{"id":8998,"date":"2011-10-29T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2011-10-29T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T13:10:43","slug":"a-wonderful-contrast-to-the-99-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8998","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful Contrast To The 99 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/28\/meet-the-lovable-10\/\">Hot Air<\/a>\u00a0posted a story that should remind us what our real priorities should be. This is a picture from that article:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Boaz Reigstad 2\" src=\"http:\/\/media.hotair.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Boaz-Reigstad-2.jpg\" alt=\"Boaz Reigstad, Down Syndrome, pro-life\" width=\"421\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The picture is of\u00a0Boaz Reigstad, a five-year old who will shortly turn six. This picture has appeared on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The article reminds us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Reigstad also happens to have Down Syndrome. That, too, is visible in his picture \u2014 but it takes a back seat to the joy and warmth of his expression. Sadly, the apparently cheerful child is the exception to a startling rule: About 90 percent of pregnant mothers who learn their babies have Down Syndrome choose to abort. As <em>The Blaze <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/move-over-99-meet-the-loveable-10\/\">puts it<\/a>, \u201cThat means [just] 10 percent of children are brought to term after the mother learns of the condition.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Raising a child with a disability is an incredibly difficult job. Over the years I have known people who are raising children with serious problems. I have watched the struggles and the special love between these children and their parents. It is a sad commentary on our society that only 10 percent of children with Down Syndrome are allowed to live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7a8d101f-5dab-47ba-87ec-88d57de137a6\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Hot Air\u00a0posted a story that should remind us what our real priorities should be. This is a picture from that article: The picture is of\u00a0Boaz Reigstad, a five-year old who will shortly turn six. This picture has appeared on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1023,1020,1022,1024,1025,881,1021,285],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boaz-reigstad","tag-down-syndrome","tag-facebook","tag-genetic-disorder","tag-health","tag-parenting","tag-pregnancy","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}