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Pro-Life Nursing Student Stands Up for Conscience Rights

The Demonic Nature of "Choice"

Pro-abortionists typically demonize the pro-life movement. Not surprising -- how could they live with themselves if they recognized that those working for life are kind, generous, and quick to help with nothing to gain for themselves? And why do these pro-lifers, often mothers, do it? Because abortion is demonic and takes the lives of little ones who are no different from their own children. That's what turned me from a non-confrontational young mom into a rescue activist and sidewalk counselor. As I held my little ones, I couldn't help thinking about their peers who would never be held or cuddled or loved. Someone needed to love them enough to try to save them from the butcher's knife. And what a joy it is to hold a little one whose mother chose life at the last minute! Those moments I will never forget.

But so many babies still die. And, as legal abortion continues into the second generation, its demonic nature becomes more and more obvious even to many secularists. The New York Times recently ran an article on mothers who selectively abort one of a set of twins for no reason other than they want a "singleton." Talk about "random selection!" It is chilling to think of a woman going through all kinds of fertility treatments to secure a baby only to kill one. Set her action alongside the other insanities: sex selection abortion and late term abortion/infanticide. Although it is clearly evil to kill a baby at any stage, those abortions that show clear deliberation and full knowledge and consent by the mothers are particularly horrific. Is it any wonder women who kill one of their twins conceal it and are even advised by their doctors to hide their dirty little secret? They say no one will understand and they are right. No one will "understand" because it confounds the nature of motherhood to choose one of your children and hire a hit man to kill him. That "doctors" consent to perform the murder reflects their moral bankruptcy.

It is the modern "Sophie's choice" without the coercion of a Nazi soldier forcing the mother to target one of her children for death. She does it herself willingly, perhaps with a sigh, but killing nonetheless. Fear of "not being able to cope" cannot legitimize the act. How many of us on our graduation or wedding day don't fear the unknowns in the future?

But these mothers probably don't realize they are also choosing the unknown horror of living each day with the knowledge and memory of killing their babies' siblings. They don't yet realize the pain of loss they will experience every time they look at their newborns -- or the curiosity of, "What would he or she be like?" As their children grow, how many losses will they experience at every milestone? A little ghost will haunt every birthday celebration, every holiday, every graduation, every swim meet and soccer game. How many of these moms will one day say to that solitary surviving twin in an unguarded moment of anger, "I should have killed you and not your twin!" Or will they just think it?

And what of the children? What does it do to the development of a baby to lie in the protection of his mother's womb and experience the invasion of the deadly needle that punctures the heart of his bosom companion? Can this really be an innocuous event? There are many stories of twins preserving and protecting the lives of their siblings. In England recently, doctors diagnosed a fraternal twin with a heart defect and a leaky amniotic sack at 20 weeks. The doctors predicted a sure death. The baby's twin positioned herself at the opening of the uterus creating a plug that allowed another ten weeks of growth and development. Both babies were born healthy and strong. In another case a set of twins were born and the weaker baby girl was in danger of death. Against hospital policy, a wise nurse put the little ones together in the same incubator and the stronger twin put her arm around her sister. The sick baby stablized and survived and the "rescuing hug" story went viral on the internet. The strong bond between twins is well known; what is not known is the long term impact of a twin experiencing the violent murder of a sibling in utero.

Another disconcerting fact from theTimes article is the connection it makes between immoral fertility treatments and abortion. As one mother says:

If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn't have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there is a natural order, then you don't want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner -- in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me -- and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control. 

Another mother openly acknowledged that she and her husband (and the doctor) were playing God:

It was very difficult for both of us. I still wonder, Did we choose the right one? — even though I wasn’t the one who chose. That idea, that one’s gone and one’s here, it’s almost like playing God. I mean, who are we to choose? Even as it was happening, I wondered what the future would have been if the doctor had put the needle into the other one.

Once a person usurps God's dominion over life and death ("We created this child." "Did we choose [to kill] the right one?"), he makes himself "like unto God" with the power to decide who lives and who dies. The baby, then, becomes a "consumer" object to be valued or trashed at will. It is diabolical.
 
God created us in His image and likeness and gave us the gift of participating in the creation of new human souls for heaven. Only man, in his arrogance, throws the gift back in God's face and says, "I'll create my own heaven through my own choice." Sadly, that is a prescription for hell on earth and many of these mothers will no doubt experience it unless they repent and seek forgiveness.
 
One of the greatest gifts we can receive on earth is to cooperate with God in the act of creation and to experience the dignity of being trusted with rearing souls for Him. One of the devil's greatest deceptions is to convince parents to spurn that role, kill their children, and rejoice in their "control." The ultimate question is whether we will choose life or death. To be pro-life or "pro-choice" is as different as the choice between heaven and hell. May each of us choose life so that, as Deuteronomy 30 promises, "[we] and [our] children may live" - eternally with God in heaven.

Pro-Abortion Propaganda

The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy

Government Tyranny Over Children

As a parent you probably think you have the right to make  important decisions for your minor children. Think again. In California, the 9th Circuit Court ruled that parents have no right to opt their children out of state mandated curricula no matter how objectionable. As the court ruled

“[p]arents…have no constitutional right…to prevent public schools from providing its students with whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise, when and as the school determines that it is appropriate to do so.”

If they want to teach your children that homosexual behavior is normal and you object -- tough. If they want to teach kids how to: put condoms on bananas, where to get the pill or an abortion, that they have a right to choose their own values and reject their parents -- well it's just too bad. The only control you have as a parent once you get into some school systems is to opt out altogether by private home schooling. Do you think that's why so many politicians opt their kids out of public schools?
 
Watch the trailer below and wake up, parents. Big Daddy government and his nannies in the school system and social services will be making decisions for your family. Fight now...while you still can!



For more see Whatever Schools Teach, Parents Have No Rights

Hey, It's Just Flash Mob Welfare, Dude!

When our kids were little at least two walked out of stores with small items. Once it was a spool of thread from a fabric store. There was certainly no malice involved, but I explained that taking what didn't belong to you was stealing and we needed to return it and apologize to the storekeeper. 

Apparently, the kids in this video never got the "do not steal" lesson and have no problem taking what doesn't belong to them while treating their reprehensible actions like a big joke. Wonder how much of a joke it would have been if the clerk objected and someone slashed him with a knife or pulled a gun. And what business will be hit next? Or will it be someone's home?

The Philadelphia video I posted a few days ago showed a group of kids (blacks again) attacking a man in a suit walking down the street only a few blocks from Independence Hall in broad daylight. They knocked him down, kicked him in the head and he ended up in the hospital. This is likely to get very ugly as it spreads around the country. You can't tell from the Philly video whether the man is white, but I wouldn't be surprised. The race warfare that has been stirred up by the Obamas and their buddies (like Jeremiah Wright) is bearing fruit. And sad to say, the greatest losers in this will be the morally upright black kids who are tarred with the same brush as the black hoodlums.

On the Feast of the Assumption - A Garland for Mary

Chicago's Rosary in the Sky  No doubt Mary was looking down with baby Jesus and smiling. "See the beautiful gift for me from the little ones?" How much Jesus must love children since He came as one. Say a Hail Mary of thanks for these young witnesses to life and love for the faith. What a gift for Mary on her feast day!

Kiss Girl Scouts Good-Bye!

If you are still eating Thin Mints and Samoas, it's time to switch. Girl Scouts may not be poisoning the cookies, but they are poisoning the minds and hearts of little girls, something far worse. If your parish has a Girl Scout troop show them this information and suggest they switch to Little Flowers.

The cookie crumbles: American girls abandoning Girl Scouts

It's a Horrible Life: Children in Hollywood

I don't know anything about the actors in the article below, but I am convinced that putting your children in show biz is a disaster.

Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim

Chronicles ran several articles about child stars a few issues ago and it confirms the negative impact of celebrity for most kids who don't travel the Hollywood maze without getting lost. I wrote a commentary on the Chronicles articles one of which mentioned the rocky relationship between Tatum O'Neal and her dad who never seems to have grown up. I happened to catch the two of them on Good Morning, America talking about a program they were doing together. Tatum's body language with her father was interesting. She sat about as far from him as possible on the couch. Once they held hands, but most of the interview she looked like a wound up spring with both her legs and arms crossed as though she were protecting herself. Clearly, there was no trust for dad who has publicly attacked her in the past in words that I won't print. But they have reconciled so they say, and it will be interesting to watch the end of the story. It is always a tragedy when family members feud and a few prayers for Hollywoods's youngest casualties would be an act of charity.

As for Hollywood pedophiles, it doesn't take much imagination to believe that.

Sunday thoughts on the economy

The economy is on most people's minds these days. But some things never change. Here are some famous voices from ancient history. What do you think they would say about the U.S. economy?

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. [Does this make you think of anyone in particular?]

Cicero - 106 - 43 B.C.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. [Perhaps this explains why the administration continues to spend like a drunken sailor. Heck...it's too late anyway. Why stop now?]

Seneca - 4 B.C. to 65 A.D.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! [We are all likely to experience this in the days ahead! So put your trust in God instead of in your pocketbook.]


Horace 65-8 B.C.

And here's one modern voice of common sense who sums it up pretty well.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. [Amen!]

Ronald Reagan 1911-2004

Take away their cell phones!

Philadelphia mayor talks tough to black teenagers after ‘flash mobs’