Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: Jan 26 2007 at 5:41pm | IP Logged Quote Christine
I received the email below today. If anyone knows of a family who might be able to adopt this little one, please contact them. Actually, I am hoping that someone on this board might be in a position to adopt the baby.

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Subject: URGENT: Spina Bifida baby 2 B Aborted if not Adopted

Dear Friend,

As we reflect this month on 34 years of abortion under Roe, our friends at Hope for Orphans remind us that behind every abortion is a very real struggle between life and death. They have again asked for our help in finding a forever home for a baby in need.

A crisis pregnancy center in Toronto has been assisting a mom who is expecting twins next month. Recently she found out, that one of the babies (a boy) has Spina Bifida. This is a birth defect in which the spinal cord has not developed properly. According to the doctors this little unborn child's condition is severe. He is probably paralyzed from the waist down and will need a shunt because of hydrocephali (water on the brain).

The Mother cannot face this challenge and is booked to have a selective abortion of the spina bifida child in a few weeks.

The pregnancy center feels that if they can offer this mom a promise that a family will adopt the handicapped child she will carry him to term.

If you or someone you know would be willing and able to provide a home to this baby in need, please reply ASAP for more information.

Thank you and God bless you,
Kyleen Wright, president
Texans for Life Coalition
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Posted: Jan 26 2007 at 6:09pm | IP Logged Quote Kim F
A friend called to check the status of the baby a few days ago and the organization said they had a ton of volunteer families fwiw. She was willing to take the baby also but they said at this time they seemed to be covered.

A fwiw though, I saw on a Down's blog they were looking for a family for a baby a while back and they said for cases like that where the baby was already concieved and about to be born it would be best if families who were already in the "system" and screened etc applied since otherwise the baby would have to linger in foster care while the potential families got processed. That was something I hadn't even taken into consideration.

If anyone hears more about this particular case please let me know. Unfortunately from what the organization told my friend, the mother was about 25% open to the adoption option but her dh was pretty adamantly against it. I fear for the baby's life.

Kim : )

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We got an email about this baby a little bit ago and called. When dh was talking to the CPC woman, she commented that she has had loads of calls from the States but few if any from Canada. Our entire Church has been praying for this little one- we have named him baby Andre as Blessed Andre is a distant relative of ours and my ds insisted that that should be his name. We will try to call the beginning of next week to check on this little one. If I hear anything, I will post here.


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We'll keep praying. You are all so special.

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Posted: Jan 29 2007 at 12:38pm | IP Logged Quote shartlesville
Praying!

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