The Most Vulnerable

We were asleep in Hawaii at a business convention when our our oldest daughter called us, crying. She was standing alone in a parking lot in Kansas. She had just had a sonogram and the doctor told her that her baby had an abnormality in her hand. Shirley and I tried to comfort her and explain that it was ok, she could be fixed. A month later, Paula called and woke us again, But this time we were at home. She was crying, and bleeding. Her husband was an over the road truck driver and over a thousand miles away. I stayed home and helped the girls get ready for school. Shirley, normally a careful and painfully slow driver somehow drove to her home and took her to the hospital using Kefitzat Haderech - just joking, I think. 

Annalis had Trisomy 18 and only lived about 9 hours. Somehow Jess made it home in time to hold his daughter. Our pastor came and baptized her and gave her the last rights. I called the mortuary (we had had several losses and they knew me), so I was able to make all the funeral arrangements over the phone. Shirley and I went to Dillards to get a dress for Annalis. I remember standing next to a wall while Shirley and the clerk talked about how small she was. Shirley was holding a pink frilly dress. I slid down the wall and sat on the floor, tears uncontrollably flowing as I thought how this would be the only thing Annalis would ever own. What an honor it was that Paula and Jess allowed us to get it for her. Although it was a painful time, I will forever remember Annalis and appreciate her short life and the friends we made because of her. 

We recently had an election in Kansas that included an amendment to the state's constitution that would have given lawmakers in the state the ability to regulate abortion. The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a powerful left wing dark money group and Planned Parenthood poured millions of dollars into the state (double the Pro-Life group), on the premise was that the amendment would ensure that women should have the right to unencumbered access to abortion without government interference. They claimed that because the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, women would never be able to have an abortion, even to save the life of the mother. It was extremely frustrating to me that the media censored the Pro-Life people and allowed the Pro-Abortion group to make false accusations against the purpose of any possible legislation that could limit abortions. Any posts to social media by Pro-Life people were automatically deleted or shadow-banned.

I fear that a time will come, much like China's policies, that the results of this Kansas election will embolden the population control bureaucrats and actually increase government control regarding the most vulnerable. I predict that doctors will soon be required to perform abortions, even if it violates their conscience. It could go so far that doctors will be forced to perform gender transition surgeries and sterilizations against their will. Senicide and euthanasia of imperfect or "wrong" gender babies will become encouraged, if not forced, by the government without restriction. I fear a time will come when doctors will be required to abort any child like Annalis, who doesn't fit the agenda of the world government. They will be required to do what is best for mother earth and not the mother of the child. 

We are sliding down a slippery slope and the only way that we can avoid the consequences of our actions is to realize what is happening and make changes. The choices we make will affect our society in the very near future. "The real war happened when you weren't looking." -- Jim Butcher, The Warrior.

Although we only knew Annalis for a few hours, she made a profound effect on our lives. I became friends with people from all over the world who had children diagnosed with Trisomy 18. When our youngest daughter was born, the nurse told us that she had symptoms of Downs Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21. The prognosis for Lisa, who now teaches Clinical Anatomy at a local university and has a very active little boy, was wrong. Such a little thing, but I suppose that all of use are defective in some way.