Life Issues

Planned Parenthood is barbaric.  Dana, newly divorced and pregnant with another relationship, found out she was expecting triplets.  At first she planned to have the babies, but fear began to set it.  Alone and with no help she went to Planned Parenthood which used this fear against her and the babies.  Inside Dana hoped just one person would encourage her to keep the babies but they didn’t.  Dana underwent a two-hour dismemberment abortion – yes dismemberment – but there were complications.  They left pieces of the babies behind which jeopardized her life and fertility.  Dana was haunted by what she’d done but there was no going back.  Sadly, her story isn’t unique.  Now she helps mothers make life-affirming choices.  Choices both they and their babies can live with.

Sometimes it takes so little to save a baby from abortion.  Nobody understands this better than the faithful pro-lifers who hold prayerful vigils outside abortion centers.  Instinctively many mothers and fathers of unborn babies understand abortion’s wrong.  But often they need a little nudge to convince them.  Often they pray for a sign to let them know abortion isn’t the answer.  That simple message was given to a couple going into an Illinois Planned Parenthood mega-abortion facility.  Mary called out to the woman but was ignored.  Later the couple stopped their car to tell Mary their baby was alive but they were afraid to have the child.  Mary assured and showed them they had help facing this pregnancy.  The father smile at her and said, “We will have this baby!”

There are those who generously give of their time in front of abortion centers.  They pray and offer support to pregnant women going in for abortions.  Sometimes young couples see the people praying and holding signs and decide right there to give their babies life.  In Florida a woman walked up to sidewalk counselors, looked them straight in the eyes and with tears rolling down her cheeks shared her story.  Fifteen years before she came to that center for an abortion.  That’s when she saw the people praying.  Today her son is fifteen and in joy filled, glowing terms she shared how well he was doing in school and sports.  Now imagine the many women or couples who witnessed their presence and changed their minds about abortion.  Prayerfully consider joining their living witness.

Advocates of abortion said the reversal of Roe v Wade would be bad for women’s health.  They claimed more women would die.  Countless media outlets said the reversal of Roe would harm women’s health – that women would die.  The opposite happened.  Roe’s demise enabled several states to protect the lives of unborn babies with pro-life legislation.  Between twenty twenty-two and twenty twenty-three, maternal mortality dropped by nearly seventeen percent.  Sadly, but not unexpectedly, the media have downplayed this positive development.  Make no mistake, pro-life laws not only protect the lives of unborn babies, they also save the lives and improve the health of their mothers.  We must move forward passing more pro-life legislation.  It’s the pro-woman thing to do.

Here’s something most women listening to my voice can easily relate to.  Research from the Institute for Family Studies found conservative women, including those who are Christian pro-lifers, are significantly happier and more satisfied with life compared to their liberal counterparts.  Liberal women are two or three times more likely to feel dissatisfied with their lives.  One of the researchers, Brad Wilcox, believes their happiness results from marriage and religion.  He said, “Being married, having a family, is … a source of enormous meaning and purpose.”  Another researcher, Zach Goldberg found while analyzing Pew data found white liberal women reported mental health condition more than any other group.  Women are happier when following God’s design for life.  No surprise there.

In twenty twenty-three Canada euthanized enough people to populate a small Canadian town, over fifteen thousand.  Of those killed two hundred forty one had dementia.  Over six hundred patients were not terminal but fell under Track Two, for example loneliness.  The government responds in two ways to Track Two.  When they’re lonely but otherwise healthy they get support or prevention.  But if they have a disability, “we respond with an offer for MAID.”  That’s medical aid in dying.  The increase in euthanasia deaths of non-terminal patients was nearly twice the increase of euthanasia deaths of terminal patients.  A mother of four was denied pain meds, chemo and oxygen but was offered MAID.  She was forced to enter hospice so she could at least get pain meds.  This isn’t medicine.  It’s barbaric.

Here’s a praise report.  Virginia Circuit Court Judge Dontae Bugg overturned an outrageous lower decision.  A divorced couple were fighting over two frozen embryos.  The former wife wanted to implant them and the ex-husband said no.  The previous judge rejected the woman’s efforts to save her children, citing a pre-Civil War law under Virginia’s partition statute, calling the embryos “goods or chattels.”  Judge Bugg wrote, “The Court is not persuaded the ‘goods or chattels’ include human embryos.”  He added, “The embryos are as unique as any two people that may be selected from the population.”    Finally, a sound court decision based on solid science and medical fact.  The judge gets it.  These are unique human beings from the moment of fertilization.  Lt’s pray other courts follow.

As always, my role isn’t to support or oppose any political party but simply report on events. Pollsters say there’s a seismic shift in the way Catholics are voting. Normally Democrat voters, but that appears to be changing in large part due to abortion. The Democrat Party is now viewed as the pro-abortion party, with the Republican Party largely opposing it. Catholic voters have taken notice and are voting accordingly. Political analyst Steve Cortes points to the recent election. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have huge Catholic populations. And all three battleground states supported Donald Trump. Consistent polling shows this trend is nationwide. The pro-life movement has long advocated single issue voting regardless of party. It appears American voters are listening.

Pro-life Attorney General, Andrew Bailey won a significant victory in the state appeals court. Planned Parenthood was caught on an undercover video bragging about faking doctors’ notes to get young girls out of school, then whisked across the state line for a secret abortion and back to class without the parents finding out. The Attorney General sued Planned Parenthood to get details but they claimed the newly passed radical state referendum protected their illegal activities. The Court of Appeals for the Western District said no. The referendum had vague wording yet legalized abortion until birth. The Court ruling was a very positive development that should put the fear of God into the abortion giant. Let’s pray justice prevails big time against the evil forces of death.

Nancy and Jay Harmon from St. Peter, Minnesota had been fostering three sisters and wanted to adopt them.  For two years these girls had suffered abuse from their biological parents.  It’s hard keeping siblings together, must less three.  Even so, Nancy and Jay were told they weren’t “the right fit” for the girls because of their Chirstian faith.  This couple made the bizarre, dangerous, and radical claim there were only two genders.  Their crime was not towing the line of the radical Left, and the seething state officials were going to make them pay for it.  Even at the cost of the three vulnerable sisters and their new family.  The Harmons had just enough on their side to make the officials back off.  But sadly, many others aren’t so fortunate.