Peanut Gallery: There are no exceptions… every child is born in the “image of God”… and God has a purpose and plan for every one of them.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1.27 ESV

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. Psalm 139.13-16 ESV

End the Down Syndrome Holocaust Today.   by Cassy Fiano | March 21, 2012

When you hear the word holocaust, most people automatically think of Hitler and the Nazis, slaughtering the Jews. Many people don’t know that there was another group that Hitler targeted first, a dress rehearsal of sorts for the horror that was to come later. The first group of people that Hitler went after was the disabled. First, there was a law passed in 1933 which required the forced sterilization of people with disabilities, and over 400,000 people were sterilized. Then, there was Aktion-T4, which authorized the murders of disabled people. Over 70,000 were killed. They would be placed in buses and taken to killing centers, where they were murdered as soon as they got there under the Nazi euthanasia program.

How many people will learn about that and be horrified? And how many of them know that right now, to this very day, we’re still practicing eugenics against the disabled? This holocaust, though, is a silent one. It’s one that many people won’t hear about and if they do, they excuse it. The holocaust I’m referring to is the systematic killing of babies with Down syndrome. Continue reading “End the Down Syndrome Holocaust Today” →