Destroying people with Down Syndrome

By barbara on February 3, 2008 6:17 AM | No Comments

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.

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.