Down Syndrome

Wow. I just read an article in our local newspaper that a 'risk-free' prenatal test for Down Syndrome has been developed. I'm not sure how I feel about that. What do you think?

I'd never in a million years wish the birth of a disabled child onto a family. It's very hard and often tears that family apart. A child who needs life-long care is not what most people bargain for. Do parents have the right to avoid that at all costs?

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TO MY LOVING AUNT

On April 30th 1922 a most wonderful woman was born. Her name was Myrtle “Moe” Weathers. Later in life she met and married Eugene Perrier and became Myrtle "Moe" Weathers Perrier.
In 1958 when I was born she became Aunt Moe.

Aunt Moe had three children two girls and one boy. The two girls are now known as Sister Rochelle Perrier, M.S.C. and Sister Christine Perrier, M.S.C. both became nuns of the Marianites of Holy Cross. The one son is now known as Father Thomas Perrier, O.S.B. a Catholic priest.

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Everyday at the same time I pass a man and his daughter walking on the street. The man is always walking at least 20 feet to half a block in front of his teenage daughter, who has Down’s syndrome.

The first time I saw them I didn’t think about it, because occasionally we get ahead of the person we’re with by some random act of shoe-tying or such. But after several weeks of passing these two, I suddenly realized today that the man NEVER walks with the girl.

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