Have you checked out my other project?

In January I started a blog where every day I featured a Pro-Life group or person:

http://diversedirectoryforlife.blogspot.com/

So far, I have featured 76 Pro-Life Web-sites. It's been an education in itself and I've learned a lot and found many great resources. I am not done with the project but am taking a break from on-lilne activism until after Easter. When I come back, I will finish up the project with almost 30 more web-sites.

These groups should encourage the Pro-Lifer and scare the daylights out of the Pro-Abort.

Pro-Choice "Anti-Human" Personality

As part of my on-line activism, I comment regularly on three abortion videos on YouTube. It has really been an education of the Pro-Choice crowd. Here is one example:

I am regularly insulted in the YouTube comboxes, although I have been able to engage a couple of adversaries in respectful dialogue. My experience is that the Pro-Choice side does not take the time to make a thoughtful argument, or maybe they don't have one. So the tactic is to bully Pro-Lifer's into leaving the conversation.

Pro-Lifer's that I have seen are resilient, we are doing important work. We must stay in the conversation. We must not be silent.

Contraception: As Prophesied in 1968

Ever have one of those moments where you grow up and realize that your Dad was right?

1. "Contraception opens wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards."
2. "man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desire, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection."
3. "power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty?...Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone."

Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI, July 25, 1968

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html

Why Contracepting May Cost Us Our Religious Freedom in the USA

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that all employers, including Catholic employers, must purchase health insurance programs for their employees that include contraception, sterilization and abortion inducing drugs.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops have come out swinging and will not accept this mandate. The Catholic Church teaches that it is wrong to frustrate the marital act and prevent new life as a result. At least a couple of generations, mine and my parents have rejected this teaching and now we are at a real risk of losing even the possibility of practicing our faith authentically.

We Catholics have not done our Church any favors. According to this recent study, 98% of us our contracepting:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-contraceptives-religion-idUSTRE73C7W020110413

The natural consequence of this sin on our part is that the world does not take us or our faith seriously. Why would they when we don't? And now our faith and our church is under attack.

Abraham would not even withhold from God his only son Isaac! God Himself did not withhold His only Son for our salvation - and yet, how many sons and daughters have we withheld from God?

My husband and I permanently contracepted by sterilization after our second child was born. I was not Catholic, my husband was not practicing. Our parents had done the same thing when they believed their family was complete. We believed we couldn't afford to raise any more children. We believed that we were doing the socially responsible thing. I have over the years regretted not having more children. I feel a little cheated. I regret my lack of faith in God that is the root of all my sin.

I look at our Grandparents who managed to raise a bunch of kids in harder times than these. They had less technology, less modern conveniences, less money and they raised children faithfully and successfully. What our Grandparents lacked in resources, they made up for with abundant faith. We have lost our way and we don't believe we can do what they did.

That lack of faith in God and our God given ability to procreate and provide for children lead to hopelessness. Hopelessness contributes to abortion. I have read that 28% of women having abortions identify themselves as Catholic. Abortion like suicide, is an act of hopelessness.

So now because we as a people of faith, have failed to be faithful, we may lose the very essence of what it means to be Catholic, forfeiting it to the state.

God help us.

We can have both: Dreams and Children

President Barack Obama says the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the chance to recognize the “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/roe-v-wade/2012/01/23/obama-roe-v-wade-helps-our-daughters-fulfill-their-dreams#ixzz1klCEJJdg


Why doesn't the President think we can have both dreams and children? And what does it say about him that he thinks that our sons have a better chance to fulfill their dreams because they can't carry a child? 


The first thing to realize is that a pregnancy changes a woman forever, no matter the outcome of it. You cannot undo what has been done. An abortion does not help us to fulfill our dreams, but instead creates a lifelong nightmare. 


The second thing is that women are capable of having children and fulfilling our dreams, one does not preclude the other.


And finally, I find it very ironic that the President does not think that the government should involve itself in "family matters" and yet the government surely does in fact intrude on my freedoms by forcing me and my church, a conscientious objector, to pay for abortions.


I hope this President does not get another term to further his Pro-abortion agenda. 

My Sisters in Russia

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/lifestyle/russia-world-s-highest-rate-of-abortions-1.1176756


I have been noting with great interest the number of hits to my web-site from Russia. It's very curious to me, as it is more than 50% of the hits from the U.S. 


Since I am an American, my blog is from that experience. I have had only one abortion, but I have heard that it is not uncommon for Russian women to have many. And I wonder what curiosity, and maybe pain? brings them here to read what I have to say.


According to the attached article, Russia's abortion rate - 1.3 million, or 73 per 100 births in 2009 - is the world's highest.


I just have a feeling that a lot of Russian women may be hurting because of abortion:
http://www.census.gov/population/international/files/ib96-2.pdf
The statistics bear it out.


I'm not sure if my blog provides any comfort at all or if there are any post-abortive services in Russia. I would just say this, perhaps you could reach out to http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/ and begin a ministry of healing for the women in your community. 


I wish you God's peace and love and forgiveness, Dear Sisters. You are in my prayers.

Diverse Directory for Life

My new project is to high-light a different Pro-life organization daily to bring awareness to the diversity and scale of the Pro-Life movement in the U.S. I hope this will dispel myths that Pro-Lifer's are all old, fat, religious, white men who have no business impressing the servitude of motherhood onto women. 


The Pro-Life movement is made up of men and women of all ages, races, political and religious affiliations. I have found some lists and will look at one a day and post it here. I'm going to start with the ones that seem as far away from the stereotypical Pro-Lifer and work my way through the list. There are hundreds! So many in fact, I have had to start a new blog to contain them all!


Check it out:
http://diversedirectoryforlife.blogspot.com/