{"id":611,"date":"2007-03-08T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T13:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-03-08T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T13:33:56","slug":"3607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"3\/6\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Valdosta, Georgia, I told an NBC News<\/em> reporter that we were against abortion. \u00a0 During a talk at a Mass in St. Augustine, Florida, I said “abortion would end tomorrow” if we took to the streets en masse, flooded newspapers with letters to the editor, built tremendous safety nets for women in crisis pregnancy, took dramatic steps to end poverty… yet, well, we’re all too busy<\/em> — to end the Holocaust. During a talk to a youth group in Valdosta, I said my “State of the Union Address” would include showing graphic slides of abortion to help move people off the dime. \u00a0 Because it is, after all, a big (and horrific<\/em>) part of \u00a0our “state of the union.” \u00a0 During the question and answer period, a young woman said she would like to see abortion end, except when there’s physical \u00a0threat to the mother or baby. \u00a0 Valdosta’s Paula Bickerstaff would disagree. \u00a0 During an interview with Paula the day after the talk, she told me her fourth son, Patrick, \u00a0was diagnosed with Trysome 18, a rather rare chromosome disease that includes brain damage, extreme physical disabilities and virtually no chance of long term survival. \u00a0 Patrick was in the womb at the time of the diagnosis. \u00a0 Paula and her husband are Catholic and she said they would never consider abortion. \u00a0 Patrick was \u00a0three pounds at birth, \u00a0had considerable \u00a0brain damage, extensive, internal \u00a0physical problems. \u00a0 He lived six weeks with the parents and children loving him continually, people praying for him throughout the country…. \u00a0 “Patrick touched so many lives,” said Paula, showing me \u00a0his picture. \u00a0 An ironic twist<\/strong>: \u00a0 Paula said the day doctors told her about Patrick’s disease, she passed \u00a0a protest in front of an abortion clinic \u00a0on the way home. \u00a0 People held signs with graphic pictures of aborted babies, she recalled. \u00a0 She wondered how people could so cavalierly (and callously) take the life of a baby, while she was praying to God for every minute possible with her baby. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Our Pro-life platform<\/a> is very much in line with Paula’s sentiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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