With Roe Gone, Why Are TV Analysts Complaining About Disabled Children?
Author and Mother of a Severely Disabled Child Available
Roe v. Wade overturned: CNN pundit cites relatives with Down syndrome, autism to defend abortions
Ana Navarro cites her disabled relatives to defend abortion and people are horrified
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Kelly Speck, author of Hope in the Heartache: The Journey of Grace and Growth with a Special Needs Child. Speck is a part-time accountant and full-time mother to three children, including Bennett, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy.
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CNN’s Ana Navarro recently cited her own relatives with Down syndrome and autism to defend abortion.
"I have a family with a lot of special needs kids," Navarro said. "I have a brother who's 57 and has the mental and motor skills of a one-year-old. And I know what that means financially, emotionally, physically for a family. And I know not all families can do it."
"And I have a step-granddaughter who was born with Down syndrome. And you know what? It is very difficult in Florida to get services. It is not as easy as it sounds on paper. And I've got another- another step-grandson who is very autistic, who has autism," Navarro told Stewart.
She continued, "There are mothers and there are people who are in that society or in that community will tell you that they've considered suicide because that's how difficult it is to get help, because that's how lonely they feel, because they can't get other jobs because they have financial issues, because the care that they're able to give their other children suffers.”
But every unborn life is sacred, even the disabled, says special needs mom and author, Kelly Speck.
She gave birth to her son Bennett, who was born blue, and he was barely alive.
Kelly says she wouldn’t change a thing. “Life is not easy. Yet the beauty of a baby simply breathing is something we can never take for granted…as a society. How can we be so flippant regarding who we deem worthy of living or not?”
Ask Kelly Speck:
• Her thoughts about Roe V. Wade being overturned
• The extent of her son Bennett’s disabilities
• Does she ever feel guilty about bringing a son into the world who can’t care for himself
• How having Bennett has changed her and her family’s life
Kelly writes about her experience raising a special needs child in her book.
Hope in the Heartache, Kelly Speck’s true-to-life and immaculately detailed memoir, tells of Bennett’s fight to survive and his family’s journey through grief and exhaustion in hospitals, churches, and insurance offices. The Specks never lost faith, and in their devotion to God and family, they learned what matters most: hope.
Hope in the Heartache: The Journey of Grace and Growth with a Special Needs Child is at once a devastating and uplifting story. It’s for anyone who has faced trauma, for anyone supporting a loved one in crisis, and for anyone who needs to know how it might feel to confront — and overcome — true heartache.
Kelly Speck once thought she would spend her life as a working mom and wife, hustling in Corporate America while volunteering for the PTA. Life’s numerous curveballs, however, have prompted an evolution; she now considers herself a recovering type-A planner.
For more than twenty years now, she has performed accounting in an array of industries while maintaining a strong marriage to her college sweetheart, Travis. Kelly and Travis have three children who have, along with her deep faith, humbled her profoundly.
When her high school friends voted her "Most Likely to Drive a Minivan," she scoffed and declared that would never happen. Ironically, the Specks currently own not one but two minivans.
Kelly's favorite of the two has a ramp for her oldest son, Bennett, a quadriplegic, and she considers it the world’s greatest honor to serve as chauffeur for him and his two younger siblings. As she faces work’s daily challenges while remaining a proud wife, mom, and caregiver for Bennett, Kelly's mantra is: life is not always easy, but it is always beautiful.
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BIO: Kelly Speck is the author of Hope in the Heartache: The Journey of Grace and Growth with a Special Needs Child, a true-to-life and immaculately detailed memoir, which tells of Bennett’s fight to survive and the Speck family’s journey through grief and exhaustion in hospitals, churches, and insurance offices. The Specks never lost faith, and in their devotion to God and family, they learned what matters most: hope.
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Kelly Speck, author of Hope in the Heartache: The Journey of Grace and Growth with a Special Needs Child. Speck is a part-time accountant and full-time mother to three children, including Bennett, who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy.