Thanking abortionists for their “good works” and “compassion”
Religious and secular providers alike often talk about their work as a calling, echoing the language that ministers’ use to describe their work in service to the holy. Both ministers and abortion-care providers are compelled to do the good works of compassion, justice, and mercy.
Saturday March 10th was Abortion Provider Appreciation Day. And all of us who have been blessed by the good works of abortion-care providers are encouraged to take a few moments to express their gratitude and appreciation….
In those times when you face an unplanned pregnancy, you will have somewhere to turn, a place that will allow you to choose what is best out of a hard situation, a place with people that will help you navigate the confusion, fear, and vulnerability. Life is hard. Things get messy….
To be a person of deep faith has never been easy. Our faiths call us to challenge the status-quo of injustice, no matter how unpopular our stances may be. Our faiths call us to take risks for compassion, justice, and mercy. This week, in your church, synagogue, temple, or mosque, consider how you can answer this call.
How will you let them know that in a harsh world devastated by coercion and violence, you understand that radical acts of compassion and justice, like providing abortion-care, are exactly what we need more of?
~ RH Reality Check, cross-posting at Daily Kos, March 12
[Photo via Daily Kos]
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.
Abortion providers save women’s lives.
In what universe?
Abortion isn’t just messy- it’s violent. Abortion of little fetuses means a harsh execution of human beings who are always innocent.
Abortion saves no female lives, but rather ends the lives of little girl (and boy) fetuses. Where is the compassion for them? Why are their lives dismissed as worthy of dismemberment?
Compassion means to suffer with someone, to feel with them. There is no compassion in abortion- just death, emptiness. If someone stood up at my church or synagogue and suggested thanking abortion providers, I’d ask them why we can’t find better ways to solve problems than killing innocent fetuses. If we wish to show true compassion, we have a duty to care about everyone involved, and not just the pregnant mother who may be in a difficult situation.
This confirms the Messiah-complex that abortion doctors must have to kill the unborn. In their mind, women with an unexpected pregnancy are condemned, suffering miserably, and in need of someone to save them.
As Abby Johnson has written, when a young woman at a clinic said she knew having an abortion was a sin, the abortion doctor said, “No. It is not your sin. It is mine. I will take on your sin.”
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/07/26/abby-johnson-abortion-doc-told-patient-i-will-take-your-sin/
“Our faiths call us to challenge the status-quo of injustice, no matter how unpopular our stances may be.” RHRealityCheck, you are the status-quo and the MAN now. Well, at least your friends. I don’t get those people, so very angry over the idea that someone thinks the unborn child deserves life. Are they really always flying around in a rage?
Christina at Real Choice also posted about “Celebrate Abortion Providers” Day and included some of the pro-choice greeting cards created for this occasion. Then, she proposed we remind pro-choicers of certain abortion providers, who caused medical negligence and malpractice, as they are also so-called heroes of the abortion rights movement.
http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2012/03/prepare-to-celebrate-abortionists.html
I wrote in response to her post, that women in the Silent No More movement or any woman who’s been hurt by abortion can advantage of this time to remind reproductive health care providers that abortion hurts women physically and mentally, by taking a moment and writing a note inside of one of these so-called Thank You cards, sharing their story and how abortion hurt them, encouraging the abortion provider to find another medical profession, hoping to change the perceptions (of heroism) and hearts of some of these providers.
I was devastated by the coercion and violence of my abortion.
And this is what I did on Abortion Appreciation Day 3 years ago(makes me ill just typing that)
http://outcrywisconsin.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-thank-you.html
For the last 4 years that I have been here I have asked the same questions with no answers given.
How does abortion help women?
How does abortion heal women?
How does abortion save women?
How does abortion empower women?
::crickets::
“Are they really always flying around in a rage?”
The Kos Kids?
No, sometimes their chronic apoplexy fails to induce levitation and so they resort to walking around in one.
Bear in mind, the Kos Kids deem themselves the class of authentic progressives who Obama has betrayed (on their view) in many key areas.
Think of ’em as a post-grad school for Democratic Underground alums.
Kos is a favorite click-fest layover for those conservatives still stuck on the childish pastime of watching liberal heads explode. I’ll grant they put on a much better show than HuffPo. “Oooooh!” “Aaaaah!” “Oh, pretty!“
“radical acts of compassion and justice”???? Good grief, the delusion these people persist in is just amazing. How truly sick and evil, to call killing a helpless child an act of compassion and justice. They have traded light for darkness and now they glorify their darkness.
Gotta love how the sign looks like the letters were slashed and written in blood. How appropriate.
I’m speechless.
Yet, those women (and yes they are mostly women) who run the crisis pregnancy centers are demonized and accused of all sorts of ridiculous things.
I say we have CPC APPRECIATION DAY!
Just went to the link and filled out a “thank you” card for my abortion provider. Since he never introduced himself I couldn’t write his name….
I wrote how devastating it was to abort and how I will regret it until the day I die.
I will make a stand. Even if I am standing alone.
It’s called “doubling down.” When something seems preposterous to unspoiled human intuition, you can do a couple things. You can make some rational case for it — an apologia. Or you can just fete it gratuitously, celebrate it, conjure positive emotions among those you wish to interest in your cause. The latter is the newspeak way of manipulation, subverting the former alternative.
Of course, both may be done. Good cop/bad cop kind of thing — using two contradictory means to one end. Where statistical aggregates are important (viz., a majority), how you get there isn’t important. Truth isn’t the issue at all. The personal is the political, and it’s all about power.
Certainly ain’t about love.
To many folk, this is not about rights and wrongs, it’s about rights and laws. And rights are whatever you can assert they are with enough money and votes.
I don’t get it. Because abortion providers defend women against the parasite in her womb that’s trying to kill her? Because legalized abortion prevents all malpractice or injury of women in the abortion procedure? What? Read Lime 5 by Mark Crutcher. Women are still being butchered in abortion clinics by abortion doctors.
Dear God! How BLIND can these women be???
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” Isaiah 5:20
I was thinking the exact same thing about the banner, Jen.
You will not stand alone, Carla. We will stand WITH you (love you!)
I just can’t even FATHOM it:
“Thank You Dr. Whoever-You-Are,
Thank you for killing my innocent child, thus freeing me from the BURDEN of motherhood! Thank you for not even caring what my name is. Thank you for possibly risking my health, my fertility, my very LIFE. Thank you for only seeing me as a UTERUS, not a person, and looking at me(and my pre-born child) with dollar signs in your eyes! I will be forever grateful for the emotional (and possibly mental) scars, and for the wound on my soul. You are my hero!” Sincerely, Patient #—–
Carla – standing there in prayer with you. Thank you for your firm witness for Life.
“Life is hard” especially when you’re the target of one of those “radical acts of compassion and justice”.
I strongly question the faith of anyone who brags about their “deep faith.” Put your names on the article if you are so faithful. Tell us about the other “good” fruit you bear in this world.
This crazy kind of behavior was predicted when abortion was legalized.
Like other prolifers state, “YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!”
Gotta love how the sign looks like the letters were slashed and written in blood.
Agreed. Demonic-like.
Yes, thank you abortionists for taking advantage of emotional and confused women to make a lot of money for yourselves, so you can buy that BMW you’ve had your eye on. I’ve always cared so much about you getting an expensive vehicle for yourself. The term “blood money” is only for people who see blood on their hands at the end of the day, but you only see money, so I guess you’re free from guilt! Congrats! Thank you for killing the souls of millions of women and the lives of millions of babies. Too bad there IS a God, and you WILL be held accountable by someone much more intimidating than that person standing outside your clinic with a sign in their hands, and a small hope in their heart. Take the warning before it’s too late guys, it only gets worse from here.
Carla–so many of us standing with you and for Aubrey.
God is working! :)
Thank you!
I read that there are now 10,000 that have signed on to Silent No More Awareness. Thousands and thousands of stories shared of how abortion has hurt us.
They can continue to spout the joy and wonder and freedom of abortion. We know better.
Hope they keep ignoring the distant thunder. :)
Oh wow it appears I have to change my moniker; I hadn’t known there was another Sarah. I hope that’s not against the posting rules…
I once read a book by an abortionist that actually was kinda moving. I could still hate with every fiber of my being what it was he was doing, but I could almost see where he was coming from. I could tell he actually believed what he was saying and that he genuinely thought he was doing good. And honestly that scared me more than any “all abortionists are greedy pigs out to destroy women” could ever do.
Carla,
Has anyone told you you rock today? :)
“Things get messy”
Ya, destroying babies is bloody. Duh.
I say we have CPC APPRECIATION DAY!
Great idea, phillymiss. Maybe around Mother’s Day or Labor Day. :) There are lots of babies born in the Fall and the name is appropriate.
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Carla, God bless you for all you do.
Dear Doctor “I laugh at pro-lifers,”
Although you are a ghoul and I despise you, I also hold in contempt the doctor who referred me to you. She had a nice office, in a nice place. Why she referred me to a building that even a shoddy, unliscensed vet wouldn’t work out of, I will never know. Why she didn’t offer me prenatal care, I’ll never know. I would like to live to see you come to a bad end, but vengeance is the Lord’s, not mine. I’m keeping an eye on you, Doctor-who-must-have-graduated-at-the-bottom-of-his-class. You’ve retired from baby killing, I see. You’re getting older, I see. Chances are very good that I will outlive you. When I do, I’m willing to make a special trip to your cemetery. The only question I have to ask you is: shall I do a hula, a jig, or the watusi?
@ninek – please pray for his soul, and every person who supports abortion. They have time to reflect, regret, and repent. There is time for conversion.
If God can change Saul to Paul, there is hope for everyone.
oh – and the obvious – since Roe there were 50+ million abortions in the US, and statistically 50% of them were girls… How does the abortion of 25+ million girls help save their lives? They are aborted before they even lived a full life…
We are missing many – more than truly be counted, and their smiles and contributions to family, and society, will never be realized. so sad…
We are missing many – more than truly be counted, and their smiles and contributions to family, and society, will never be realized. so sad
We are missing those who would be in our prison and mental health systems. Seriously, in your happy babyland, do you actually think that all those fetuses who were aborted would have ended up as happy, contributing, functional members of society? Seriously?
You folks must so hate those faith communities that support choice. Be honest, now.
CC,
Doing a lot of projecting tonight?
I’m headed to church soon, I will light a candle for you to get over your depression. God bless.
cc – that is true – but all humans deserve life – the imperfect, the poor, the disabled – all of them.
And no – we don’t hate those faith communities – we hope that all people who support choice will support what they themselves have been given – life.
We welcome all into the family – our human family. There is always time to get back on the road and try to help others – all others – not just some. That is the core of it: love. And if anyone doesn’t rise to that occasion, we pray for them too.
We are helping people you would call ‘non-functional members of our society.’ we wish them well — we don’t wish them dead.
@cc
And do you really think that just because some of them would end up in mental insitutions and jails and the like that we should therefore get rid of all of them? It’s life. Some people will grow up good and some people won’t. That’s just how the world works. Does that mean we should prematurely punish ALL of them for crimes they haven’t committed and some–a lot–probably most–of them will NEVER commit? NO.
I don’t claim to live in happy baby land. But I’d rather live in a world where people try to care than in a world where people say “some of them will be criminals so why bother?”
Your cynicism saddens me.
I know CC, you are so right. If YOU had been aborted we couldn’t see your soul sickness on display every single day?
how do you know the babies that were aborted wouldn’t have been the next Steve Jobs or the next brave Navy Seal or the next bio-medical researcher? You just assume with your sick hatred for mankind that babies that are aborted would have all been thieves and rapists.
Pamela, your post made me think “Dear abortion doctor, thank you for saving me from the burden of motherhood. Thank you for delivering me from a lifetime of ‘I love you Mom’ and a lifetime of hugs and kisses. Thank you for taking away the horrible burden of bedtime stories and snuggles. Thank you for relieving me of the horror of watching a first smile, a first crawl, a first step, a first word. Thank you for not making me reach into that secret reserve of strength within myself to make it through nights with a sick child calling out ‘Mommy!’. Thank you for not making me have to pour my life into another human being. I will never be able to thank you over and over for taking away the possibility of helping my child get ready for prom or study for a test. And most of all I thank you for eradicating any future grandchildren from my aborted child and all the giggles and kisses that come with it. You have truly saved my life. Now I can be alone and think only of myself and find fulfillment only in myself. How blessed I am because you cared so much.”
And they’re concerned about coercion huh? So I guess they fight against women being coerced into abortions, right?
CC: “You folks must so hate those faith communities that support choice. Be honest, now.”
?!
What do you mean by “hate?” How would such hate instance itself?
CC same old lame argument. (crickets).
I would suggest not wasting your time going in circles prolifers, since this has been covered at least hundreds if not thousands of times. But if you feel you must respond again, it’s a free country (at least the last time I checked it is).
Also – the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized – physically and mentally – are supposed to help us to be compassionate and soft. We are to help – we are to be fully human – not selfish, but truly helpful. The imperfect help perfect us – to help make us more loving and kind.
Again – when people do not rise to the occasion, we still wish them well.
We are supposed to become the best version of ourselves – not selfish , but loving. That is the aim – to make the heart grow.
“We are missing those who would be in our prison and mental health systems. Seriously, in your happy babyland, do you actually think that all those fetuses who were aborted would have ended up as happy, contributing, functional members of society? Seriously?”
Criminals and mentally ill people are human beings too.
Man. I don’t agree with the pie in the sky stuff I see from pro-lifers sometimes. Not all parents love and want their children, not all of them see them as preshus bundles of joy. In no way was I remotely a blessing to my mother. But I really, really can’t stand the elitist, classist crap that comes out of some pro-choice people’s mouths (keyboards?). I dislike it way, way more than the Pollyanna attitude of some pro-lifers! Poor people *should* have abortions, because their kids might be dirty criminals? Kids who are born into abusive families and kids with behavioral problems or mental issues don’t deserve a chance at life and happiness? They are condemned before they are even born? How is this remotely pro-choice or justice?
All in all, the “what could have been” argument is dumb. Our worth isn’t determined by what we might do. Most likely, most of those aborted fetuses would have grown up to be average people living average lives, doing some bad things and some good things. And that’s fine. People’s right to live shouldn’t be judged before they are born, whether they will end up being “good” or “bad”.
I love this backhanded insult to women:
We are missing those who would be in our prison and mental health systems.
What cc is saying, folks, is that women who have sex without the intention of creating children…are women who produce criminals and mentally ill children. As a woman, I’m offended by her insinuation that when I was younger, I was producing half-criminal eggs. My boyfriends would likely also find it insulting to be told that just because we were young and not intending children, that their sperm was also somehow criminal. Let’s follow this line just a bit further: because cc has in fact validated the notion that people who have sex to procreate do produce superior children. Go you!!
Joy, you are very generous, spiritually, to say that I should pray for his soul. Intellectually, I know that I should. But, I do pray occaisionally for myself, that I can learn to forgive, not once, not twice, but 7 times 70. God will know when my heart has so matured.
Dear God, can I dance on his grave for just a few minutes before I forgive him? LOL!
We are missing those who would be in our prison and mental health systems. Seriously, in your happy babyland, do you actually think that all those fetuses who were aborted would have ended up as happy, contributing, functional members of society? Seriously?
Cubic Centimetre, in case you were unaware, Planned Parenthood and its supporters have recently been trying really, really hard to deny the notion that it’s actually a eugenics organization. While I appreciate your honesty, I must say that you’re not exactly doing them any favours…
By the way, how did it go with the embryology textbook?
@ninek: I know you’re angry at them and justifiably so, but I wouldn’t even joke about dancing on someone’s grave. I don’t think I could rejoice at anyone’s death; if the person was a terrible person they need prayers even more.
My anatomy and physiology textbook tells me that a new human begins developing when the sperm and the egg join. Any other scientific book I’ve seen that describes this process puts it about the same way. And once you establish it’s human, no matter who wants it/doesn’t want it now or in the future, it has all the dignity that should be bestowed on a human.
Humans are to be shown respect, even after they cease living. Any sort of desecration of a grave is deeply disrespectful, and dead soldiers who can’t be identified are often put in unmarked graves because at least it’s SOMETHING. People tend not to speak ill of people who have just died, even if they personally despised them. So much respect is given to the dead even though they have ceased living.
What makes me sad about the pro-choice argument…how come so many people seem to think that this respect of humanity, which continues even after death (even after the human has ceased “being” in this life), can be taken away from humans at their earliest stages, just because they’re inconvenient/the wrong sex/going to have birth defects/going to make life harder for the other people in their lives simply by existing/etc.?
Kids do make life more difficult. I grew up around enough of them to know. I saw the sacrifices my parents made for me and my siblings, that our friends made for their kids. I made sacrifices myself. I know my parents wouldn’t trade any of that for the world, and I wouldn’t either. Because life IS difficulty, and that’s part of what makes it interesting.
‘Abortion providers save women’s lives.’
Only if the women’s lives don’t count.
Ninek,
I heart your brutal honesty. I do. I have felt the same way. And then felt guilty for it.
Post abortive women shall be allowed the freedom to express whatever feeling they are feeling and be supported as they continue grieving.
I know you know what I mean.
MPQ,
Thank you! I have been meaning to tell you the same thing! :)
How shall we know what millions of aborted babies were to grow and do and be when we never gave them that chance? Odds are they would have done what so many of us are doing.
Jack,
They would have lived. And yes. Life is precious. All life. Every life.
CC,
I love you.
O_O;;;
I apologize…not for my previous comment in its entirety, as it reflects my beliefs as best as I could get it to, but I am sorry if I was disrespectful to ninek or anyone with it. I really did not intend it that way…I’m so sorry.
And note to self–crying on your touchpad makes it mess up terribly.
Carla:
Your comments cut to the heart…our prayers are with you and the Silent No More campaign.
Jen says:
Gotta love how the sign looks like the letters were slashed and written in blood. How appropriate.
Appropriate indeed! Blood red juxtaposed against the color of death.
Don’t cry Sarah F. All is well.
Women and men who have been hurt by abortion need all of you!!!
Thank you Jerry.
Thanks Carla, but I think I’ll keep crying till I’m done (is literally crying right now…if my little sis comes into our room this instant it’ll be awkward). I’m one of those emotional people who has trouble stopping crying once she’s started anyway. Maybe I can offer up my tears for the babies, and for you and ninek and anyone else hurting…I’ll just avoid crying on my touchpad again cause it makes replying difficult :)
God bless you all. :’)
Jack, I feel so heartbroken for the rejection you’ve faced and the hurt you carry. And the fact that you’re such an amazing father despite your own upbringing just makes me want to high-five you.
I do have a pollyanna attitude when it comes to babies. Because what is a baby but a fresh start? And because I’ve seen women who were anti-motherhood and selfish and immature suddenly transform into these amazing women who would sacrifice life and limb for their children! I’ve seen it. So I tend to believe that most people will fall into that category.
But I do so appreciate what you wrote. Because as you said, even if the mother turns out to be the “mommy dearest” type, the child does not deserve to die. Eve if a child grows up to be a loser and dredge to society and a criminal or whatever the case may be… he doesn’t deserve to have his fate decided when he is an innocent child. We don’t know how any person will turn out. There is a beauty in that. It is hope.
Considering that abortion is a complete rejection of Christianity, which is all about taking care of the poor, the weak, and the vulnerable (rather than killing them), I acknowledge that there are “people of faith” who are pro-abortion – but they are somewhat like the people of faith from ancient times who worshipped Moloch and friends.
Thank you Mr. Abortionist (being called a doctor is an insult to my friends and family members who are physicians that uphold the Hippocratic oath) for letting me live over 40 years of pain and regret; for your cold-hearted comments by explaining to me how you were killing my baby. I could go on, but in the final analysis, you did not succeed. Through God, I have found mercy, healing and hope. I pray for you, as well as all other abortionists daily that one day you will embrace life, as other physicians have done. It’s never too late for anyone.
I will be Silent No More.
We need you Sarah! I, too, offer up my tears (Psalm 56:9) for an end to abortion. And thank you, Carla, for all that you do.
I couldn’t fathom the pain of it…
…I’ve been staunchly against abortion ever since I knew what abortion was (and I was quite small at the time.) And since I also believe in chastity I’ve never been in a situation where abortion would even be an “option” for me…I’ve experienced loss before, including losing a baby sister to miscarriage when I was really young which still haunts me. ..But…abortion, I can’t fathom. It breaks my heart and my brain at the same time trying to wrap my head around it.
The best I can do is cry. And pray. I can’t even say “I know how you feel”, because I don’t. I couldn’t imagine…so I am praying.
Thank you Sydney, it’s fine. I just get annoyed with the happy happy joy joy attitude. It sometimes seems to me like it almost legitimize the pro-choice “better aborted then abused” type of attitude. Someone like CC says “abortion is needed because of all these women who don’t want their babies and won’t love them!” We say “Those mothers will definitely love their children and everything will be great!”. Which isn’t true in some cases, and it plays into the idea that a child must be loved to stay alive, and that’s not right. What I think is better is “Some children won’t be loved, that’s correct. But we can help mothers who are struggling and having problems or possibly mental health issues, and the child’s life shouldn’t depend on who loves them.” That type of thinking seems to me like it encompasses the care and compassion for the mother but not denying that the child always has a right to life no matter how little he or she is loved.
Carol, I am so sorry for what you went through. Stories like yours and Carla’s are the ones that really break my heart and remind me what we all are fighting for.
And ninek, I forgot to mention you. I am sorry that it still hurts you so much and I certainly think you are entitled to express your pain and anger. :(
Aw, you are all so sweet. I don’t mean to sound unChristian but yes, I still get angry. I read what the abortionist I went to said in interviews. It was sickening to read his words, how cavalier he was about the lives he took, how disrespectful. I think that some abortionists may be silently reading our comment threads. I want them to know they didn’t empower us. They preyed on our fear and inexperience. They took our money and we became other people. We can mark the milestone of our life, me before I did that, me after I did that. Maybe day after day they can distance themselves, but for us it will always be deeply personal. For us there will always be one less place at the dinner table.
Man, look at that banner, black with red sharp letters. Its like the devil made it..
Probably because he did.
Jack,
Agreed. It is one thing to say to a young mother, “Choose life!!” and walk away.
It is quite another to embrace her, offer her support and ask, “What do you need? How can I help?”
SarahF,
I have carried it for 21 years now. I tell my story so others will know and at least try to understand that women need love before they abort. Women need love after they abort. We have much to learn from each other. :)
My love and hugs to you Carol and ninek.
We walk this journey together.
Compassion, justice, and abortion.
Two of these things are not like the other. One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Carla, I read this and I just had to respond. I might get more into the other comments sometime later, but this will have to suffice for the moment.
“For the last 4 years that I have been here I have asked the same questions with no answers given.
How does abortion help women?
How does abortion heal women?
How does abortion save women?
How does abortion empower women?”
Well, I think four years is long enough:
It does not … it does not … it does not … aaaaaand, it does not.
Now, I realize that you were waiting for the pro-aborts to attempt to defend those assertions, but we all know how that ends, so I figured there’s no point waiting. As such, your questions have now been clearly answered as witnessed by all here.
I hope that, maybe even in just a small way, being able to check this off of your for-goodness’-sake-why-did-that-take-so-long list brings you some measure of peace.
Know that you and all mothers (and fathers) who carry this burden are in the prayers of many, many people, mine included.
Carla:
I’ve always understood that in my head I think, but this is the first time I’ve actually spoken directly to women who’ve been through it. (My mom was on birth control before she and Dad converted, but that’s the closest I can think.) I’ve read books-lots of books–and spoken to pro-life friends and argued with pro-choice friends and acquaintances and read and listened to people telling their tales, I even remember standing in the rain on a roadside holding signs with my parents when I was little and praying in front of a clinic in my teens, but then it was just the cars going by. This is a new experience for me, and I have a lot to learn. I hope maybe I can give as well, I want to help and I want to learn, but my ignorance might get in the way sometimes. :(
Maestro,
:) Why thank you. I guess I kind of enjoy it when those that are proabortion sputter through it. But mostly they ignore it.
Abortion will never and can never help, heal, save or empower. The intent is to end the life of an innocent human being.
Hi SarahF,
There is much, much grace for you. THANK YOU for your stand and your passion!!
Here is my story
http://outcrywisconsin.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-story-at-faith-community-church.html
Carla, thanks for posting your story of you and Aubrey, and Jamie and Lee as well. Your strength and courage are astounding. Francis of Assisi is credited for humbly asking, “Lord, make me a channel of your peace / Where there is hatred let me sow love,” which is what I see in your testimony.
“O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.”
Thank you for bringing up that prayer, Eric, and Carla, thank you for your story too. I pray it reaches many people and touches their hearts.
You folks must so hate those faith communities that support choice. Be honest, now.
Nope, I don’t hate them, but it’s fair to say that the more liberal, pro-abortion churches, such as the Episcopalians, Methodists, etc. are losing membership while the more conservative ones, such as the Church of the Latter Day Saints, are actually making small gains. I don’t know much about the state of the Judaism, except that Orthodox Jews who tend to be conservative and prolife, have a high birth rate. Among other Jewish groups the birthrate is quite low and there is a high rate of intermarriage. Orthodox Jews almost never intermarry.
Man. I don’t agree with the pie in the sky stuff I see from pro-lifers sometimes.
I hear you, Jack. I am very pro-adoption, of course, but I wish people would realize that parenting an adopted child can be difficult. Some behaviors are genetic. My son’s taken me through alot. But he’s also taught me the true meaning of unconditional love and slowly, but surely, he’s working things out. My life surely would have been easier if we hadn’t adopted Isaiah, but he has made me a better, stronger person, and for that I am thankful (and for my beautiful grandson, Isaiah jr., who is learning to walk)!