{"id":1017,"date":"2010-04-29T20:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=455"},"modified":"2010-04-29T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:20:12","slug":"incompatible-with-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"“…incompatible with life.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve moved into the Lone Star state where we’ve started our Deep in the Heart of Texas Tour<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0 Once again, we continue to pride ourselves in originality… \u00a0 Our first stop is in Orange, Texas (on the border), where we are meeting \u00a0with pro-life advocates Paul and Ruby Mayeux. \u00a0 They have 11 children. \u00a0 Seven who are currently alive, three miscarriages and Michael. \u00a0 Michael was three months old when he died in 2007. \u00a0 During an ultra-sound when Ruby was pregnant with Michael, they learned Michael had a chromosome disorder. \u00a0 The doctor recommended the couple go to Houston for more tests “…so they could consider their options.” \u00a0 Implied in this was: abortion. \u00a0 The Mayeuxs said that they were pro-life and “the only ‘option<\/em>‘ was to have the baby.” \u00a0 Michael was born a month premature, and not breathing. \u00a0 He was resuscitated. \u00a0 Michael had four holes in his heart and four cysts on his brain. \u00a0 The official diagnosis was Trisomy 18, also called Edwards Syndrome. \u00a0 The prognosis? \u00a0 Incompatible with life, Paul said. \u00a0 While the little baby struggled day to day, Mom and Dad rallied around him, the Mayeux children rallied around him, church members rallied around him, neighbors rallied around him. \u00a0 And in all this, a tremendous amount of bonding and love happened between \u00a0many of \u00a0these people. \u00a0 Michael, it turned out, had been a tremendous gift from God, said Paul. \u00a0 “At Michael’s wake, our three oldest children spoke about Michael and how he had touched their lives,” \u00a0 said Paul. \u00a0 “While losing Michael was very painful, I would never change the gift of having him.” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Our administration would promote a Consistent Life Ethic, which means we are against anything that can end life prematurely. \u00a0For more on our stance, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve moved into the Lone Star state where we’ve started our Deep in the Heart of Texas Tour. \u00a0 Once again, we continue to pride ourselves in originality… \u00a0 Our first stop is in Orange, Texas (on the border), where …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}