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<p>I wasn’t going to respond to the following comment I just received on <a href="http://www.mostlytruestuff.com/2011/10/my-angry-down-syndrome-awareness-post.html" target="_blank">My Angry Down Syndrome Awareness</a> post that I wrote last year. This person’s statements had been well crafted and had the ring of something she’d probably said a thousand times before. Someone who comes and posts such a thing is not easily swayed. I haven’t been able to get the things she said out of my head though, because too many women have been deceived into believing the same thing. I write this too, because I’ve received MANY other emails and comments that echo the same following sentiments: <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1588" title="Permanent Link: In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(1567 words, estimated 6:16  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

<div class="post-teaser-block">This is a preview of <q>In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome</q>. <a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=1588" title="Permanent Link: In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome" rel="bookmark">Read the full post (1567 words, estimated 6:16  mins reading time)</a></div>{"id":1588,"date":"2013-03-25T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2013-08-15T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T22:26:27","slug":"in-defense-of-my-position-on-abortion-and-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t going to respond to the following comment I just received on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostlytruestuff.com\/2011\/10\/my-angry-down-syndrome-awareness-post.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Angry Down Syndrome Awareness<\/a>\u00a0post that I wrote last year. 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I write this too, because I\u2019ve received MANY other emails and comments that echo the same following sentiments: <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1588\" title=\"Permanent Link: In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(1567 words, estimated 6:16  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1588\" title=\"Permanent Link: In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (1567 words, estimated 6:16  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=1588\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Defense of My Position on Abortion and Down Syndrome - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; I wasn\u2019t going to respond to the following comment I just received on\u00a0My Angry Down Syndrome Awareness\u00a0post that I wrote last year. 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