{"id":218207,"date":"2020-02-12T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218207"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T22:07:15","slug":"couple-down-syndrome-beauty-love-kelly-clarkson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/couple-down-syndrome-beauty-love-kelly-clarkson\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple with Down syndrome shows beauty of their love on The Kelly Clarkson Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Nick and Gabi, who both have Down syndrome, met and fell in love, as many people do. But what makes their story special is that a video of them went viral and led to the couple&#8217;s appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KellyClarksonShow\/videos\/481483816131229\/\">The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video of Nick and Gabi features their surprise reunion and it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> beautiful. It&#8217;s raw emotion lived out in a world in which showing true feelings is often seen as something to be avoided. Nick and Gabi can&#8217;t contain that joy and that&#8217;s an amazing gift to have &#8211; to love someone and be loved by someone so much that you don&#8217;t think twice about showing it or letting other people see it. Their love is a <em>gift<\/em> to us all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KellyClarksonShow\/videos\/481483816131229\/\" data-width=\"1000\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KellyClarksonShow\/videos\/481483816131229\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KellyClarksonShow\/videos\/481483816131229\/\">Couple With Down Syndrome&#039;s Emotional Reunion Brings Everyone To Tears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;She&#039;s beautiful, she&#039;s amazing, and I&#039;m so proud&quot; ? It was love at first sight for Nick and Gabi when they met at a conference for people with Down Syndrome, but they forgot to trade contacts. Watch for the amazing story of how their moms helped reunite these lovebirds \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KellyClarksonShow\/\">The Kelly Clarkson Show<\/a> on Wednesday, February 5, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But when their parents first learned that Nick and Gabi had Down syndrome, those moments weren&#8217;t so joyful. Doctors didn&#8217;t burst into the room with happy tears celebrating the gift of a new baby. In fact, Nick&#8217;s mom told a shocked Kelly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>I think part of it for me is the guilt when he was born it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Uh I&#8217;m really sorry your son has Down syndrome.&#8221; That&#8217;s literally the way they deliver the message. And it is so opposite. So you feel, like, really sorry for yourself as a mom for a couple of weeks or minutes or whatever and then you just this, ya know, every day, every year has just been building&#8230; It is the best gift I&#8217;ve ever received.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kelly was surprised to learn that doctors often offer a negative perspective when delivering a diagnosis of Down syndrome, but that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s been for generations. Individuals with Down syndrome have been forced to prove their worth to society. But their worth isn&#8217;t in their abilities or their disabilities. They are worthy simply because they are human beings with intrinsic value that can not be taken away by society&#8217;s desire to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/iceland-isnt-eradicating-down-syndrome-it-is-killing-every-person-who-has-it\/\">eradicate<\/a>&#8221; Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lie-down-syndrome-son-abortion-truth\/\">People lie about children with Down syndrome, like my son, to encourage abortion. Here\u2019s the truth.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gabi&#8217;s mother shared the story of how no businesses would give Gabi a job because of her Down syndrome. So Gabi took matters into her own hands and started a coffee company called Gabi&#8217;s Grounds. She is raising money to open a cafe to employ other individuals with disabilities. She has wanted to have a restaurant since she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>The other guests on the show, including pro-choice comedian Whitney Cummings and chef Wolfgang Puck, along with the audience, applauded the love story and the coffee business. Cummings was even shown dabbing away tears.<\/p>\n<p>Watching individuals overcome the challenges in their lives &#8211; with or without disabilities &#8211; is inspirational. But Gabi and Nick also overcame targets placed on their backs by an abortion culture which preaches that women should be able to abort babies based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome or any other health condition. Yet those same individuals would likely applaud Nick and Gabi today.<\/p>\n<p>Through Nick and Gabi&#8217;s story, the world should be inspired to end discriminatory abortions &#8212; and <em>all<\/em> abortions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick and Gabi, who both have Down syndrome, met and fell in love, as many people do. But what makes their story special is that a video of them went viral and led to the couple&#8217;s appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. The video of Nick and Gabi features their surprise reunion and it\u00a0is beautiful. 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