendous triple-test.) It’s the human heart that’s the problem. Nobody thinks we should discourage early diagnosis for irreversible, debilitating diseases in adults because of the Hemlock society.
I should correct what I said earlier. The 92% figure is for people who actually chose to have the pre-natal testing. It stands to reason that if you’re totally opposed to aborting you’re probably not going to bother having the testing. In order to make any statement about the size of the pro-life camp we’d need to know what percentage of mothers actually elected to be tested.
(I’m posting this here, too, as it is pertinent in both locations today.)
The juxtaposition of this book review and an a la carte item about David Robinson’s acceptance speech is interesting. I do not follow the NBA, but I did listen to Robinson’s 7 min 45 sec speech, and it is an incredible testimony to the Spirit of God living in (and, I suspect, ministering through) a very humble man. He has an amazing commitment to and love for his wife and three sons, and clearly an informed faith that he can express well. I recommend it to all.
The speech is here:http://www.nba.com/video/channels/hall_of_fame/2009/09/11/nba_20090911_hof_robinson_speech.nba/
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