:: The S.I.C.L.E. Cell ::

:: Saturday, December 22, 2007 ::

This moment of joy brought to you by "choice":

Today (well really yesterday) at the doctor's for a totally unrelated issue, the nurse ran through the litany of illnesses to which I was to answer yes or no. "It says here 'two failed pregnancies,'" she said. Relief washed over me, and I thought, right or wrong, how nice it was that instead of mentioning abortion outright, as in my previous office visits, the medical profession had caught on to using a sterilized term that shielded me from the horror of what I did eleven years ago. Alas, the nurse wanted clarification when she asked, "By 'failed pregnancy' does that mean two miscarriages?" I said, "No, but since I've known you for five seconds let me just tell you about the most horrific, regretful event of my entire life!" And then I laughed and we discussed how stupid it is that the question is even asked during such a ridiculously unrelated appointment.

And on my way to the car it occurred to me that my husband will never be forced to divulge this horrific, embarrassing information to any medical professional ever. And it ticked me off to realize yet again how we aborted our baby together but I'm the only one who has to keep telling people about it.

So refresh me, because I've forgotten how this pain, that is exclusive to me (and not him) empowers me as a woman.

:: ashli 1:10 AM # ::
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Good grief, look at all the flaming negativity (the poll) re: Jamie Lynn Spears' unplanned pregnancy. Planned Parenthood (and abortion supporters who probably make up half of the American population) are always saying, "Your kids are having sex--YOUR kids--as much of it as they can, whether you like it or not!" and then they pimp contraception. But when Jamie Lynn Spears has an unplanned pregnancy the nation is shocked! She becomes a "train wreck," people lump her in with her troubled sister, and the term "trailer trash" is thrown around.

Because she had sex? Couldn't be--that would by hypocrisy 101. Because she got pregnant? Couldn't be, because that implies she did it by herself, and besides, everyone knows contraception cannot guarantee that users will not become pregnant. Again, hypocrisy. Is it because she is responsible enough to give birth to the living, growing child she now carries?

Oh shame on her for not killing the baby she and her boyfriend chose to make when they accepted the risk of "gettin' they teenaged freak on."

Sex, sex, sex. All the teens are having sex. So why is everyone in such an uproar that Jamie Lynn Spears had some? And why isn't Planned Parenthood coming to girlfriend's public defense when it's perfectly normal??? So again, is everyone really upset that Jamie Lynn had sex or are they just ticked off that she didn't kill her child in an abortion like everyone in her situation is expected to do?

If I was a gamblin' gal, I'd bet big money that the fact that she had teen sex isn't viewed as irresponsible as meeting her unplanned pregnancy with unplanned joy instead of abortion.

Well, GOOD FOR YOU, Jamie Lynn! You've got chutzpah and a lot more class than the public is giving you credit for. You hang in there and enjoy this special time with your precious little one. At 16 you already understand that moms should make sacrifices for their kids, not of them.

You're going to be OK!

:: ashli 12:10 AM # ::
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I've been having some health issues for over a year now that have ferried me to the knock-out table and positioned me under the knife and/or foot-long needles on more than one occasion. This week, after scraping me off the ceiling post-(particularly painful) procedure, I recouped at home in anticipation of what the neurologist would say today.

Would you believe that my doctor gave me all of my choices, explaining them in graphic detail, and listing all the pros and cons of each option? And at the conclusion of the appointment he even informed me that as my physician, he would not allow me to make a decision today. Despite the fact that in the past he has made all of these choices clear possibilities for my medical future and I have had time to ponder them, he would not allow me to choose today, because he wanted me to go home and give extra consideration to a choice that will carry consequences that affect the rest of my life.

This particular deliberation pertains to pain and surgical procedures--things not half as important as the choice whether or not to destroy one's own living, growing child.

Curiously my physician seemed unaffected by my gender, that is, he did not automatically defer to my choices without question based solely on my womanhood. Instead of treating me with superiority, he treated me equally--like any person, male or female, who has a big decision to make. And you know something? I am not offended. Are you? When you read this account, do your cheeks flush red and your heart rate increase? Or does it sound like good medicine? Do you, like me, believe that my doctor's handling of the situation was respectful, wise and not at all rocket science?

Yet if an abortionist told a woman to go home and think it over, to really consider all her options--heck, if he explained all the options and all the pros and cons of the options to the woman--if he explained the procedure itself using anatomical terms and not generalizations like "tissue," if he did all this--or if women were protected by a legal mandate for this level of care, it would somehow be unthinkable!

It seems that when it's a neurosurgeon doing the talking, he's a thorough, wonderful physician, but if an abortionist says the same things, or if he is required to say the same things, then he or his legislator is a paternalistic, woman-hating bastard.

I dare say Mr. Spock would have a problem with the logic.

:: ashli 9:56 PM # ::
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Out of respect for Christians everywhere Planned Parenthood has decided to revise their Christmas cards not only to sound more like the original Biblical text but also to reflect a little more accurately what they mean by "choice":


















From everyone at Planned Parenthood,
Merry curettemas!

:: ashli 9:45 PM # ::
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They could have just shown the comic book, card and commercial and that would have been enough. The extra is a little distracting. Still, I include the video for the sake of the aforementioned items.

:: ashli 11:25 AM # ::
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RealChoice gets ink at the Washington Times blog!

You GO, Christina!!!

:: ashli 3:58 PM # ::
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Speaking of football...

When history-making Tim Tebow's mother was pregnant with him, she contracted amoebic dysentery and went into a coma. The medication that was administered was strong--so strong in fact that the doctors told her the fetus (aka Tiny Tim) was irreversibly damaged and should be aborted. But Tim's mom followed Christ, even when it hurt, and Tim grew up to be the first sophomore ever to win the Heisman.

So I propose a new poster:

An extra 7 pounds
could make life
difficult at times...






















but then again...
it could make
football history!

Choose life. It's worth it.

HT: Dar

:: ashli 3:44 PM # ::
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The fine print at the bottom of this poster, hanging at a Planned Parenthood facility, says:

"Become a father before you're ready and you may always wonder what else you could have done."

Perhaps it should say:

"Hack your kid to bits in an abortion and you may always wonder who s/he would have been."

Lessee...my own flesh and blood or a spot on the high school football team. Hmmmm...boy, that's a tough one.

C'mon, people! Even avid, avid abortion supporter Christina Aguilera knows that nothing's more important than your baby! In this month's issue of Marie Claire Christina talks about performing some semi-risky show-stoppers at her concerts (such as hanging from a circus pinwheel) while pregnant, saying she took extra precautions like wearing a well-concealed heart monitor. "There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show," Christina reasons.

If she won't risk her child's health and safety for a multi-million dollar, fame-perpetuating show, then why should anyone else risk or endanger his child for a spot on the high school football team?

Is her baby more important than yours?

:: ashli 11:27 PM # ::
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Every life matters. Sleep well, sweet princess.


Please consider sending a financial gift to:

The Riley Ann Sawyers Fund
First Merit Bank
Attn.: Ellen Forbus
7800 Reynolds Road
Mentor, OH 44060

This will help Riley's dad and grandmother pay for Riley's transportation back to Ohio, any funeral-related expenses, and it will help Riley's dad and grandmother with travel expenses associated with the trial which will be held in Texas, well over a thousand miles away. They want to be there every step of the way as justice is sought out for Riley.

:: ashli 12:39 PM # ::
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It's Perfectly Normal



I guess it's "pefectly normal" when the activities lead little 12-year-old girls right to the doors of their local Planned Parenthood abortion businesses...where adults abort and kill adolescents' "perfectly normal" babies...because while 10-year-olds are apparently old enough to act like adults in bed, and old enough to deal with the emotional repercussions of having their own children extracted from their bodies and thus killed, they're not old enough to have a baby.

(???)

Is it me, or does it make more sense to teach children to choose not to have sex until they are ready to have a baby, because babies come from having sex, and it's a big huge deal to either have a baby or kill one?

"Perfectly Normal?" To the devil with that; I choose common freaking sense, hello!

:: ashli 12:38 AM # ::
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) says it will likely add working the graveyard shift to its list of carcinogens, because, for one, higher breast cancer rates have been found in women who work the graveyard shift. What the?! Umm...I'm thinking there's at least as much science behind the ABC link so why wont the ACS acknowledge that???

:: ashli 10:19 PM # ::
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Picking it to pieces:

"But Dr. Wicklund acknowledges that abortion is an issue fraught with dilemmas. In the book, she describes witnessing, as a medical student, the abortion of a 21-week fetus. She writes that at the sight of its tiny arm she decided she would perform abortions only in the first trimester of pregnancy. She says late-term abortions should be legal, but her decision means she occasionally sees desperate women she must refuse to help."

OK, so...she didn't like the sight of the tiny arm, so she decided to limit her killings to children with tinier arms.

Although, it should be legal to destroy the bigger 21-week arms.

But not by her, because that would be wrong. No wait, not wrong. Just bad. No wait, not bad...just...not good...wait...

"Dr. Wicklund describes her horror when she aborted the pregnancy of a woman who had been raped, only to discover, by examining the removed tissue, that the pregnancy was further along than she or the woman had thought — and that she had destroyed an embryo the woman and her husband had conceived together."

The "removed tissue." Yyyyeah. Wait--I thought when it's your nice husband's baby it's a baby, but when it's a bad rapist's baby it's "tissue." It's like magic: a good man makes a baby, and a bad man makes tissue. OK, that explains it. The "doctor" is "horrified" because she accidentally whacked a BABY and not tissue! "Pro-choice" biology--it's just so confusing!

"And she describes the way she watches and listens as the women she treats tell why they want to end their pregnancies. If she detects uncertainty or thinks they may be responding to the wishes of anyone other than themselves, she says, she tells them to think it over a bit longer.

On the other hand, Dr. Wicklund has little use for requirements like 24-hour waiting periods, or for assertions like those of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who said in a recent Supreme Court decision on abortion that the government had an interest in protecting women from their own decisions in the matter.

'It’s so incredibly insulting,' Dr. Wicklund said in the interview. 'The 24-hour waiting period implies that women don’t think about it on their own and have to have the government forcing it on them. To me a lot of the abortion restrictions are about control of women, about power, and it’s insulting.'”

The abortionist "watches" women for uncertainty or coercion and then suggests to them that they have not taken enough time with their decision. Why would she do this if she is not interested in "protecting women from their own decisions in the matter?" And how come it's not "so incredibly insulting" when she "implies that women don't think about it on their own?" I guess this is "pro-choice" psychology, and individuals who work for the government question women because they are trying to control and subdue them while abortionists question women because they are trying to protect them. Makes perfect sense! Speaking of making cents, how much money does Justice Kennedy make off of aborting women's children? And how much does Wicklund make?

"That is unfortunate, she said, because her clinic experience confirms studies showing that emphasizing abstinence rather than contraception may cause girls to delay their first sexual experience for a few months, but “when they do have intercourse they are much less likely to protect themselves with birth control or a condom.”

First, Wicklund refers to the people she sees at her abortion business as "girls," yet when she criticizes Justice Kennedy above, she refers to them as "women." Now, "girls" can't get their ears pierced or see an R-rated movie alone until they're women. I wonder why Wicklund thinks that is. Power and control over the female sex? Or is this another case of "abortion magic" where the government is obviously seeking to protect the people in our society from decisions they might regret...unless, of course, the decision has to do with abortion, in which case the government should keep their filthy paws off abortion's silky drawers.

Next, don't they teach reference citing in journalism anymore? And exactly how does her "clinic experience" confirm the details of the unreferenced studies? How can she tell when girls delay their first sexual experience for "a few months" and how can she tell they are much less likely to protect themselves with birth control?" Are more of her patients abstinence only-trained? Or are the vast majority birth control-trained like I was in puhblik skooll? And why are those girls at the abortion business anyway when birth-control training solves the problem of abortion? You know, to the untrained eye, it looks like Wicklund is merely pulling comments out of her arse in hopes the reader will assume them as fact unquestioningly. But of course, she's using "pro-choice" scientific methodology, so you know it's sound.

"a woman she recognized as one of the protesters who regularly appeared, shouting, outside a clinic where she worked. Only now the woman was in the waiting room, desperate to end an unwanted pregnancy. Dr. Wicklund performed the procedure."

Oh my goodness. That would make the "pro-lifer" a big fat hypocrite, wouldn't it! Not like the "good doctor" who wouldn't harm a child with a 21-week arm but would expect someone else to do it. Not like Wicklund who questions women's abortion decisions daily but who is insulted when anyone else does. That's consistency. Damn those "lifer" hypocrites!

“It is one of the few areas of medicine where you are not working with a sick person, you are doing something for them that gives them back their life, their control,” she added. “It’s a very rewarding thing to be part of that.”

Jiminy Crickets, Batman! Do you mean to tell me that abortion is an "area of medicine" where you are not working with a sick person???!!? Prithee, what then is all the hullabaloo over the health exception? Do you mean that this "doctor" sees so few sick women--if any--that she makes the comment that abortionists are NOT working with sick women??? Flaming bug nuts!

Stop using me in your court documents then! Stop using me and women like me or start telling the truth--that there's another experience...the kind that finds you in a Cell, the experience that bears the kind of pain that nestles in the warm vascular tissue of permanent regret and grows like a life-sucking tumor for the remainder of days. And know, Wicklund, KNOW that you are also a part of that.

HT: JD

:: ashli 6:10 PM # ::
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"Have an abortion or leave..."



"I left."

:: ashli 5:41 PM # ::
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The most noble thing...

:: ashli 9:46 PM # ::
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Eduardo Verástegui:
gorgeous on the inside too!

Interviewer:
You visited an abortion clinic as part of your research for your part in Bella. Tell me about that.

Eduardo:
This is the biggest, hardest role I’ve done in my life, and on top of that I was producing as well.

I ended up going to an abortion clinic because I wanted to do research — to understand my character and understand the pain she was going through so I could help her. I thought it would be very simple and easy — just get in there, stop the first young lady and ask her a few questions. Of course, I was very naive and I didn’t know what was going to happen.

When I got there, I was in shock because I saw all young ladies — 16, 17 years old — going in, and I forgot about the film and I didn’t know what to say.

I see a group of people outside trying to convince a lady not to do it. A lady in that group pointed me to a couple who didn’t speak English, only Spanish. The couple recognizes me from the soap operas, and we start talking for like 45 minutes and became friends. We talked about life and faith and Mexico and her dreams. And she missed her appointment.

I called her the next day and said, “Listen, I don’t believe in coincidences; I was there for a reason.” So we built a friendship through the phone.

Months later I receive a call from a man who was there that day and he tells me he has great news: his baby was born yesterday, and he wanted to ask me permission to name him Eduardo.

I couldn’t even talk. I just started crying.

I didn’t plan to do that, but I was used by the grace of God as an instrument to save this beautiful baby. Even if Bella doesn’t sell one ticket, I rejoice in the Lord for little Eduardo.

:: ashli 12:17 PM # ::
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"It's not enough to depend on parents to protect their children because there may be students who can't discuss things with their parents."

Depending on parents to "protect their children" literally translates:
depending on parents to provide their 11 to 13-year-olds with birth control pills.

So King Middle School's opinion is:
To the devil with parents like me, who are organic, grain-grinding hippies who spend the extra dollar for the hormone-free chicken and milk. To the devil with a woman's choice to raise her 6th grader in a chaste environment that is birth control free, because as the article states: "Students treated at the centers must first get written parental permission, but under state law such treatment is confidential, and students decide for themselves whether to tell their parents about the services they receive."

11-year-olds deciding huge, life-altering issues for themselves! These kids are still watching Nickelodeon for Pete's sake. They can't get their ears pierced or go to an R-rated movie, but they're getting sex aids at school? Condoms and PHARMACEUTICALS?!? Sure, they're reading all the drug manufacturer info that comes with the packet of pills that their trusted role model hands them; 11-year-olds are really good with medical jargon. ARE THESE ADULTS FLIPPING CRAZY?

I'm telling you, liberal extremists are running the schools anymore, and I'm SO GLAD that I homeschool. It's not enough to depend on educated adults to protect my children, because teachers and school board members have decided that their rights to indoctrinate children trump parental rights. It's baffling.

Girls are maturing earlier (due in part, perhaps, to all the hormones we pump in our food). When an 11-year-old King Middle School student becomes pregnant because she forgot to take a pill or because a school-issued condom broke, just where do you think that 11-year-old is headed?

It's funny how liberals use the case of the very adolescent pregnant person to sell abortion...and yet, they're the ones encouraging the same children to put themselves at risk for pregnancy. Does this sound educated?

Appalling.

You know, people just don't stand a chance when this is the culture. A child whose parents tell her one thing but then ship her off to spend the majority of her time with wolves, is going to learn to follow the pack. Her parents entrusted her to the school and the establishment says "free love/free condoms." (And an establishment that hands out condoms and birth control pills is not above ferrying children to abortion businesses.) Why shouldn't the student trust the school when her parents obviously do?

In case you missed it, this is a liberal machine turning out the worst kind of sausage.

These are YOUR children, parents. YOUR responsibility. Don't forfeit your authority. TAKE CONTROL.

:: ashli 9:10 AM # ::
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Express your contempt for abortion.

:: ashli 4:36 PM # ::
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Thank God.

:: ashli 11:12 AM # ::
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Bringing to light what Planned Parenthood would like kept in the dark.

:: ashli 8:56 PM # ::
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Some talking points:

*Roughly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11--America calls it terrorism.
>5,000 people killed by Planned Parenthood every week--America calls it "choice."

*When Planned Parenthood condoms were rated for strength and durability they came in dead last. Their response? They went to colleges and gave them out liberally.

*Last year tax payers doled out $305.3 million to underwrite Planned Parenthood.

*Planned Parenthood exposure increses the premarital sex rate of young people by 50%.

Listen.
(28 minutes.)

:: ashli 11:39 PM # ::
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Sometimes the outcome is easy for us to accept.

HT: LA

:: ashli 2:49 PM # ::
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This is an interesting article, but David OBVIOUSLY doesn't know any "lifers." We do help babies after they're born (to the point of personal exhaustion), AND their mamas (double the exhaustion), and I'd like to know just exactly how "choicers" think they're helping women after they help procure the abortion, because honey, I don't remember any of them there at my side when I was pickling myself at 3 A.M. and eying my beautiful 357 with yet another, equally romantic choice on my mind. Happiness is a warm gun (after abortion).

Also, re: "choicers" having pictures of women hurt by abortion and "lifers" having pictures of children hurt by abortion...lifers don't frame the argument as being mothers v. children. We love them both, and truth be told we probably hold many more pictures of women killed by abortion than "choicers" do. Maybe we oughtta start dragging those out. Certainly our pictures are more recent than the "choicers'," and I don't know why, because illegal abortions are still occurring--I wouldn't think it very hard for "choicers" to get their meat hooks into a few. Or could it be that they are being deliberately buried by "choicers" due to the fact that legalizing abortion was supposed to put an end to illegal abortion deaths. (Oopsie!)

In the article the author frets about the "lifer" sex life. Well, Dave, I'm here to tell ya that lifers get lots and lots of crazy sex. Probably more sex than someone who is not married and who has to search for partners to tow off to bed. See, I don't even have to concoct a story or try to look sexy. At any given moment I can look at a tall slice of heaven, snap my fingers, and say the magic words: "Sex. Now," and bang, zoom, we're off to the moon! I'm so hardcore "lifer" it hurts, yet I can get all the sex I want...and sexy sex too, because I don't have to worry about waking up a week later with a foul-smelling purulent discharge oozing out of my vagina or warts or runny sores popping up all over my vulva--not very sexy, baby.

The sex, comment is rather cliche, Dave, but in the war of symbols, the "choicer" media is interviewing the nun on camera. I was standing on a sidewalk in a Life Chain, with my non-graphic, big ol' sign that read "ABORTION HURTS WOMEN," looking hip and sexy as ever, if I may say so, and the media deliberately skipped anyone who looked like they might have even half-an-ounce of sanity--they opted for the nun in full habit with the rosary beads and the bishop-looking dude with the 8-foot poster of a ripped up, eviscerated, aborted little child.

You're hitting on something in your article, Dave baby, but get to know us before you write the next one. Come out into the trenches and watch us sexy "lifers" work. Every move a picture.

HT: CD

:: ashli 9:36 AM # ::
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This is day 16.

:: ashli 9:18 AM # ::
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Jill is right.

:: ashli 1:27 PM # ::
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Sound advice from The Raving Atheist:

"The most common argument that you should be prepared to counter is the one that asserts that a prohibition against killing after conception can only be accepted if one believes that the fetus has a 'soul.' You can respond by asking if an eight month old fetus has a soul, if a newborn baby has a soul, if a teenager has a soul, if an adult has a soul. If they respond 'yes,' you can point out that they are relying on an equally religious argument. If they deny the existence of souls, you can ask if that makes it okay to kill anyone at any time."

:: ashli 8:56 PM # ::
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"Maybe Kate could understand this though. Maybe because you are not that accessible, a child will have the opportunity to live and grow up and maybe become your care giver when you are too old to care for yourself."

:: ashli 12:07 PM # ::
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I wish 2008 would just GET HERE ALREADY!!!

:: ashli 11:59 AM # ::
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Mega props to one brave lady:

Michelle Arnesto-Berg














(Listen to Michelle.)

:: ashli 3:13 PM # ::
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This one's for you, Eleanor...


Eleanor Ruder
~October 4, 2007~

:: ashli 2:28 PM # ::
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10/40

Prayers for days 1-14

:: ashli 3:29 PM # ::
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This one simply had to be posted (with permission) in full:

"Sunday, September 30, 2007

A Pro-Lifer's Experience With RU-486
I haven't been on here in a few days. I wanted to write this post, but also wanted to be sure that I got it right. I wanted to write about my own experience taking Mifeprex, the abortion drug known as RU-486.

In July of 2006, I was 18 weeks pregnant with our sixth child. We were excited about this new person , but had all of the normal trepidations that come with a new baby. I don't think it matters if you are expecting your first or your tenth, the worries and fears are all the same.

On the fourth of July, we went to a friend's house for swimming and a bar-be-que in celebration, with plans to go downtown to watch the fireworks that night. I hadn't been feeling right for a couple of days and complained to my friend that I had a back ache, and just generally felt run down. I spent the day curled up in a chair and went home before the fireworks began.

The next day, I had the kids' grandmother come over and I drove myself in to my midwife's office for a little reassurance and to just get peace of mind that everything was okay. It wasn't. Our baby had died at some point during the previous week. I was given three options for what to do now:

1. Surgical intervention- Called a D&E, the doctor would dilate my cervix and evacuate the "contents" of my uterus (that's the way he put it..touching isn't it?)
2. Induce labor with Mifeprex within the next 24 hours to get things over with quickly
3. Wait for nature to take care of it.

Normally I'm in favor of doing things naturally, but it could have taken 2 or more weeks for me to go into labor, and I didn't feel that I could emotionally handle walking around with my dead baby inside of me waiting to set off an emotional time bomb. I chose the induction, then I had to call my husband and tell him our baby was dead, then tell our other children.

We went to the hospital the next morning at 9:00 AM for the induction. I was told that it could take up to 24 hours for labor to begin. Really, I just wanted them to give me the drugs and let me go home. I didn't want to spend 24 hours on the maternity ward listening to the cries of other people's healthy babies and wait for my own heartbreak to begin. I have been in labor a few times and thought it was reasonable to think that I would know when to come to the hospital. I was told I could bleed to death. I stayed.

Labor began for me about 3 hours after I took the first dosage. It was administered both orally and vaginally. Within the first hour, I understood why I couldn't have gone home. I began to pass blood clots. They came in steady succession like pearls on a string. They ranged in size from the size of a chicken's egg to as large as my fist. Every time I moved another clot would become loose and come out. I thought I was hemorrhaging; I thought I was going to bleed to death. It was horrific. I forgot why I was there for a while and just sat on the bed crying and shaking in fear that my 4 living children would grow up without me. I have no idea how much blood came out of my body. I stopped counting clots at 20. After 20, it just didn't seem to matter any more. I asked the nurse if my experience was normal and she assured me that this was what an RU-486 abortion looked like and that I was fine.

Our daughter's body was delivered four and a half hours after the first contraction. She was the size of my hand. She was smooth and shiny and pink with perfect fingers and toes. Heartbreakingly small and achingly perfect. Our midwife wiped her clean and laid her on a blanket before handing her to me. I have never seen such agony as I saw on my husband's face when he heard her whisper, "It's a girl." His face looked like it folded in on itself. Our baby was really and truly dead. Somehow it didn't seem real until we held her in our hands and looked at her through our tears.

It wasn't over yet. I still had to deliver the placenta. It took another two hours for it to let go and come out of me. The doctor who was supervising kept coming by to check and ask "Is it out yet?" in a strangely cold voice. I later learned from my midwife that she performed abortions herself and was deeply disturbed by our pain. She told our midwife to get us out of the hospital as quickly as possible because we were upsetting the staff, and that she didn't understand why we were crying over something which was little more than a tumor in medical terms.

I can not imagine being 14, at home, trying to hide this from my mother, and having this experience. My brain can't even get to that place of fear. A child, scared and alone, passing blood clot after blood clot, thinking you're bleeding to death, but afraid to tell in case you aren't. And then, delivering that impossibly small body. Perfect, lifeless, and undeniably human. What does a little girl do when her body hurts that much, and her mind fears that much, and her baby lies dead in her hand? How is this okay?

I am not sure what the answers are, but I do know that women deserve better than to be treated this way. Our bodies and our minds deserve better protection. People can chant and scream about the rights of women, but I know that women and girls have a right to something better than this. They have a right to something better than abortion."

HT: JD

:: ashli 3:18 PM # ::
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"I thought I couldn't afford you and I could see no way out.. the only people I had were inside the clinic. Little did I know there were people outside who actually cared for you, I was told they were harassers and not to stop for them. I was taught to fear them, but now I have been embraced by them and their love and even though I did something they believe so firmly against, they took my under their wing to guide me and help me to heal."

:: ashli 12:26 AM # ::
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If you have published a picture of the three-year-old girl who was raped on video tape, please remove her picture and name from your Web site. However, please continue publishing pictures of her rapist, Chester Arthur Stiles and Darren Tuck, the guy who had the video for MONTHS and shared it with his buddies for entertainment purposes. (Tuck has turned himself in.)

(Wouldn't it be nice if the media were hunting and hounding criminals-at-large, rather than Britney Spears?)

:: ashli 10:43 PM # ::
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Thank you, Jesus, for answering this prayer so quickly and in a way that is so easy for me to understand and accept. Please comfort this little one and protect her from this type of victimization from now on. Please also expose those similar cases that are going on, concealed, this very moment. Please rescue the little ones; please save the children.

I ask these things in your name, Christ Jesus.
Amen.

:: ashli 9:22 PM # ::
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS LITTLE GIRL?

(Pictures removed to protect the now seven-year-old's privacy.)

IF SO, PLEASE CALL POLICE IMMEDIATELY SO THAT SHE CAN BE RESCUED FROM HER HELLISH NIGHTMARE.

Her name is thought to be (removed to protect the child), and her life (if she still has one) is probably in danger.

Here is a picture of the man who is shown raping her in the video:

















He is believed to be Chester Arthur Stiles:


















IF YOU SEE HIM CALL THE POLICE.

BTW, here is a photo of the bottom-feeder who had the video for months and shared it with buddies for entertainment purposes. (One of the viewers grew a conscience and contacted the police.) This sicko, Darren Tuck, is walking free tonight, but is wanted in connection with violation of probation, which violates the terms of his recent release.
Remember his face:

:: ashli 4:08 PM # ::
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Forty Days begins tomorrow.



Prayers for days 1-4
Prayers for days 5-8
(More coming soon.)

:: ashli 5:43 PM # ::
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This is just weird when you consider that we live in a society that values so much the freedom to do as we please with our own bodies...that it has deemed plucking a child from his/her life support and discarding him/her (i.e., abortion) acceptable.

Thus a sixteen-year-old can walk into Tiller's in Kansas and abort her baby at 9 months, but the same youngster will have to fight a legal battle if she would rather employ homeopathy than chemo to treat her cancer.

With the exception of abortion, laws are all over her body: she can't smoke, she can't drink alcohol, she can't sell her body on the street, can't smoke crack, she can't go to an R-rated movie etc.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's great that a child is not allowed to inhale toxins into her own lungs, is not allowed to introduce toxins into her digestive system. I think it's wonderful that women are not allowed to sell their bodies on the street (not because I want to spoil their fun or control them, but because I believe with all my heart that prostitution is not good for women physically, emotionally and spiritually).

When a 17-year-old girl is not allowed to refuse a blood transfusion but is allowed to have her child ripped from her womb something is awry. How is "my body, my choice" only applicable in the situation that actually extends to someone else's body?

Interesting logic.

:: ashli 10:23 AM # ::
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If abortion supporters feel that a woman should be able to do what she wants with her body, if government should keep its laws off women's ovaries, uteri and other body parts, then what are abortion supporters doing to ensure the right of women to inhale crack into our lungs as we use our bodies to ply trade in the oldest profession? I certainly hope abortion supporters are doing everything they can to make these freedoms a reality for women everywhere. Because if they aren't, then the message of "My body, my choice," is at best insincere.

(Warning: some profanity)

:: ashli 1:46 PM # ::
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Find your way back.



HT: PS

:: ashli 9:57 AM # ::
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A picture (and post) of Patte the Brave!

:: ashli 9:20 PM # ::
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Miss Tavish visits the Dawn Patrol and does it again!

No one in my family or my husband's family cares at all about our first baby, which probably helps to explain why s/he was aborted in the second trimester. So I couldn't help but get teary as I watched and listened to the citizens in the videos standing up for my child and all the children like him/her. It's precious to me to know that others recognize my baby as a baby and care very much about what happened to our family when we made the horrible choice of abortion.

:: ashli 9:12 PM # ::
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"You need a place to go--a place to go at Christmas and Easter and birthdays and to put flowers. If you don't a have cemetery to go to, you've got nothing," she said.

As the mother of an aborted child, I am intimately familiar with this particular "uniqueness."

:: ashli 9:08 PM # ::
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Look at this story published in World magazine. It gives an account of our own Patte Smith being physically attacked by a man who accompanied a woman to a late term abortion appointment.

"Using the assailant's license plate, police learned that his name is Dr. Nelson Kraucak, a practitioner of traditional and holistic medicine. Kraucak did not return two calls from WORLD requesting an interview. But the Orange County Clerk of Court confirmed that the Orlando state attorney's office on Dec. 21 filed battery charges against the physician."

The article is on how the media turns a blind eye to the violence committed against people who are anti-abortion.

Here is a page with much on the subject. It includes Patte's video referenced in the aforementioned World article:



Update:
The court decided that the man shown in the video was not guilty of attacking Patte the pro-lifer.

Is this the same guy the Florida Department of Health previously found to demonstrate "a lack of honesty, integrity and judgment and an unwillingness to abide by law?"

:: ashli 8:12 PM # ::
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I'm With Fred!

:: ashli 7:57 PM # ::
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Oh the things over which I would muse if only I had time! But since I don't, little intermittent blurbs must suffice...

Madeline Pecora Nugent does it again! This is going to be such a wonderful resource for OBs to recommend to patients who need it:














































I CAN'T WAIT!!!

:: ashli 10:34 PM # ::
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When I have time (yeah, right) remind me to tell you about a quote from the movie Over the Hedge, and an excerpt from a book I'm reading called Holding Time.

:: ashli 12:46 PM # ::
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Paying for health with the lives of children is not the way to go. Trust me. I know.

HT: Jai

:: ashli 11:38 PM # ::
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Well it's Big Ten for Tennessee...

"Happy, happy, my dove. Sorry is not enough. Love is not enough. All I have to offer is what I am now and how I've reacted to what happened to you. Your life has helped a lot of people. I'm sorry it couldn't help you. I didn't do my best when you were here, but I do my best now. Loved or hated, popular or unpopular, revered or reviled...I stand for Truth.

In 1997 I laid down and gave your life away.

Now I stand for you."

:: ashli 12:59 PM # ::
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How to say no to someone you don't want to say no to:

"Hey, ***. I got the fundraiser solicitation from *** (along with the humorous pic of ***) and now find myself in a most awkward position.

The Predicament
I have this friend who not only wholeheartedly supports one of my biggest crusades but who has personally sacrificed for it...not to mention the fact that**********. You must know that verily there is little I would not do for this friend. And yet...

I can't contribute to MOD because:

1. I suspect that one of MOD's agendas is in fact eugenics (via the one-two combo of prenatal screening and TOP), and what I know about MOD (and their various advisory committee members, grants, etc.) does not convince me otherwise, despite their firm declarations to the contrary.

2. I'm fairly convinced that TOP (particularly repeat and advanced term) can increase the risk of preterm birth1-2 (which could explain why there are more cases of preterm birth today than twenty years ago when repeat and advanced term TOP rates were lower).3

So although I support you 110%, the combination of my suspicions and deep convictions prevents me from participating in the MOD fundraiser. However, I have made a $25 donation to the Michael Fund (International Foundation for Genetic Research) in your honor. I hope that can suffice, and I hope you understand that you have all my respect and admiration for the good things you are ultimately trying to achieve on behalf of your fellow man.

~
1. Ancel PY, et al. History of induced abortion as a risk factor for preterm birth in European countries: results of the EUROPOP survey
Hum Reprod. (Mar 2004)v19n3p734-40

2. Zhou W, et al. Induced abortion and subsequent pregnancy duration
Obstet Gynecol. (Dec 1999)v94n6p948-53

3. CDC/NCHS Legal abortions and legal abortion ratios, by selected patient characteristics, United States, selected years 1973-2003
Health, United States, 2006. Table 16 Page 171"

HT: Banannie @ aA for footnotes 1 and 2..

:: ashli 6:53 PM # ::
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Well, this was an interesting (and too-close-for-comfort) read.

:: ashli 5:25 PM # ::
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More from Karl Kohlhase...

Give Me a Chance

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A very dear friend wrote to say that he is taking part in a fund raiser that will benefit the March of Dimes (MOD) citing his admirable frustration over preterm birth and lauding MOD's commitment to preventing it. After all, as he wrote, MOD's mission is to "improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality." Well, we all want that. However some of us do not believe in health by death and are aware of the evidence that suggests that's exactly what MOD is advocating.

As I say, this gentleman is a valued friend. He has supported me in endeavors that are extremely important to me, and there isn't much I wouldn't do for him. However, when he asked me to participate in this fund raiser, via donation, it broke my heart, because I have to say no. And while I'm not obligated to provide an explanation, and while he probably doesn't at all want to know why, and while it may injure his feelings or our rewarding friendship...I am going to provide a reason...and an alternative.

My awkward but careful (considerate) explanation will consist of these two points:


1. I suspect that one of MOD’s agendas is in fact eugenics (via the one-two combo of prenatal testing and TOP [termination of pregnancy]), and what I know about MOD (and their various advisory committee members, grants, etc.) does not convince me otherwise, despite their declarations to the contrary.

2. I’m fairly convinced that TOP (particularly repeat and advanced term) can increase the risk of preterm birth1-2 (which could explain why there are more cases of preterm birth today than twenty years ago when repeat and advanced term TOP rates were lower).3

I will craft and publish this note leaving out any identifying particulars in hopes that it can help someone else who encounters any sort of similar sticky wicket with a friend.

HT: TRA and The Banannie whose posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here are utterly phenomenal (as is this song).

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1. Ancel PY, et al. History of induced abortion as a risk factor for preterm birth in European countries: results of the EUROPOP survey
Hum Reprod. (Mar 2004)v19n3p734-40

2. Zhou W, et al. Induced abortion and subsequent pregnancy duration
Obstet Gynecol. (Dec 1999)v94n6p948-53

3. CDC/NCHS Legal abortions and legal abortion ratios, by selected patient characteristics, United States, selected years 1973-2003)
Health, United States, 2006 Table 16 Page 171

:: ashli 12:28 AM # ::
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Freelance reporters faced with an unplanned pregnancy at an inconvenient time:

"I turned to the Internet, hoping to find some clarity. Instead I found anti-abortion Web sites that terrified me with images of dead fetuses and stories of women scarred for life. The opposing sites, which listed statistics of women who had thrived postabortion and detailed the political fight to keep access available, were not much better. I was looking for direction and found the political-speak meaningless and unhelpful."

HT: Patte

:: ashli 8:46 PM # ::
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Pamela Has a Problem...

(Child's radio program tackles abortion.)

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With permission, an anonymous email from a reader:

"Hi there, I just wanted to make sure you knew about this bill (and a petition for it) that would require doctors to give parents good information on their child's prenatal diagnosis and referrals to support groups, etc. I saw in your archives that you experienced the pressure to abort children with disabilities when your son was incorrectly diagnosed with Down Syndrome before he was born (that 2003 post is SO good by the way). This bill could help to stop that kind of pressure and reduce the horribly high abortion rate for children who are prenatally diagnosed with a disability. You can read about it here. (Some folks will want to have their signatures displayed as "anonymous" on the petition, because otherwise it shows signers' e-mails.) "

Noelle, the petition's sponsor, talks about the bill:



Noelle's video blog includes videos like this one:

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

:: ashli 10:43 PM # ::
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Down syndrome that wasn't Down syndrome and a mom who needs your prayers "YESTERDAY."

HT: Mr. Nice Guy

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I can't wait til Spring of 2008!
Please get a copy of this book and give it to every OB you know.

:: ashli 10:45 PM # ::
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"Whose fault is it when aborting women die? It depends, according to abortion proponents. If the abortion was illegal, [prolifers] are. If the abortion was legal, [the aborting woman] is."

I freaking love Jill.

:: ashli 5:43 PM # ::
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For those whose pain is complicated and isolating...

"'Everybody says the worst thing that could ever happen is the death of a child,'" says Janette Fennell, the advocacy group's founder and president. 'What's different in these, in over 70 percent of the cases, it's a direct relative of the child that's behind the wheel--mom or dad, grandma or grandpa, aunt or uncle."'

Losing a child, compounded by unimaginable guilt over who was responsible for the accident, leaves families traumatized and immobilized in their grief. With no easy answers for why it happened to their child or their family, anger and blame often are misdirected. The strain on relationships can be tremendous."

I know I'm not allowed to claim that my family's emotional experience is this exactly. But it is. It's this and more, because, although the death was unwanted, it was arranged. It was asked for. It was paid for. And so I'm told I have no right to the evolved feelings of a "good" parent, an innocent parent, like a parent who is unintentionally the source of her child's death. Indeed, the concept of this very post, a parallel, will boil the blood of some who read it.

The idea is that my love is inferior so what could I possibly know of it? To what depth could I possibly feel love, much less the sting of the death and loss of it? How could it be complicated when in all simplicity I am the basest progeny-eating animal?

I can only suggest that either I break the rules or they don't apply. Could it be more complex than "inferior love?"

I'm contemplative because I've had an unusually interesting influx of correspondence and chatter of late, seeming to be destined for experiences outside the usual human realm. Would that I was a dull figure carved of some unfeeling material but I'm not. Would that eyes wore marble cataracts but they don't. I see and feel.

And when I don't make excuses for myself I am called a self-flagellator.
When I don't make excuses for myself people make them for me.
When I don't make excuses for myself my excuses are not good enough.
When I don't make excuses for myself I'm responsible.

When I reject abortion people use my case to argue for it.
When I reject abortion people say it was the best I could do.
When I reject abortion I am hated for past participation.
When I reject abortion it is rational.

If I ask for mercy it will come with a price.
If I ask for mercy it will not be understood.
If I ask for mercy it will not be given.
If I ask for mercy I find it true.

Is any of that plain? Does the turning screw really need more leverage? Is there another point of view I haven't considered or been subjected to?

What then?

I guess what I'm trying to say is that parents who mourn lost children, parents who regret their contribution, are being met with mainstream concern. But those of us who are stunned by the bewildering pain and regret of the abortion-related deaths of our children find no such general consideration, nor do we find a (mainstream) willing analysis of the psychic/emotional experience. We can't. For society would have to determine us mentally incompetent for mourning make-believe children or society would have to recognize real children who are being killed by their own parents because we as a nation have said it's acceptable and ingrained it as truth and freedom, good things, among our people. The former is impossible, and we will not soon find relief in waiting for the latter. Where then does our help come from?

Look and we will find a God Who hears us. Search and discover those few people who really are genuinely His. While they might not be able to bring public awareness to what we are going through, they will walk through it with us. And that is no small thing.

:: ashli 4:26 PM # ::
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Ohio recognizes Jesse Davis' 9-month-gestated fetus as a full-blown person, thank you very much.

(Shhhh, Ohio! America is sleeping.)

:: ashli 7:02 PM # ::
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For my bestest pal in the whole wide blogosphere
(you know who you are!):

:: ashli 1:26 AM # ::
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I was an abortion advocate for 25 years. I carried a sign like this poor girl (and a bumber sticker that said, "If you don't like abortion, don't have one.") Also like her, I talked the talk and refused to go deeper than "it's a woman's right," because what was under that layer was dark and ugly and I knew it. Going there would complicate the issue.

My signs, my flawed reason, my weak debate, my advocacy...none of it ever helped anyone. But it hurt a lot of people. I thought that ultimately I was helping, I really did. I thought I was fighting the good fight for a "necessary sorrow..."

When I watch this young lady I realize that she is also only trying to help, but she is wrong. How do we tell her in a way that will reach her? Or does her child have to die in an abortion too before she will catch a glimmer of the pathology of "choice." What love, what truth will rouse her from her slumber before it is too late for her or someone she knows?

:: ashli 10:12 AM # ::
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Ono! Yoko would have aborted her Beautiful Boy!













Thankfully the talented Sean Lennon was born...and on his famous dad's 35th birthday.

"Yoko Ono Tells of Last Night with Lennon

By Associated Press

LONDON - John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment after deciding he wanted to return home to see his son rather than go out for dinner, Yoko Ono said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

'We were returning from the studio, and I said: "Should we go and have dinner before we go home?" and John was saying, "No, lets go home because I want to see Sean before he goes to sleep." And it was like he wasn't sure if we would get home before he (Sean) went to sleep and he was concerned about that.'

Ono, 74, the wife of the late Beatle, made the comment on "Desert Island Discs," the British Broadcasting Corp. radio program that interviews famous people and plays their favorite songs.

She said Lennon uttered no dying words when he was shot and killed by deranged fan Mark Chapman outside their Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on Dec. 8, 1980.

Ono also said that when she became pregnant with Sean shortly after the couple reunited in 1975 following a two-year separation, she let Lennon decide whether she should have the baby or abort it.

"I thought that I should let John decide whether to keep it or not. We'd just got back together and I became pregnant very soon, and I didn't know if it was the right moment to have a child. I just didn't want to burden him with something he didn't want," Ono said.

The songs Ono played on Sunday's show included Lennon's 'Beautiful Boy' (about Sean); 'Liverpool Lou,' which was written by Scaffold, a Liverpool group that included Paul McCartney's brother, and 'Magic,' a song composed by Sean."

My mother told me she would have aborted me if it had been legal here in 1971. I believe her, because she aborted the child that came after me when it was legal in 1980. I have to say I'm glad I'm here. I wonder how Sean feels about his "brush" with abortion. Perhaps he's so immersed in the liberal world of the entertainment elite that it doesn't phase him at all. And maybe, like his dad, he's even got some aborted children himself.

What a strange world it is...when we are nonchalant about the matter of killing our children. What Ono doesn't say with clarifiers is said by the power of Sean's existence. I'm glad John said yes to Sean; I'm glad he gave him life.

:: ashli 10:22 AM # ::
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"I believe some pain cannot be healed..."

:: ashli 7:35 PM # ::
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Pro-life anthem, baby.

:: ashli 7:29 PM # ::
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:: ashli 7:06 PM # ::
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Anna Radosz: Too good for this world.

:: ashli 8:43 PM # ::
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"There is a painful emptiness for which there is no cure. Our future hope has not dulled today’s pain.

It is our belief that our God will be glorified through a truthful accounting of our experience. It will be ugly, and revealing as to our weakness. And this is precisely why we need Him."

Well said, Dad.

:: ashli 8:48 AM # ::
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This is Trisomy 18.

This is love...



Separated only by time left on earth...



I have an old friend who had a daughter with Trisomy 18. She chose late term abortion. She has no regrets. She also has no memory of kisses against the warm cheek of her living infant, no 99 days of cuddling, no memories of how she smelled, no assurance that her daughter ever knew her love, no pictures or video of her daughter alive, no birthday celebrations, no memory of what her daughter was like, no memories of bathing and dressing her child...

Eliot probably suffered some in spite of his parents' diligent efforts. My friend's daughter suffered during the late term abortion that her mother requested and paid for. And she never laid eyes on her mother's face, never felt her mommy's caress, was never held and rocked and sung to...

Eliot was only given a short time on this earth, and his parents didn't take that time away from him. He had trisomy 18. He also had the powerful love of two parents who understood that love does no harm--Trisomy 18 may, but love never does.

Thanks for your love, Mom and Dad Mooney. Thanks for your beautiful example. In the face of terrible adversity, you lived in such a way that God's love could bless you with the full richness of Eliot's life and the fondest of memories.

HT: JD (You're SO the best!)

:: ashli 2:47 PM # ::
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Jill wraps and tops with a bow a walloping smackdown for contradiction's grand wizard Rosie O'Donnell.

:: ashli 9:33 AM # ::
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This is a joke, right? Where are Ashton Kutcher and his hidden cameras?

:: ashli 12:13 AM # ::
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It would be like conducting a study on skin cancer caused by sun exposure...using newborn subjects.

:: ashli 10:24 AM # ::
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If you pray, please do so for this little boy and his mommy. They're going to court again tomorrow.

:: ashli 6:02 PM # ::
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You bettuh check yo self before you wreck someone else.

:: ashli 11:35 AM # ::
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"Feminists heralded the proliferation of abortion as a tool by which to 'empower' women and give them control over their lives and destinies. But power is being pregnant. Because it gives you control over other people's lives. Embryos and fetuses get you treated like royalty. Not only do people cede the right of way to you; not only do people in line at the ladies' room let you get in front of them; but if the man who impregnated you sticks around for just a few more months, you get to lie on the couch all day and just point to things, and they magically come to you. You just have to say, 'Honey, I think I'm craving a ---,' and the chocolate-banana-peanut-butter milkshake appears in your hand. What can be more powerful?"

HT: Jane

:: ashli 5:41 AM # ::
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Liger/ A Thousand Fuegos

Abortion 1: Bless the Pilot: Song featuring repetition of the lyric:
"Oh my God; we made a baby..."



Abortion 2


Lyrics (as best as I can tell):
"No on'es getting out of you alive
No one's getting out of you alive
No one's given any chance to try
No one's getting out of you alive
Don't worry I'll be there
and don't be so so so so scared
I'll take your fear and protect you if you let me
Don't you forget me
funny, how I hate me."

:: ashli 12:55 PM # ::
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What the FOCA?

"FOCA states that prior to legalized abortion 'an estimated 1.2 million women each year were forced to resort to illegal abortions, despite the risk of unsanitary conditions, incompetent treatment, infection, hemorrhage, disfiguration and death.'"

Hmm.

I wouldn't want to accuse the abortion industry of inflating numbers for their own gain, but I'm having trouble comprehending how a population of 200 million in 1970 could render 1.2 million illegal abortions when a population of 300 million in 2006 rendered 1.3 million legal abortions. "

:: ashli 9:05 AM # ::
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I'm one of Florida's 124. And you?

HT: Rebecca Porter

:: ashli 3:59 PM # ::
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"Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, said he intentionally misled in previous remarks about the procedure, called intact dilation and evacuation by those who believe it should remain legal and 'partial-birth abortion' by those who believe it should be outlawed, because he feared that the truth would damage the cause of abortion rights.

In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along, Mr. Fitzsimmons said. 'The abortion-rights folks know it, the anti-abortion folks know it, and so, probably does everyone else.'"

HT: A Friend

:: ashli 4:18 PM # ::
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Echobelly sings about the emotional fall-out of abortion in Bellyache. It kind of rips off How Soon Is Now, but still...



Now, someone find me the Sex Pistols "Body" music video, and I'll post it.

:: ashli 12:17 PM # ::
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"The dominant hand (right hand for a right-handed person) grabs an imaginary object from the horizontal, downturned, non-dominant '5' hand and then is thrown down and open."

Basically, act as though you're plucking something from its environment and then pretend to throw it away.
(Try adding a "splat" at the end for effect.)

Sign o' the times.

:: ashli 11:49 AM # ::
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Anna Nalick
BREATHE

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track,
we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in you hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Whoa breathe,
just breathe...

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Whoa breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout
But you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to

And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to
Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
whoa breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe,
just breathe.

HT: A Friend

:: ashli 5:54 PM # ::
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Abortion "Lite"???

You've got to be kidding me.

(And don't you love the special Sunday pricing? In honor of our Lord I suppose.)

HT: TRA

:: ashli 1:54 PM # ::
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GASP! I'm so shocked! Not.

:: ashli 9:24 AM # ::
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It won't prevent one death, you understand, but it will prevent partial birth abortion, and a lethal injection is better than having your brains sucked out. So I suppose it's some sort of triumph.

Reminder to those who feel the ruling threatens a woman's health:
Partial birth abortion has been deemed (by doctors) never medically necessary. Inductions or C-sections can be initiated, and the baby is so far along that there is a chance of survival at this point, i.e., no one has to die for Mom's health to be spared.

Could it be that certain people are angry because partial birth abortion really isn't about saving a mother's life...but about the right of a woman to kill her child any way she sees fit...as long as some portion of the child's body remains inside her own, therefore ensuring that "sweet" classification of a living human child as a non-person with all the legal protection of a wart?

:: ashli 2:44 PM # ::
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Yeah, moms like me should just "get over" the violent deaths of children.

Or perhaps, Rudy should just "get over" the presidency.

:: ashli 10:51 AM # ::
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"The Democrat version of "primacy of conscience" is simply the fulfillment of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, where human beings, in substituting their judgment for the teaching of the Church, attempt to acquire personal freedom beyond morality."

"The truth is, we don't want to surrender our will to Him, and liberals exploit that. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want Jesus, but on our own terms."

~Alisa Craddock

HT: One who should make Two Hills green tea part of daily living (you know who you are)!

:: ashli 4:37 PM # ::
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Abort Gay Babies?

:: ashli 1:25 PM # ::
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Aren't these "after abortion" cards just precious!


















Yes,
God is right there by your side,
requiring nothing of you
and holding your hand
as you kill His children.

Indeed, everyone who chooses to end the life of a growing child should be encouraged by the sweet tenderness of a Hallmark moment that reaffirms the brainwashing mantra of "you did the right thing."

As one card says:

"I think you're strong
smart, thoughtful and
caring. I believe in you
and your ability to
make the best decision.
I think you did the
right thing."

After all, killing your own gestating child is always the right thing for any reason. It's so thoughtful and caring. And there's no one smarter than the person who has consensual sex and gets pregnant when she absolutely doesn't want to be pregnant.

As long as strength means making someone else suffer the deadly consequences of your own "smart" choices, these cards will be appropriate.

:: ashli 6:56 PM # ::
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"Physicians are not obligated to, and in fact should not, reinfibulate patients who have been deinfibulated for labor and delivery. This is in keeping with ethical precepts that counsel physicians to avoid causing physical, social, and emotional harm to their patients.[29]"

So basically, it's ok for me to ask a doctor to kill my child in the second trimester, this is ethical, but it's not ok for me to ask my doctor to sew my labia shut, which is unethical.

(Amusing: Perhaps if I had been infibulated, I wouldn't have gotten the rare, pregnancy-related disease that caused me to ask an obliging doctor to kill my child in the second trimester. LOL!)

(Yeah, I said it.)

:: ashli 9:06 AM # ::
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It's coming.






















Watch the trailer.

:: ashli 7:35 AM # ::
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