Thursday, September 25, 2014

Heroic News: “Down syndrome + Alzheimer's = unique challenge for families” plus 4 more

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Adults with Down syndrome are at high risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, and at an earlier age than the population as a whole. At least 25 percent of those older than 40 have Alzheimer's, and more than 50 percent of those over 60 do, compared with 6 percent of those over 60 in the overall population.
Support for same-sex "marriage" is down by five points since 2010, according to a new Pew Research poll.
A waitress who also happened to serve as the executive director of a Texas group that gives money to poor pregnant women who want to abort said she chose principle over money and dumped thousand dollar tips from one of her most famous customers — Rush Limbaugh — into the charity box.
This isn’t the first time she’s sounded in favor of eugenics. Ginsburg caused a stir in July 2009 when she made comments about the Roe v. Wade abortion case that appeared racist. In an interview with the New York Times, Ginsburg said made it appear she supported Roe for population control reasons targeting minorities.
"I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision,” said Hillary Rodham Clinton, “I am really in awe of her, there are a lot of lessons we can learn from her life.”