Pro-life blog buzz 7-13-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Stand True reports the Melinda Gates Family Planning Summit tried to eject Wendy Wright, who was there representing C-FAM, when she was recognized by abortion proponents:
Attendance at the conference has been tightly controlled. Only supporting governments and organizations have been allowed into the event. All non-governmental attendees had to be approved by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which has been organizing “civil society” participation. IPPF has refused admittance to any group that is critical of the Gates family planning initiative which intends to raise $6 billion to target poor women for population control programs.
- John Smeaton believes that though Gates (pictured left, with Microsoft-founder husband Bill) has publicly stated she does not want her $4B donated toward family planning in third-world countries to go toward abortion, it likely will anyway:
- Stand for Life lists 15 things pro-lifers can do to “wake up” churches to the pro-life issue.
- Secular Pro-Life highlights the International Down Syndrome Coalition, “a religiously- and politically-neutral organization dedicated to supporting individuals with Down syndrome and their families.”
- ProWomanProLife wonders why most pro-choice blogs are anonymous, since abortion advocates are supposedly “testifying to the normalcy and neutrality of abortion,” and suggests that blogging anonymously may hurt your credibility. The comments section is particularly interesting.
- ProLife NZ brings to light the disturbing trend toward stifling free speech (in particular, pro-life speech) on college campuses around the world.
When “contraceptive failure” occurs, and a baby is conceived, family planning NGOs will promote chemical or surgical abortion as a back-up. Far from avoiding abortions, the Gates family planning summit may increase the number. Increasing contraceptive prevalence may often increase abortion rates, contrary to expectations.
- The New Feminism addresses women who seem to believe that babies are “accessories,” and who “juggl[e] the ‘baby option’ with the ‘mortgage option,’ the ‘cruise option’ or the ‘new job option’:
Our young women are entitled to the truth, not an illusion. Having a child may well be something a woman decides not to do, but it’s not an item you can expect to juggle like a new job, mortgage or car, a function of timing, dollars and favorable government programs. No, babies are not an accessory. A baby will take your life away from you – and hand back something so unexpected and magnificent that you will tear up your youthful To Do with a laugh, infused with the stunning wisdom nurturing women share.
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Jul.13, 2012 3:30 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
One thing not discussed which I think should be discussed is if part of the reason so few women have babies and place for adoption is that this can’t be kept private while an abortion can. The big belly advertises the pregnant state to the world.
I recall as a young teenager trying on clothes that I was disturbed by an outfit because I thought it made me look pregnant. As you might guess, we didn’t but that outfit.
I asked a friend who aborted many years ago, “Do you ever wish you’d given birth and placed the baby for adoption?”
She replied, “No, because I wouldn’t have wanted people to see me pregnant.”
Oh..I commented over on “ProWomanProLife” on what I think of the term “Pro-Choice” alright. ;)
Wow, on that ProWomanProLife comment section, are pro-abortionists *really* that insane or do they just think we’re that stupid? Don’t get me wrong, I know they are insane, believing it’s good and just and right to kill innocent human beings does classify one as insane, but (generally) a different insane that say, howling at the moon and talking to imaginary blue men. Do they *really* believe the Pro-life side to be the violent ones who endanger those who oppose them?? Can you be that oblivious and still functional enough to hold a job, pay bills, or tie shoes? Even a cursory glance at crime reporting finds more ‘pro-life’ women who wanted to keep their babies dead at the hands of their ‘pro-choice’ boyfriends, spouses, significant others, or family/friends of the above in the past year than abortionists or abortion minded women/men killed at the hands of pro-lifers in the past decade. Threatening women with rape? Pretty much the exclusive ground of pro-abortionists! Assaulting the ‘other side’? More occurances of pro-choice assualts against pro-life in the last year than the last decade the other way around (or do they *really* think holding a sign in ‘assault’ but hitting someone isn’t?)
Frankly I give them the benefit of the doubt, they can’t really be that insane, they are just so egotistical that they think we’re stupid enough to bow down and grovel if they play the ‘victim’ card enough. And they must reason since we *don’t* get violent (which they well know) we’ll passively allow them to get away with turning reality on it’s head to make themselves into the victims.
Think about their ‘logic’ for a moment: They’re all for killing an innocent baby, tearing him/her into pieces, and not even recognizing a pre-born baby as a HUMAN BEING….
but WE (Pro-lifers) are the violent ones???
Churches can start to aknowledge that, helping women who have had aboritons or who are abortion minded or who are pregnant and in crisis, is more important that sending their parishes to mission overseas in Africa, or to help the poor financially in Mexico, or helping the environment.
Helping your women in your own parish find security in single crisis pregnancy situations is so vital to winning this war on women, and babies in the womb–yet no churches have regular Rachel’s Vineyard or regular Optionline.org ads in their bulletin to create a sense of awareness in their communites about the magnificent reasons not to panic if they get pregnant. I had to pay to have an ad printed in the local Catholic church bulletin, and the local pregnancy center said women were coming in from that ad-however, I had to stop publishing the ad because I no longer could afford it-so now babies are dying and women are losing their families through the abortions that that church is doing nothing to stop–and yes, I did ask several people in the Chruch to print the ad. I was rejected and laughed at-being a single woman and all.
To help single women-who are really marginalized and ready prey for men looking for free sex-especially if the women are lonely and without immediate family-men in the church have to start defending their female congregation members with these resources as regular publishings in the bulletins.
I say do it regularly, because that way the female laity have, in print, the Church’s promise to not humiliate them or accuse them in their time of crisis, but to help them-and it’s a well known thing to every one i the community that the pregnant woman needs to be seen as nothing less than a vital community asset carrying the most precious and vital resource their community could dream of asking for: the pre-born child.
Alot of churches are afraid this will encourage single motherhood-but it does just the opposite-it helps young men value women as potential mothers, instead of potential sluts–thus counteracting the depiction of women as material objects to be profited off of in the sex-industry (ie-condoms-abortion-pornography-lewd clothing-sexual enhancement drugs sold over the counter at the local drug store-american apparel ads).
Women can defend themselves from such accusations as “slut, whore, adulterer,” when they are treated as more than just free help.
Women benefit when they are seen as the bearers of the communities future. It certainly puts more responsibility on men to help out…. maybe that’s why more pastors and priests don’t have regularly help for women in their bulletins-they don’t want the responsibility-they don’t want any single pregnant women in crisis to expect them to know what to do to help. This makes them just as guilty of committing abortions as the women who commit them-the women who’s souls they have claimed a duty to preserve by occupying the position of Priest or Bishop-but by not protecting their flock from the wolves, how much more are them condemned. Then men might get a complaint from some uppity old lady who’s a die-hard ‘feminist,’ but the insults he will have to bear for helping out the pregnant marginalized woman are nothing compared to what she will have to deal with in and out of the church-so he should stick his neck out that little bit for these women in his parish.
The sex trade is big business–it’s time our communities stand up to all the blood money with basic grass roots print campaigns and local-yokal small town smarts. Our women can’t take the hypocrisy of their men any more, and Planned Parenthood has plenty of cool aide to go around. Now, with the Mandate, it’s not only free for them to drink-but, like it or not, we’re paying for it.
~RP•2012~
Bobbie, our church doesn’t really put any fliers in their pamplets ‘regularly’. But the women’s restroom is papered with tear-away-phone-number fliers for Rachel’s Vineyard as well as our church’s post-abortive group, as well as numerious fliers for the local CPC the church is attatched with. The fliers are both in the common area of the bathrooms *and*, I assume for privacy purposes if someone is ashamed to be seen taking one, in the stalls as well. We also have, right outside the sanctuary doors, our library of books, which includes not only several books on adoption but a few on crisis pregnancy and post-abortive healing as well. The church is very open about wanting to help post-abortive women as well as condeming abortion, the pastor has brought up both in the natural course of his sermons repeatedly and the speaker I heard at the Christmas women’s gathering (a member of the church) spoke openly about her past abortion. Not *all* churches ignore such things.
In fact the response you describe from your church would make my husband and I be asking some tough questions of the elders and pastor and, depending upon answers, finding another church. There are plenty of solid, Biblical, unafraid churches out there, you just have to look.
Guys, despite my recent involvement in responding here, I’ve got a lot going on in life right now & I’m feeling really stressed and overwhelmed. I just need prayers and positive thoughts sent my way.
Rachael, you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Rachel,
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil.
Bobbi’s statement is, inasmuch as she might disagree, an eloquent and elegant plea for the all male Catholic Church to start ordaining pro-life women. Think of what a difference they could make. I’m not being snarky, either.
inasmuch as she might disagree
uh, CC, reminder: Women can speak for themselves and don’t need you to tell them what they really mean.
I’m not being snarky, either.
I don’t believe you.
Only someone who hasn’t been inside a church would think it was all male. In fact, it’s overwhelmingly female in the pews. And not female in the collar. Which we like just fine, thank you very please.
Bobbi,
Check out The Gabriel Project
http://www.gabrielproject.com/faq.htm
It is a program in which parishioners assist women in need with friendship and coordinate their needs such as transportation for medical care, housing, employment, food, material needs and baby needs. Local resources can sometimes meet these needs, but the Church acts as a safety net and assures the expectant mother that she will be cared for (during her pregnancy and while her children are growing).
Not all churches are participants in the Gabriel Project yet, but as more churches become aware of this, an increasing number are. Those churches who are participants, feature a sign on church property which says something along the lines of “Pregnant? Need Help” and features the local hotline number for the Gabriel Project. The key to the Gabriel Project is a whole church response. So yes, parishioners in the Catholic Church are starting to take an interest in helping those facing an unplanned pregnancy. Also, I believe, if they receive a call seeking counseling for after an abortion, they will refer to the proper programs (such as Rachel’s Vineyard) as well.
Thanks for the info, Rachel C.