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Her crisis pregnancy just turned 15

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Liked this, a lot.

The panic is temporary. The fear is temporary. The crisis is temporary. The days when you wake up thinking “how did I make such a huge mistake” are so few in retrospect.

You have nine months for all that, but then it gets good. Still difficult, don’t get me wrong, but so so good…

By now it should be obvious to all that I am no fan of abortion. But perhaps the biggest reason why is because it sidelines the strength women have and capitalizes on panic and fear. Whoever, on any issue at all, said that fear is a good reason to do something? And most abortions are done for that reason: Fear of a future a woman can’t see or yet understand, fear of a lack of finances, fear of what people will think, etc. etc. etc. The fear is temporary, the strength is permanent. This is why helping women find strength to carry on in face of a crisis is an act of compassion.

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“The God I believe in isn’t short of cash, mister”

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Sassy writing and a Princess Bride reference within the first ten lines. I like it.

Furthermore, anytime someone living within the shadow of the CN Tower expresses a pro-life point of view, an angel gets his wings–so I feel it’s important to highlight these miraculous moments.

I don’t believe in coincidences. If you or someone known to you is on the horns of a dilemma with an unexpected pregnancy and planning to terminate it, have the child and I’ll find a way to raise it for you.
This isn’t a first-come, one-off proposition. I’ll do it for as many as ask. If you’re wondering how such an undertaking could be accomplished, as the Irish philosopher Paul Hewson put it, “The God I believe in isn’t short of cash, mister.”
I’m not doing it because I think your kid is the Messiah. In fact, if the child grows up with much exposure to me, chances are he’ll be a world-class jerk. Nevertheless, he has a right to live.
Now, this is a sincere offer, but let’s please not make it the focal point of this prose. What I’m saying is that if those of us who are pro-life mean what we say, we must be part of the solution beyond stating what the law should be or what other people should do.
I believe Mr. Caldwell is perfectly serious with his offer, btw. Therefore, I would like to broadcast it further here. If you need help, please get in touch. That said, I am filled with sadness knowing how many expressions of total and complete generosity are met with no–because people believe they cannot accept help, or that it isn’t real, or they just can’t. I often wonder if someone out there needs to model vulnerability–a simple expression that no one has it all together all the time. We are all fond of the idea, however false it is, that we are self-sufficient and we don’t ever need help. (Is this why Trump wins support?) Then, come a crisis, we actually prefer to go it alone, thinking we are very strong for doing so.
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The tone deafness of strident pro-choice activists

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Faye already commented on the Scandal episode. This article does so again, from the perspective of a woman who had an abortion. I thought it was pretty worthwhile to read her perspective, since only but rarely does real-life experience match up with the Hollywood version. (And yes, that’s true whether the story line is pro-life or pro-choice.)

With this episode of Scandal, my heart broke not only because of the abortion experienced by a character I’ve come to like but also because of the soundtrack. To play a beautiful Christmas hymn about easily the most famously celebrated birth in history during a scene that terminates a pregnancy is distasteful. “Silent Night, holy night / All is calm, all is bright / Round yon virgin Mother and Child / Holy infant so tender and mild / Sleep in heavenly peace.” I’m sure the playing of this song during this scene was intentional, politically driven, and meant to stir things up. But I wonder if the writers and producers of this show realize how incredibly damaging images such as these can be to post-abortive women, causing reactions such as flashbacks, nightmares, or increased anxiety.

 

A note from the past

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The source needs to remain anonymous, but someone just emailed me this:

Just read a letter from a doctor to the Therapeutic Abortion Committee of a hospital from 1979 where the family doctor requested approval for a therapeutic abortion. The reason it was “recommended” was that the father was a married man who had been living apart from his wife but who had since gone back to her. Then, I read the description of the procedure which occurred at 17 weeks gestation. Horrific. But it demonstrated that abortions really were granted for just about any reason at all.”

This lends credence to the decidedly anti-feminist proposition that abortion serves to conceal a man’s indiscretions. The woman lives with the consequences regardless.

 

Tune in to Veronique’s YouTube channel

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Veronique Bergeron is one of my favourite people in all the land. She has a large family. She used to blog with us at PWPL. People were sad when she stopped. Good news: Now she has her own blog about her large family. She has a YouTube channel; it’s new! She also has a sense of humour, which isn’t new. Miraculously, even with nine children, she has kept that around. I look up to Ms. Bergeron and her whole clan. There’s no white picket fence around her property, she keeps it real. Tune in.

This one is interesting because I swear to you: Having given speeches to audiences in the hundreds, having testified before hostile committees, having talked to biased journalists about being pro-life, one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done was get both my nieces out the door for a walk on a fine summer day when I was the only adult. There were shoes on the wrong feet, there were water bottles and changes of clothes stuffed into the back of the stroller, there was general mayhem, there was a stressed out Auntie. It is no great surprise to me that this is one of Veronique’s first videos, as a result.

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Selective causes

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Very interesting to me how otherwise compassionate people, like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, can advocate for child rights in some circumstances, but not in others. Certainly, once you establish that human beings are human beings regardless of where they are located or their size, then this becomes a hollow statement indeed.

Each child deserves to be raised in a world free of discrimination, violence, and exploitation, and each one deserves to grow up with proper nutrition and health care, a good education, and safe communities.

 

Hmmm. A world free of violence and discrimination–for those that make it.

Abortion as birth control–that’s how Planned Parenthood exec director uses it

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It remains hotly contested to say that abortion is backup birth control. I think it is obvious that abortion is used that way. With few exceptions, the personal stories of abortion women have shared with me were essentially abortion as a backup to failed birth control stories.

And so it is, from Cecile Richards herself:

It was a decision my husband and I made. It was a personal decision. And we have three children that we adore and that are the center of my life. And we decided that was as big as our family needed to be. That was really the story. It wasn’t anything more dramatic than that.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

One more comment: Pregnancy and child bearing–they sound like a choice you plan out until they aren’t. The women who know this most profoundly are the women experiencing infertility, for whatever reason. They’ve been told they can have a child at the time of their choosing. When that doesn’t pan out, they hit the non-choiceness of it all hard.

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Cecile Richards: “We have three children… That was as big as our family needed to be.

 

Modern heroes

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Following up on my last post, I just read this one, written by Canada’s own Jonathan Van Maren, a stalwart pro-life activist. Five Things You Need to Know from the Leaked Planned Parenthood Footage is an important read. He concludes with this:

David Daleidan is today’s Harriet Beecher Stowe and these videos are our modern Uncle Tom’s Cabin

(Being today’s Harriet Beecher Stowe means being maligned publicly, until the tide shifts and then you are not.)

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