Pro-life video of the day: Your children are not your own
by Hans Johnson
An old proverb from the Native American Mohawk tribe says: “Your children are not your own, but are lent to you from the Creator.” Not exactly, says MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry in a promo for her weekend show:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/N3qtpdSQox0[/youtube]
As Newsbusters’ Ken Shepherd wrote:
On March 23, my colleague Mark Finkelstein noted how MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry considers the unborn child a “thing” which takes a “lot of money” to “turn into a human,” costing thousands of dollars to care for each year of his/her life. Now it appears that Harris-Perry thinks that, after they’re born, children fundamentally belong to the state.
Ms. Harris-Perry has since double-downed on her blog. Read Ken Shepherd’s analysis here.
At Fox News, Megyn Kelly and two panelists also weigh in on Harris-Perry’s comments.
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[HT: Kelli]
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.
What did the Mohawks know?
According to liberals, the state is the Creator and yes, it owns your children. Lend them to you? Well, don’t hold your breath.
She’s basically these guys with a better PR team.
And if children belong to the state, then the state has the right to make women abort their children if the state thinks they will be a financial drain on the state, or if the state deems them unhealthy, or if the state thinks they are just more of the wrong kind of people.
I guess that “it’s a woman’s choice” thing isn’t working so well anymore, eh, Melissa? So now it’s the state’s choice.
My children are not the state’s.
They are God’s.
There are plenty of moment-by-moment things I would not have done, or would have done, if I were not placed in this parent role by God, and accountable to God.
This is the one thing that keeps me in the game and playing by the rules. As horribly clever as I am, I could spin a thousand reasons on a moment’s notice why I am not responsible, or failed to behave a certain way.
These children are the one thing that really makes me take God seriously. For all of my sins, I can rationalize. But the thought of facing judgment day and being shown to have failed my kids when I knew better…
I am assigned to parent this small handful of God’s children. They aren’t mine. No ego involved in a need to defend my pride when they fail, or puffing myself up at their success.
They are beginning the “big turn” where they are pivoting out of “choice” and moving towards a collective mindset, similar to China. The long-term plan is being slowly executed.
To MARY and her query “What DID the Mohawks know ?”
Please allow me to answer that with a key question: “Mary, what DO you know about the Mohawks?” Notice you used the past tense (did) when referring to Mohawks. Even after the Native American genocide, they STILL EXIST.
Next, anthropologically and historically, there was a healthier balance between the nuclear family and the larger social community (tribe) in Pre- European Contact Native America.
The Industrial Revolution, in the main, created the “modern” nuclear family. There is a down side of the nuclear family that one may decide to acknowledge. From an AniYunWiYa ( Cherokee ) point of view, the mother and father ( the biological parents ) simply cannot posses the ” Life Wisdom” that the Elders do. So, there was a balance struck between (A) parental nurturing and (B) initiation into womanhood and manhood by elders and other community tribal people.
That is why, in to temporary America, left without MENTORS and ELDERS, gangs are formed, etc.
Please consider the Kahil Gibran quote about ” Your children are not your own “. No…. we do not own our children, but as parents we have a great responsibility to nurture and raise them…. with the help of wise elders.
So Ms. Harris-Perry has “triple-downed” on her statement on her Saturday program:
In the ad, Harris-Perry said that “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
“I can see that some people are genuinely upset about what I actually said,” she said.
She added, “I stand by that statement. Families have first and primary responsibility for their children. The private sphere of our homes and families deserves great deference in policy and in practice…but I believe our children are not our private property, they are not just extensions of ourselves. They are independent, individual beings.”
So then, children are not the private property of their familes. But isn’t that a bit of a strawman? Wouldn’t most say children belong WITH not TO their families? And rather than championing the individual integrity of children, notice she says they BELONG to ALL of us!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/13/melissa-harris-perry-i-stand-by-kids-belong-to-whole-communities-msnbc-promo/
AniYunWiYa 10:35
My comment was in no way meant to belittle the Mohawks, but my facetious way of saying that people are very capable of raising their own children, which I’m sure is news to the all knowing, all seeing Harris Perry. It was meant as a sarcastic criticism of her and her comment. What do any people know about raising their children?(sarcasm) The state knows best(sarcasm)
I am well aware the Mohawk people still exist and I in fact agree with their proverb, whoever one believes the Creator is. Being my children are grown and on their own, I know they were only loaned to me. However they were never the property of the state.
I regret that you misunderstood the point I was trying to make.
If babies did not attach to the mothers who bore them, adopted children would not have special problems. Women might routinely have babies and place them for adoption. They do not. Part of the reason for that might be that the biological process of carrying to term and giving birth forms a biological link between the two parties.