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

:: Saturday, October 27, 2007 ::

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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