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Politics : Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy of Death, Disease, Depravit -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Brumar89 who wrote (960)11/1/2017 12:52:31 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1308
 
God didn’t put me in the world to increase suffering. He put me here to increase acceptance. My life is worth living.



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I really want people to know that my life is worth living. As recently as this year, a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Richard Dawkins, expressed the opinion that it is “immoral” to have a child with Down syndrome. He said he believed that our lives bring more “suffering” into the world than “happiness.” I just don’t know what rock he has been under for the last 50 years. We no longer lead the short, unhappy lives in institutions that he seems to imagine. I really am the “Actor, Author, Advocate” that is described on my business card. I speak to over 50 audiences a year with a motivational message of hope. I just returned from a promotional tour of the United Kingdom with my co-star from “Touched by Grace,” Amber House. I have been to the White House twice (and I didn’t have jump the fence either time), I have debated Ann Coulter on national TV, and I teach people all the time not to underestimate others just because of how they look. God didn’t put me in the world to increase suffering. He put me here to increase acceptance. My life is worth living.

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https://www.globaldownsyndrome.org/qa-with-john-franklin-stephens/