Why is this fashion model making headlines?
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Why does our society celebrate the rights of some but not others? Today's podcast explores the principles that explain our culture's rejection of the sanctity of life and offers two biblical responses.
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| 0:00.0 | Why is this fashion model making headlines? |
| 0:05.0 | This is Jim Denison's daily article for Wednesday, February 20th, 2019. |
| 0:10.0 | Madeline Stewart is an Australian fashion model. |
| 0:14.0 | As the Washington Post reports, she is in high demand today. |
| 0:18.0 | Madeline's career started when her mother arranged a professional photo shoot for her and put |
| 0:22.3 | some of the pictures on Facebook. |
| 0:24.3 | They went viral overnight, racking up more than 7 million views. |
| 0:28.3 | The offers started pouring in. |
| 0:30.3 | She was invited to model in New York, Paris, China, London, Sweden, and Dubai. |
| 0:34.9 | She has now walked more than 100 high-fashioned catwalks. She has more than 1 million |
| 0:39.0 | followers on social media and her own clothing line. Madeline also has Down syndrome. I'm happy to change |
| 0:45.9 | the way the world looks at people with disabilities, Madeline says. I want the world to be more |
| 0:49.6 | accepting. That is my dream. In other news, Wheelchair Barbie is coming to stores. |
| 0:55.0 | In June, Mattel will debut a doll that comes with a prosthetic leg and another that comes with a wheelchair. |
| 1:01.0 | More than one billion people in the world have a disability, according to Jennifer Laslo, Mizrahi, |
| 1:06.0 | president of a group that advocates for the disabled. |
| 1:08.0 | We want to see ourselves reflected in the culture, toys, products, and everything around us, |
| 1:12.6 | she says. |
| 1:14.0 | Ms. Rehi adds, |
| 1:15.3 | Barbie joins a number of powerful companies who also understand that marketing, and including, |
| 1:19.9 | people with disabilities, is both the right thing to do and the profitable thing to do. |
| 1:24.4 | One more news item. |
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