Fifty years ago last month, the birth control pill revolutionized women's health. The term "women's health" is, of course, a euphemism for sterilization and abortion (often coerced), with the ultimate goal of population control and reduction.
Here are three related quotes- food for thought that I just can't stomach.
Obama's top science advisor, John P. Holdren:
"A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.... The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
David Browner, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club:
"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license ... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
Seeing as how Planned Parenthood is the great champion of "women's health", I'll close this post with this little gem from founder Margaret Sanger:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
source
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wow!
The California octuplets have six older siblings.
Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and after finding out she was pregnant with multiple babies was given the option by doctors of selectively reducing the number of embryos. The woman declined.
"What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed," Suleman told the Times. "That is a very painful thing."
I can only imagine that she was under tremendous pressure to "selectively reduce" (despite her mothers comment that she was merely given the option). I can almost hear her doctors' arguments... You already have six other children. This pregnancy is extremely dangerous. Seven is too many (the eighth baby was a complete surprise at delivery). You could loose them all. You could die.
They called it "reduction" of "embryos". But she refused to KILL her BABIES.
God bless them all!
Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and after finding out she was pregnant with multiple babies was given the option by doctors of selectively reducing the number of embryos. The woman declined.
"What do you suggest she should have done? She refused to have them killed," Suleman told the Times. "That is a very painful thing."
I can only imagine that she was under tremendous pressure to "selectively reduce" (despite her mothers comment that she was merely given the option). I can almost hear her doctors' arguments... You already have six other children. This pregnancy is extremely dangerous. Seven is too many (the eighth baby was a complete surprise at delivery). You could loose them all. You could die.
They called it "reduction" of "embryos". But she refused to KILL her BABIES.
God bless them all!
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I'm glad it's over
Yesterday, we got exactly what we deserve, Lord help us.
I present to you our President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama as I will always picture him.
It disgusts me to think of the millions of innocent babies who will be slaughtered because of this man's promise to sign FOCA into law. God, have mercy, not that we deserve it.
I present to you our President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama as I will always picture him.It disgusts me to think of the millions of innocent babies who will be slaughtered because of this man's promise to sign FOCA into law. God, have mercy, not that we deserve it.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Life Chain is Tomorrow (10-5)
from the official website:
LIFE CHAIN is a peaceful and prayerful public witness of pro-life Americans standing for one hour praying for our nation and for an end of abortion. It is a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian community that abortion kills children and that the Church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception.
If you cannot stand, bring a chair and sit. If you cannot give one hour, give as much time as you have. If you cannot get to the site in your community, offer your prayers at home. If there is no site in your community, prayerfully consider starting one. But please, do what you can.
LIFE CHAIN is a peaceful and prayerful public witness of pro-life Americans standing for one hour praying for our nation and for an end of abortion. It is a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian community that abortion kills children and that the Church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception.
If you cannot stand, bring a chair and sit. If you cannot give one hour, give as much time as you have. If you cannot get to the site in your community, offer your prayers at home. If there is no site in your community, prayerfully consider starting one. But please, do what you can.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Saturday, March 3, 2007
The Long Answer to Question Three
Now for the long answer.
The whole premise of the Roe vs. Wade case was that a poor, young woman was seeking an abortion after being the victim of a gang rape. Norma McCorvey, the (in)famous Ms. Roe has since come out with the truth; it was all a lie. She says that she was used by her lawyers and the organization who hired them. She was never raped, and she never had an abortion. In fact, by the time the Supreme Court issued its ruling, her child was two years old.
Since 1973, there have been approximately 48 million surgical abortions performed in the United States. No more than 1% of all these abortions have been performed because of rape and less than .5% were performed after cases of incest. Even setting aside the moral issues, it simply does not make sense to base this country's extremely liberal abortion policy on the very rarest of circumstances. (Any woman can get an abortion in this country at any point during pregnancy and for any reason, even against the wishes of the baby's father. By far, the majority of abortions are performed because of the opinion that a baby would be too inconvenient or too expensive. I do not necessarily believe this is always the actual opinion of the mother; I believe many women are convinced of this by coercive partners, relatives, friends, and medical providers.)
Because this situation is so rare, it is hard to find statistics on the outcomes of rape/incest victims who become pregnant to compare those who had abortions with those who did not. However, two studies have been done on small samples of women who became pregnant as a result of sexual assault. Very few of these women said they actually wanted an abortion. Of the women who had abortions 95% of them later regretted the decision. They reported that at the time they felt pressured by others, and they reported that the abortion made them feel violated even further. Of the women who did not choose abortion, not one regretted giving birth to her child.
So there is good evidence that abortion is not the best answer for the woman. And, of course, it is NEVER a good solution for the child. An unborn baby is no more or less a living human being because of the circumstances of his conception. Not even the rapist is given the death penalty! Why should an innocent baby be sentenced to death for her father's actions?
As for the issue of very young girls getting pregnant, statistics show that it is better emotionally and physically for a teenager to carry the pregnancy to term rather than abort. Girls who had an abortion were five times more likely to seek help for psychological and emotional problems than girls who carried their "unwanted" pregnancies to term. They were more likely to be depressed or suicidal and more prone to substance abuse. Teenagers also suffer the physical and medical side effects of abortion much more frequently than older women. Clearly, abortion is not the best solution to the problem of "teen mothers". I am astounded at how many people actually seem to think that abortion is a better option than adoption for these girls! They will say it is an unfair burden for the girl to give away her baby and then "never know" her child. I believe it would be a far heavier burden for her to know (or later realize) that she had killed her child!
As I stated in my short answer, by far the most important reason to oppose abortion regardless of the circumstances is because an unborn baby is a living human being, and you cannot justify taking an innocent human life, ever. Science is proving more and more the humanity of the unborn, and I think this is only appropriate at a time when politically that humanity has been under attack.
Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.
I used several internet sources for this little "essay" of mine, including Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions by the Guttmacher Institute; links in the "Research" section at AfterAbortion.org ; and finally several informative links at Abortion- the UnChoice.
The whole premise of the Roe vs. Wade case was that a poor, young woman was seeking an abortion after being the victim of a gang rape. Norma McCorvey, the (in)famous Ms. Roe has since come out with the truth; it was all a lie. She says that she was used by her lawyers and the organization who hired them. She was never raped, and she never had an abortion. In fact, by the time the Supreme Court issued its ruling, her child was two years old.
Since 1973, there have been approximately 48 million surgical abortions performed in the United States. No more than 1% of all these abortions have been performed because of rape and less than .5% were performed after cases of incest. Even setting aside the moral issues, it simply does not make sense to base this country's extremely liberal abortion policy on the very rarest of circumstances. (Any woman can get an abortion in this country at any point during pregnancy and for any reason, even against the wishes of the baby's father. By far, the majority of abortions are performed because of the opinion that a baby would be too inconvenient or too expensive. I do not necessarily believe this is always the actual opinion of the mother; I believe many women are convinced of this by coercive partners, relatives, friends, and medical providers.)
Because this situation is so rare, it is hard to find statistics on the outcomes of rape/incest victims who become pregnant to compare those who had abortions with those who did not. However, two studies have been done on small samples of women who became pregnant as a result of sexual assault. Very few of these women said they actually wanted an abortion. Of the women who had abortions 95% of them later regretted the decision. They reported that at the time they felt pressured by others, and they reported that the abortion made them feel violated even further. Of the women who did not choose abortion, not one regretted giving birth to her child.
So there is good evidence that abortion is not the best answer for the woman. And, of course, it is NEVER a good solution for the child. An unborn baby is no more or less a living human being because of the circumstances of his conception. Not even the rapist is given the death penalty! Why should an innocent baby be sentenced to death for her father's actions?
As for the issue of very young girls getting pregnant, statistics show that it is better emotionally and physically for a teenager to carry the pregnancy to term rather than abort. Girls who had an abortion were five times more likely to seek help for psychological and emotional problems than girls who carried their "unwanted" pregnancies to term. They were more likely to be depressed or suicidal and more prone to substance abuse. Teenagers also suffer the physical and medical side effects of abortion much more frequently than older women. Clearly, abortion is not the best solution to the problem of "teen mothers". I am astounded at how many people actually seem to think that abortion is a better option than adoption for these girls! They will say it is an unfair burden for the girl to give away her baby and then "never know" her child. I believe it would be a far heavier burden for her to know (or later realize) that she had killed her child!
As I stated in my short answer, by far the most important reason to oppose abortion regardless of the circumstances is because an unborn baby is a living human being, and you cannot justify taking an innocent human life, ever. Science is proving more and more the humanity of the unborn, and I think this is only appropriate at a time when politically that humanity has been under attack.
Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.
I used several internet sources for this little "essay" of mine, including Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions by the Guttmacher Institute; links in the "Research" section at AfterAbortion.org ; and finally several informative links at Abortion- the UnChoice.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Question Number Three
Why do you support the catholic view on abortion even in extreme instances of rape, incest, and under-age?
The short answer: because I believe that an unborn child, at any stage of development, is a human being with an immortal soul who has been created by God. Since it can never be acceptable to intentionally kill an innocent person (murder is never justifiable), abortion cannot be acceptable no matter what the circumstances.
Long answer to follow...
God bless!
(I found this image here, the website for Priests for Life.)
The short answer: because I believe that an unborn child, at any stage of development, is a human being with an immortal soul who has been created by God. Since it can never be acceptable to intentionally kill an innocent person (murder is never justifiable), abortion cannot be acceptable no matter what the circumstances.
Long answer to follow...
God bless!
(I found this image here, the website for Priests for Life.)
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Many Parts, One Body
I was really struck by the second reading for today's Mass. Particularly the following passage:
"the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable"
When threatened, we naturally protect the most vulnerable parts of our body. St. Paul seems to be telling us that in a similar way, God has designed the Body of Christ so that the weakest members should be offered the most protection.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Since this decision, there have been more than 47,317,840 surgical abortions peformed in the United States. Figure courtesy of Priests for Life. The Guttmacher Institute, which works closely with Planned Parenthood (now there's a misnomer) reports statistics that appear to be similar if not exactly the same. That number is so big it threatens to become meaningless. To break it down, that would be an average of more than 1,391,701 abortions a year-more than 158 an hour.
The tragedy of innocent life lost is terrible enough to consider, but we also must keep in mind the mothers, fathers, and families of these babies. I once heard it said that a woman chooses an abortion the same way a trapped fox chooses to chew off her foot. As a matter of fact, women who have had abortions will often say they thought they had no choice. Ministries to post-abortive women are increasing, and programs like Raechel's Vineyard and Silent No More are reaching out to offer healing for mothers (and fathers!) who lost their babies to abortion.
It is time for us, as a people, to consider the state of affairs when pregnant women so often feel their only recourse is to destroy their unborn child. We have to be brutally honest with ourselves and ask how we have participated in what John Paul the Great named the culture of death. Surely the innocent blood of these little ones cries out for vengeance.
May God bless and protect all the weakest members of His Body, and may He grant us His mercy.
"the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable"
When threatened, we naturally protect the most vulnerable parts of our body. St. Paul seems to be telling us that in a similar way, God has designed the Body of Christ so that the weakest members should be offered the most protection.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. Since this decision, there have been more than 47,317,840 surgical abortions peformed in the United States. Figure courtesy of Priests for Life. The Guttmacher Institute, which works closely with Planned Parenthood (now there's a misnomer) reports statistics that appear to be similar if not exactly the same. That number is so big it threatens to become meaningless. To break it down, that would be an average of more than 1,391,701 abortions a year-more than 158 an hour.
The tragedy of innocent life lost is terrible enough to consider, but we also must keep in mind the mothers, fathers, and families of these babies. I once heard it said that a woman chooses an abortion the same way a trapped fox chooses to chew off her foot. As a matter of fact, women who have had abortions will often say they thought they had no choice. Ministries to post-abortive women are increasing, and programs like Raechel's Vineyard and Silent No More are reaching out to offer healing for mothers (and fathers!) who lost their babies to abortion.
It is time for us, as a people, to consider the state of affairs when pregnant women so often feel their only recourse is to destroy their unborn child. We have to be brutally honest with ourselves and ask how we have participated in what John Paul the Great named the culture of death. Surely the innocent blood of these little ones cries out for vengeance.
May God bless and protect all the weakest members of His Body, and may He grant us His mercy.
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