Some interesting times ahead. I hope it results in misdoings being revealed and the perpetrators punished. That isn’t for sure, but something to be desired, for sure.
As Byron says, “Anticipation is also building for the release of Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz’s report on the department’s handling of the case. It is probably not a coincidence that some Obama-era intelligence figures are now pointing fingers at each other over their reliance on the so-called Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated allegations against the president compiled by a former British spy on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign.”
Things are heating up in the Middle East again with Iran becoming increasingly belligerent …
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1130316270216179712?s=20
The abortion debate continues. One woman I have as a “friend” on Facebook has been surprisingly (to me) belligerent about the abortion question, claiming that we Christians are mean spirited for not supporting the poor mothers. While I understand and empathize with women who are facing motherhood alone, I think it is my primary duty to defend the defenseless and innocent. I don’t understand why she doesn’t realize this, and I told her so this morning. As Candace points out, adoption and foster care are two options for these mothers.
Let’s hope that Joe Crowley and Ruth Papazian are right about AOC! Go Ruth!
These are all really good questions, and ones that should be asked, especially because some of these people engage in demonization of the rich (I’m looking at you, Bernie.)
Yes, this is shocking, but also just gross.
After all of the disgusting, infuriating and disappointing news of the day, I prefer to end these posts with something uplifting. I love Charlie’s morning prayers.
Have a lovely day!
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I hope this comes out right. Last night, I watched Call the Midwife and the subject of abortion and how pregnancy and abortion affected women back then was a large part of the show. At the time I was watching it, my thoughts were “here we go again, liberals pushing abortion.” As I read that tweet this morning, something dawned on me that I hadn’t thought of before. Back then, women were ostracized and condemned for having had sex before marriage and it was something very hard, or impossible to live down. Women had baby after baby when they were married. The birth control pill was new at the time, and even if other contraceptives were used, they didn’t always work. At the time, I could actually see why women might want abortion to be available.
However, it is today, a different time. There is not the stigma there once was for an unwed mother. There are plenty of birth control choices. And, adoption really is an option. There really should be less need for abortions. So, the arguments for it that existed back in the 50’s and early 60’s don’t carry as much weight as they did then. I think the pro-abortionists are just out of their ever-lovin minds and evil.
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I agree with every word! I watched it too, and wasn’t sure how I felt about the episode. I know, based on my recent “discussions” on Twitter and Facebook, that a baby is a human being just as much before birth as after, that my efforts will always be to protect innocent life when given a choice, and that the baby’s life must be considered as equal to that of the mother.
One thing is for sure – even though abortion is safer than when it was illegal (although I am convinced that most abortionists were actually doctors, not grandmothers) – at least one person dies in every abortion.
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Another good video on the subject:
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Very good.
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The arguments are very strong.
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Yes.
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Sentiments seconded. Well-said, mom, thank you.
Ma Soeur and her husband tried for years to adopt – he gave her some disease he “picked up” (literally and figuratively) in Okinawa. Anyway, she was a VP at Bank of America, he was a USMC WO4. Loads of cash, married 20 years, etc etc.
There was never a baby available for them. Black, white, red, green, chartreuse, they would have taken any baby. There were none.
Had just one of those bazillion black children been born, instead of being killed in utero…
Ma Soeur passed age 51, having never known the absolute thrill of spoiling her own child, biological or otherwise. If only.
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A story I often relate is that I, myself, was pregnant prior to being married, and it was a time when abortion was illegal. I discussed it with the father of the baby, and then with my parents. It wasn’t absolutely a possibility that I would marry the father of my child. I had pretty much decided that I would carry the child to term, and possibly then give him or her for adoption. My parents said they would support whatever decision I reached.
I cannot guarantee 100% that I wouldn’t have considered abortion if it was legal, and I believe that the father would have pushed for it.
We decided on marriage, and exactly six months after our wedding our baby daughter was born. Five years later, we divorced, and I was effectively a single mother.
Why am I telling this story? Because I never remarried and never had another child (was never again pregnant, just to be perfectly clear.) Now I am an old woman. My parents are dead. All of my siblings are dead. Where would I be if I did not have my wonderful daughter and my two equally wonderful grandsons? ADD: I had every intention of remarrying and having more children. While the opportunity to marry occurred a couple of times, I didn’t love the men in question. I did in time fall in love, but it wasn’t feasible to marry and have his children, and by that time I was in my late thirties and had already undergone a tubal ligation.
I don’t believe that most young women in a similar crisis situation are capable of projecting where life will take them. My life story is one that they could consider when making their own decisions. That the “easy” decision to a way out may definitely not be the best one.
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Stella:
Thank you for sharing your story with us. You are a special Lady! God bless you and your family. 🙂
My great grand-daughter presented me with a precious great-great grand-daughter 4 years ago. (I am 78) She did not marry the baby’s father. She has been a wonderful mother,and has been engaged to a very responsible young man for a year. She will graduate from nursing school in August and get pinned in September. Their will get married in March.
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Another success story! Congratulations to her and to you!
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Within my family one grandmother, two aunts and one niece have had abortions. In my grandmother’s day they held old-fashioned theories about when life began. I’m not sure of the reason for her abortion but I think it was because she had to have major surgery and it was impossible to have while pregnant. Her abortion was done by the family doctor.
One aunt (born in 1925) was a very spoiled and beautiful young woman of 16 who dated unsuitable men, drank and smoked, much to her parents’ alarm. She became pregnant after a casual encounter and had no interest in marrying the man. So again, the family doctor performed the abortion.
The other aunt (born in 1922) was married but, unfortunately, was in a mental institution. The institution doctor performed the abortion after family consultation decided her mental health would be adversely affected by carrying and birthing a child.
My niece (born 1970) is an alcoholic. One night when partying heavily, she was raped and only vaguely remembers the man. Abortion was legal; so she availed herself of the procedure which was performed by a doctor.
So those who claim that when abortions were illegal, they were performed by non-medically trained abortionists in dirty back rooms, my family’s experience has been the opposite. Knowing of the abortions has not diminished my love for any of these dear women. I’m not their judge, and have my own sins to be concerned about.
Without doubt, however, God creates life and humans are His instruments for keeping the race going. Abortion is about removing innocent individual human lives from this earth, and that’s both terribly sad and awful.
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.” – St. Augustine
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Lordy! My Mom was a Tart! She had 10 kids by at least 5 men! I kid you not.
I thought she had been married 10 times to 10 different men, but when she was 79, she told me it was more like 15!
Growing up, I lived in at least 35 states, went to a new school very often and learned a lot at a young age about how to look out for myself (and my younger siblings).
I vowed not to ever have kids, but my first hubby took 3 years to talk me into it. By the time I got pregnant, I really wanted a baby! She was perfect, and so is my GD!
I think I need to write a book…
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Sounds like you turned out really well anyway. 🙂
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I’ve turned out to be the white sheep of the family, lol!
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Sounds like you turned out great, and your mom gave you and your siblings life, so there is that!
Some women marry and marry, and I can’t imagine how they find so many men they want to share their life with, even if it is just for a little while. My best friend has been married four times and divorced three times. Three of the four husbands are now deceased, including the last one (married five years ago). She also lived with a couple of men that she didn’t marry. She only had children with her first husband, though.
I love her dearly, but we are not at all alike!
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Lucille, thanks for confirming what I believe – that most abortionists were doctors, either because they believed that abortion should be allowed in certain cases, or for the money, or both. There have been abortions in my own family too. I know specifically of two of them – one legal and one illegal. I don’t judge others for what they have done, but I try to change minds and I don’t condone it.
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I have a lot of young people in my life. One young woman in particular got pregnant at 17 and had her baby. She is by most standards not the most nurturing mom. But. She lives with her parents and her now 4 year old son and they, her dad in particular do fill in the slack.
She is open to suggestions though recently she told her son she was going to whoop his ass and an elderly lady told her “Don’t you dare lay a finger on that child.” The young woman turned to the lady and said “Lady I’ll beat your ass too.”
I have know her for 3 years and never seen he strike her boy, she is all mouth, she is wild but she loves her son. Sometimes I look at her and I say “I just want to kiss you for not chopping your boy up and throwing him away.” “Thank you.”
She has a steady job. She is mystified by much of motherhood and certainly a product of her generation, and yet she did not kill her son and I love her so much for that that it makes me weep.
I know others who made another decision it breaks my heart, not only for their babies, but for the moms themselves.
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I believe the Lord has given us a man in Donald Trump with all those qualities Charlie Daniels asks for in his prayer.
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