Dear ProLife Colleague, Here is a 4 minute video letter to those who would abort a Down Syndrome baby (and a letter to those who wouldn’t!), —-and to their doctors!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVxz71ygHbk aaplog FYI: Meeting announcement from Augustine College, Ottawa, CA: Our annual summer conference series continues in 2012 (June 3-9) with Augustine’s Impact on Christian Civilization, a newly conceived Module III. Since 2002 Augustine College has presented a week-long conference on the topic of medicine seen against the backdrop of the ‘big picture of Western history’. With what principles and moral commitments did Western medicine begin, as it emerged from its Greek roots? What shape did medicine take in the traditional cultures of Jews, Christians, and Muslims – what ends did it traditionally serve? And how was that understanding of medicine protected by the flowering of a profoundly Christian civilization? As medicine has advanced, over the centuries, vastly increasing its technical powers, what also has it lost? Have the idea and the ends of medicine changed? How well equipped is medicine, in its 21st-century form, to serve the end it once accepted: caring for the full human being who is ill? For details, go to: http://www.augustinecollege.org/conference.html