We had a great Venue for our St. Patrick's Day 40 Days for Life, because Planned Parenthood moved last year to the street behind an Irish Pub! A lot of people saw us today on their way in.
Not all of our viewers were positive. One young lady blocked our prettiest baby picture with her car, then came and yelled at us some, 'What about the babies in Africa? Why don't you help them?' We were able to tell her that we do help them, and i offered that i spent 2 years without pay helping 3rd world poor. But where there is hostility, there is often great hurt...we have to keep that in mind. Who knew her background?
Prolife people have a poor image, and it's the media's fault. 40 Days for Life have been around since 2007, get almost no coverage, and we get a LOT of flak from pro-aborts. We give none back, only offer words of love and support.
So we told her we loved her.
But she was no trouble compared to the lady last week; who screamed at us, effed and blinded us up and down. However, I ended up having a drink with her in the Irish pub! We agreed that God accepts us all just the way we are...she needs prayer, because she is hurting deeply.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Unresolved Grief following Abortion
Does it make anybody mad that the abortion lobby totally ignore the issue of unresolved grief following abortion? I saw Dr. Christensen's video who, while the nurse was making sure that they got all the baby's face out, remarked that the girl whose baby he had just hacked to pieces can now 'get on with her life.'
This makes me mad. Society had just given this girl permission to do this to her 20-week unborn child. She thought it was OK, evidently. If she had seen the baby's face with his tortured expression clearly evident, his eye torn out of the socket, she would have hated how she had been deceived.
I hope she never finds out. Even so, the reality of that child will hit her someday, unless she tries to stave it off by running from it, and incurring a case of Unresolved Grief in the process, with it's depression, addiction and rage.
It's just one of the abortion lobby's dirty secrets that women suffer from grief after an abortion. I mean, how can you grieve for a blob of tissue? A produce of conception?
The Abortion Lobby survives on deceit. Women deserve better.
As for Dr. Christensen, I am convinced that he hasn't done this young woman any favor at all.
Before you watch, this is graphic and distressing video.
resources for unresolved grief issues
projectrachel.org
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Hard Cases make Bad Law
It wasn't meant to be this way, it never was. England wasn't meant to have abortion on demand.
When Dr. Aleck Bourne performed an abortion on a 14-year old rape victim in 1938, he did so because he felt she would suffer great mental anguish if the pregnancy continued. That led doctors to perform more and more abortions and finally to the Abortion Act of 1967 which stated that if two doctors agree that continuing a pregnancy would be injurious of a woman's health, the pregnancy may be terminated.
And many decades after, I see a comment on a website that described how a 16-year old girl had been taken for an abortion, and was giggly afterwards from the sedation when her friend and her friend's mother took her to lunch. The writer was defending her view that abortion was no big deal.
Dr. Bourne did not anticipate that abortion would ever become an OK thing to do. Much later he saw that abortion on these grounds became abortion on demand. He became a founder of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
But Hard Cases make Bad Law.
When Dr. Aleck Bourne performed an abortion on a 14-year old rape victim in 1938, he did so because he felt she would suffer great mental anguish if the pregnancy continued. That led doctors to perform more and more abortions and finally to the Abortion Act of 1967 which stated that if two doctors agree that continuing a pregnancy would be injurious of a woman's health, the pregnancy may be terminated.
And many decades after, I see a comment on a website that described how a 16-year old girl had been taken for an abortion, and was giggly afterwards from the sedation when her friend and her friend's mother took her to lunch. The writer was defending her view that abortion was no big deal.
Dr. Bourne did not anticipate that abortion would ever become an OK thing to do. Much later he saw that abortion on these grounds became abortion on demand. He became a founder of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
But Hard Cases make Bad Law.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Ban late-term abortions.
If a preemie can experience pain, an unborn child can as well.
An unborn child CAN feel pain. Fetology experts are sure; the only differ as to from what stage. Some say as early as 8 weeks; all agree that pain is experienced intensely at 20. A preemie of 20 weeks can cry. If a preemie can feel pain, an unborn child of the same gestation can too.So what are we waiting for? Why isn't late-term abortion banned yesterday?
If a preemie can feel pain a fetus can also
Excerpted from:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/11/south-carolina-house-passes-pro-life-bill-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/
The South Carolina state House has approved a pro-life bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, because research shows unborn children can feel intense pain.
Called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H3114) the measure received an 80-27 vote in the House and now moves to the state Senate. More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America.
During the committee hearing, experts talked about unborn children and the pain they feel in abortions.
Dr. Stuart Hamilton, M.D., a Columbia University trained pediatrician and long-time supporter of pro-life legislation, described fetal development for members of the committee. He said he agrees with scientific research demonstrating the unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks after fertilization.
“There is evidence for the probable appreciation of pain by 20 weeks gestation after fertilization,” Dr. Hamilton told the subcommittee. “Anatomically at 20 weeks, the examination of the nervous system displays the appropriate tracks in the central nervous system and the peripheral nerve fibers that are designed to transmit and carry pain impulses.” He went on to explain that at the age of 16 weeks, the baby’s body shows “substantial neurological maturation.” Even at 12 weeks, he said, “The immature constituents of these pathways are clearly visible with magnification.”
A father-son team of physicians also spoke in favor of the bill. Dr. Tom Austin, M.D., a retired neonatologist, and former director of Neonatology at the USC School of Medicine, defined pain as “a noxious insult that one attempts to avoid or repel.” In his practice he treated babies prematurely born at 18 to 22 weeks. “They did show response to stimuli,” he said. “They would respond, move, recoil.”
His son, also Dr. Tom Austin, M.D, is an obstetrician-gynocologist who practices in the Columbia area. He described his experience with delivering pre-mature infants. “I agree with my father. You can see the baby is trying to live.” He also criticized the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a national organization that supports abortion-on-demand. He described ACOG as being closely tied to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Dr. Austin said he is not affiliated with ACOG and instead has joined the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
South Carolina Citizens for Life, the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee which developed the model pain-capable legislation, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the Palmetto Family Council, and the North Greenville Christian World View Center are among the organizations supporting the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
One leading expert in the field of fetal pain, Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand at the University of Tennessee, stated in his expert report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, “It is my opinion that the human fetus possesses the ability to experience pain from 20 weeks of gestation, if not earlier, and the pain perceived by a fetus is possibly more intense than that perceived by term newborns or older children.”
“The neural pathways are present for pain to be experienced quite early by unborn babies,” explains Steven Calvin, M.D., perinatologist, chair of the Program in Human Rights Medicine, University of Minnesota, where he teaches obstetrics.
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/02/11/south-carolina-house-passes-pro-life-bill-to-ban-abortions-after-20-weeks/
The South Carolina state House has approved a pro-life bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, because research shows unborn children can feel intense pain.
Called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H3114) the measure received an 80-27 vote in the House and now moves to the state Senate. More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America.
During the committee hearing, experts talked about unborn children and the pain they feel in abortions.
Dr. Stuart Hamilton, M.D., a Columbia University trained pediatrician and long-time supporter of pro-life legislation, described fetal development for members of the committee. He said he agrees with scientific research demonstrating the unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks after fertilization.
“There is evidence for the probable appreciation of pain by 20 weeks gestation after fertilization,” Dr. Hamilton told the subcommittee. “Anatomically at 20 weeks, the examination of the nervous system displays the appropriate tracks in the central nervous system and the peripheral nerve fibers that are designed to transmit and carry pain impulses.” He went on to explain that at the age of 16 weeks, the baby’s body shows “substantial neurological maturation.” Even at 12 weeks, he said, “The immature constituents of these pathways are clearly visible with magnification.”
A father-son team of physicians also spoke in favor of the bill. Dr. Tom Austin, M.D., a retired neonatologist, and former director of Neonatology at the USC School of Medicine, defined pain as “a noxious insult that one attempts to avoid or repel.” In his practice he treated babies prematurely born at 18 to 22 weeks. “They did show response to stimuli,” he said. “They would respond, move, recoil.”
His son, also Dr. Tom Austin, M.D, is an obstetrician-gynocologist who practices in the Columbia area. He described his experience with delivering pre-mature infants. “I agree with my father. You can see the baby is trying to live.” He also criticized the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a national organization that supports abortion-on-demand. He described ACOG as being closely tied to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business. Dr. Austin said he is not affiliated with ACOG and instead has joined the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
South Carolina Citizens for Life, the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee which developed the model pain-capable legislation, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the Palmetto Family Council, and the North Greenville Christian World View Center are among the organizations supporting the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
One leading expert in the field of fetal pain, Dr. Kanwaljeet S. Anand at the University of Tennessee, stated in his expert report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, “It is my opinion that the human fetus possesses the ability to experience pain from 20 weeks of gestation, if not earlier, and the pain perceived by a fetus is possibly more intense than that perceived by term newborns or older children.”
“The neural pathways are present for pain to be experienced quite early by unborn babies,” explains Steven Calvin, M.D., perinatologist, chair of the Program in Human Rights Medicine, University of Minnesota, where he teaches obstetrics.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Perinatal Hospice Care
If your unborn child has only a limited time to live, please don't have him/her torn limb from limb, stabbed in the chest with poison, and without anesthesia, because it is standard practice to deny anesthesia even after 20 weeks, when it is certain that pain receptors are present and working perfectly. Here are some testimonies from parents who chose not to terminate their pregnancies:
My entire family wanted me to terminate (I still can’t bring myself to write “abort”). They thought it would be easier on me. In the end everyone was so glad that I decided to continue. We all fell in love with her.—Jamie
A perinatologist said things to us like “the outcome will be the same” even if we didn’t induce prematurely. Now that I’m stronger emotionally, I know that the outcome would not be the same. We would not have had all of the special time to share with Gianna during her life in my womb. We would not have been able to share some amazing, precious moments with our baby and our sons.—Jennifer
I really have peace that we carried her to term. I know in my heart that I have given my daughter all that I could and loved her every day of her life.—Annette
http://perinatalhospice.org/Parent_voices.html
Another very moving story to check out - by Hilary Ní Lorcháin.
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