Down's Syndrome

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Yea, Mikey!!!...

Houston waiter refuses to serve customer who insulted Down syndrome boy
January 20, 2013 - A Houston waiter's Facebook page has been inundated with friend requests and messages after a story of how he stood up for a special needs child went viral.

Michael Garcia, a waiter at Laurenzo's, was serving a family who have been regulars since the restaurant opened. The family includes 5-year-old Milo, who has Down syndrome. "Milo wasn't being bad, he was just talking and making little noises," Garcia told FoxNews.com. But a customer at a nearby table who was also with his family began making comments about Milo. The customer got up from the table and moved his family to another table further away from Milo, but still in Garcia's serving section.

Garcia said the man continued talking about Milo and said, "special needs children need to be special somewhere else." "My personal feelings took over because that's ignorance in my opinion and I told him 'Sir, I won't be able to serve you,'" Garcia tells FoxNews.com. The man and his family got up and left the restaurant, while Milo's family was unaware of the incident at all. "Maybe there were other ways I could have handled it, but Milo is such an angel, he is a gift from God as are all special needs children," Garcia said.

Garcia did not tell Milo's family of the incident because he didn't want to cause them any pain. He compared his actions to wanting to shield someone and said he hopes someone would do the same for his family. Another server told Milo's family what Garcia had done. "We can't lose track of what this is about," Garcia said about the amount of attention the story has gotten. "It is about Milo, it is about educating ourselves and when people are different, why should you treat them any different?" "It's fear of the unknown," he said.

Read more: Houston waiter refuses to serve customer who insulted Down syndrome boy | Fox News

 

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Protect Rights of Down Syndrome Americans in ‘Our Communities, Our Families, Our Culture’
December 7, 2016 – Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) made remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday in defense of an award-winning “Dear Future Mom” video, which was banned from airing on French television due to concerns that the expressions of happy children with Down syndrome in the video were “inappropriate” because they were "likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices.”

Lee read a column by George F. Will, which criticized the French court’s decision. “The court has said, in effect,” Will wrote, “that the lives of Down syndrome people — and by inescapable implication, the lives of many other disabled people — matter less than the serenity of people who have acted on one or more of three vicious principles.”

Will outlined the principles as: “That the lives of the disabled are not worth living. Or that the lives of the disabled are of negligible value next to the desire of parents to have a child who has no special, meaning inconvenient, needs. Or that government should suppress the voices of Down syndrome children in order to guarantee other people’s right not to be disturbed by reminders that they have made lethal choices on the basis of one or both of the first two inappropriate principles.”

Lee said that during this “time of change in our politics, here’s hoping it can be a season of change in our hearts as well.” “Here in the United States, the free speech rights of groups like the Global Down Syndrome Foundation to produce videos like ‘Dear Future Mom’ – which I highly recommend - are protected by the First Amendment,” he continued. “But the rights of actual Americans with Down syndrome – both born and unborn – can only be protected by their fellow citizens,” Lee emphasized, “and not just in our laws, but in our communities … our families… our culture.” “This time of year, we would all do well to remember the life-changing joy that can come from the birth of a single, unexpected, and special child,” he said, “and also to remember the courage of their mothers and fathers, who chose life… the heroes who chose to make room at the inn.”

This past year, the issue of the targeting of unborn children with Down syndrome for abortion came up both in the U.S. and abroad. Planned Parenthood sued Indiana in April when it attempted to enact a law banning abortions based solely on a diagnosis of a disability such as Down syndrome. A judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the law in July. Also in the UK, the approval of a new, highly accurate prenatal screening test met backlash from the Don’t Screen Us Out campaign over concerns that its implementation is projected to result in a profound increase in the number of children with Down syndrome screened out by termination.

Sen. Mike Lee: Protect Rights of Down Syndrome Americans in ‘Our Communities, Our Families, Our Culture’