Life, Unborn

On the very sad anniversary of Roe V. Wade, I pray for those whose lives have been destroyed by abortion - physically and psychologically.

Continuing to use my freedom of speech...

One thing I have learned during this election, everyone is and should be entitled to their freedom of speech. This is the beauty and gift of being American. This is one thing I am most grateful for to those who give their lives for our country. The freedom of speech is a glorious thing.

Over the past months I have read and shared emails with friends and family of various opinions. I have heard many sides of many stories. While we can all disagree about opinion, we should all respect each others freedom to express opinion. Twice, my McCain/Palin signs were stolen in the week prior to the election. This upset me enough to replace it with a sign "coward's stole my McCain/Palin sign." I am not proud of using the word coward, it was not the most charitable word to use, though I do believe it fits the role of someone who takes that freedom from me.

With that said, in our America today, we have so many new ways, and forums to express our opinions publicly. I am sure everyone received emails from friends and family expressing election opinions. As I am demonstrating now, we have personal blogs. And like never before, people are connecting and expressing opinions with Facebook, a social networking site.

All this freedom of speech has allowed the flame of my pro-life passion to be reignited. While I was never a "closet" pro-life activist, today we have even greater abilities to make our causes/beliefs known. All I can do is pray these discussions allow people to listen and hear Truth. This does not mean find your own personal truth...but find the objective, unchanging Truth is the Truth is the Truth.

One of these Truths: Human Life Begins at Conception. This is not an opinion, this is not a religious belief. This is an objective, unchanging, scientifically proven Truth. Another Truth, abortion kills the life of a human child. And...as our new president-elect has stated...regardless of your position on abortion, we should all agree on reducing the number of unplanned pregnancies (supposedly, therefore reducing the number of abortions).

President-elect Obama has vowed to support a very dangerous and scary bill, The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). In his words, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." -- Senator Barack Obama, speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007

"If passed into law, FOCA will impose upon the entire country an abortion regime far worse than anything brought on by Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. And the current level of 1.1 million abortions a year will go up, not down." USCCB

Cardinal Justin Rigali recently wrote the following: "there is one thing absolutely everyone should agree on: We can't reduce abortions by promoting abortion. We cannot reduce abortions by invalidating the very laws that have been shown to reduce abortions. We cannot reduce abortions by insisting that every program supporting women in childbirth and child care must also support abortion. No one who sponsors or supports legislation like FOCA can credibly claim to be part of a good-faith discussion on how to reduce abortions."

Please join me in praying and petitioning your representatives and senators:
Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard to contact the offices of
your Representative and two Senators: 202.224.3121.
Urge them to oppose FOCA

Go to http://www.nchla.org/issues.asp?ID=50 for more info.

Why we vote pro-life

I am sure many of our blog readers are of like mind. Some are not. Although I have always been adamantly pro-life (since I understood abortion in high school), having our miracle has taken it to a new level. I can't even fathom how anyone could allow abortion to occur. Women (or girls) that choose abortion, often make that choice because they feel they have no other choice. Not only am I adamantly against abortion, I try to help women (and men) know and understand they have a choice...a choice for life. And if they have had an abortion in the past, I try to help them understand forgiveness is available through the grace Christ.

Now...to those in government that choose abortion for our country, there is no excuse. And there is no excuse to those who elect them into office. Have these elected officials NOT seen the pictures of aborted babies? Of course they have. Yet they choose to allow this procedure which kills 4,000 innocent babies every day in the US. Abortion is far worse than any holocaust, any genocide, any war the world has ever seen.

I watched a YouTube video yesterday. Paul and I were both in tears. I hope you will take 5 minutes to watch this video. I met Jill Stanek when I worked at Priests for Life. God bless her for speaking out against the atrocity of born-alive abortions. Senator Obama has voted 3 times against a bill that would squelch this practice. Regardless of his "personal views" on abortion, he is no friend to the unborn, or those who claim to be pro-life. How can we find middle ground when he is in favor of letting babies die cold, on a table. I was very close to throwing up watching the discussion on abortion in the last debate.

I thank God every second of every day for the gift of H. My heart hurts for those that have made the choice of abortion....and I pray they find forgiveness. But for those that make the choice to allow abortion to continue, and those that elect them into office - God have mercy.

H's First March for Life

Awake for a few minutes to pose in front of the Washington Monument









H and 3 Fathers :)









Made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and still asleep