Sunday, January 29, 2012

A father's love

Rick Santorum is off the campaign trail to be home with his three-year-old daughter, who has fallen ill. According to Newsmax, "Isabella Santorum has Trisomy 18, a genetic condition caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 18th chromosome. When asked about her, Santorum says his daughter was not expected to survive until her first birthday and often has to catch himself to stop from tears."

The quote from Santorum that caught my eye was this one: " I look at the simplicity and love she emits," Santorum said in a Web video his campaign released after his scheduling drew questions, "and it's clear to me we're the disabled ones." That reminds me of Jill Bolte Taylor's book My Stroke of Insight. Dr. Taylor writes that she will never again look with pity on people who are so-called disabled, because from her experience as a stroke victim she realizes that so-called disabled people may well have strengths and insights that we so-called able people do not have.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Santorum-Daughter-cancel-Republican/2012/01/29/id/425838?s=al&promo_code=E100-1

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