numbers and heard the roars. Now, I have a question for the women of the March
on DC. Why are you making abortion the
defining issue of womanhood? Fracturing between women who defend abortion and
those who defend life is a big fault line indeed.
in which he said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure,
permanently half slave and half
free.”
if we remain so divided on whether it’s okay to kill unborn babies?
warned us: “We
must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred.
If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
who did not need to roar because there was power in her words. Mother Teresa spoke for all women: “Abortion kills twice. It
kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion
is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the
babies and all the mothers.”
Times reported that feminist Gloria Steinem appeared to be elated. “I think I just had to wait for some of
my friends to be born,” the Times quoted her as saying. I. Am. Not. Even.
Kidding.
Broken
and Bruised, Holy and Sanctified and Come
Follow Relax wrote a Facebook post with a question for women who marched
under the umbrella of abortion rights
post:
are protesting? I am sincerely unaware of what they are. Before women were
liberated in the 60’s I had a terrific childhood as a girl. So what that my Daddy had to fight to get me
in the physics class with all the boys. He did it –not an army of protestors.
stepping-stone to my future career as a wife and mother. I was at the top of my game and above all, at
that time, women were put on a pedestal and treasured as superior. I still love
stopping long enough for a real gentleman to open a door for me.
to do wearing the nice little white gloves. I was to hire someone to take care
of my children while I went out of the house to fulfill myself. I didn’t. I stayed at home and helped out in the
schools and in the community. The birth control pill made it easier for
husbands and wives to cheat on each other with no consequences. The cell phone
makes this even easier. Then, if the pill didn’t do its job I was invited to
have an abortion. This happened to me when I was pregnant in my mid thirties
and quite healthy. This pregnancy ended naturally with a miscarriage, which is
technically a spontaneous abortion.
with a gift. And it goes on and on. No
fault divorce made it easy for spouses to bail out and not respond to
responsibilities and move forward leaving carnage in the rear.
hands of the nice place I can go to die quietly and peacefully.
what really are the issues?
Babies are Gifts
march.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about how women are a gift to society, how they
have the ability to bring beauty, caring, joy and love to the world. The
“women’s movement” has decimated that. A woman becomes a mother the
moment the sperm hits the egg, and how that woman has a duty (yes, there is
such a thing as duty) to protect and nurture that child, even to giving her own
life, because that is what a good mother does. What does it say about our
society that women are marching for the right to kill their own children?”