"Children are a gift from the Lord: they are a reward from Him".
- Psalm 127:3
If it were a Hollywood movie, in the eyes of the Feminists, Sarah Palin would be celebrated as a once-in-a-lifetime heroine who possesses the survival instincts of Lara Croft in the wild, who could sit as comfortably on a Harley or a snowmachine as she would on a chair chatting it up with Oprah. She could fell a caribou in a single shot and deftly dress a moose as she could cuttingly slash the budget of the State of Alaska. She is intelligent, strong and independent who refudiates the rules of politics and plays by her own rules. A fit mother of five who plays down her good looks with a frumpy up-do, she was as tough as a nail fighting the oil companies in Alaska as she was as sweet as any mother could be holding and smiling at her son, Trig, who was born with Down Syndrome.
That's the part when the Feminists turned off the movie and dropped all the pretense of the bonds that strong women share. Today, feminism equals abortion rights. Sarah Palin knew that her baby had Down syndrome before he was born. She should have done what 90% of pregnant mothers given a Down syndrome diagnosis and not bring the baby to life.
Sarah Palin has always been a vocal pro-life proponent and his son, Trig, is a living proof that she walks the walk. To pro-choice feminists, being pro-life is an unforgivable offense. To the pro-abortion advocates, there is only one choice - abortion. They insist on it.
By the fifth week of pregnancy, a fetus' heart starts to form and can be detected by an ultrasound. By week 6, it starts to pump blood. To the pro-choice advocates, a pulsating heart does not mean anything. Unless a being is walking and breathing out in this world, it cannot be called a person, thus has no right, legally or otherwise. And if it were up to then-Senator Barack Obama, even if a fetus somehow managed to show signs of life after an unsuccessful abortion (thereby making it a "born alive infant"), it still should NOT be entitled to legal protection. In defending his opposition to "Born Alive" bill in the Illinois legistature, Sen. Obama declared that such bill would be nothing but a backdoor attack to women's legal rights to abortion.
When a pregnant woman goes to a Lamaze class, sometimes she is shown a film of an actual childbirth (a natural childbirth or caesarian, or both) to give her confidence when the big moment comes. If the same mother goes to an abortion clinic, one wonders if the doctor would also show her films of different methods of abortion to boost her confidence to carry on with the procedure. Would it be done through dilation of the uterus, suction aspiration, dilation and curretage, dilation and evacuation, saline injection, prostaglandin chemical or hysterotomy section or partial-birth?
Americans accept the legal fact that abortion is allowed in the case of rape or incest or when the mother's health is in danger. Pro-choice advocates claim that restricting abortion would push helpless pregnant women back to the dark alleys where unlicensed doctors would perform the procedure. This narrative just does not make sense because if a woman has been raped or the pregnancy puts her health in danger, the very place where she needs to be seen is a proper hospital where she could get all the psychological and medical help that she needs, not in the back alleys with some quack doctor who will disappear after he takes her money.
After the abortion is done and the disintegrated fetus is collected in a bag or a pan, one wonders what happens to it. Does it end up in a dumpster or does it get buried in the ground? When our pet goldfish or pet dog dies, we give it a sad farewell, burying it, saying a prayer over it, telling our children that it will rest in peace in dog or fish heaven. It is odd that household pets get more respectful (and well-deserved, yes) goodbyes in their passing while an aborted fetus just sits in a bag.
It is ironic how some people would willingly lay down their lives for an old tree so it would not be cut down and would be allowed to live another one hundred years, or how celebrities made loud noise protesting KFC for keeping their chickens in crowded coops, or how politicians allowed communities in California to become ghost towns just to protect 2-inch fish. Yet, when it comes to a fetus in a mother's belly, a "choice" becomes its death sentence.
My family used to raise chickens when I was a young child and I have seen how a chicken journeys from its cage to a chopping block then to my dinner plate. I remember holding down a chicken by its body while a sibling chopped off its head. While still holding the fowl to let some of the blood drain out, I would feel in my hands its heart pounding fast, then slower and fainter until it beat no more. Its warm body had turned cold. It's dead.
Some people might find the chicken story too graphic. As crude as the comparison may seem, a chicken's death is nothing compared to what one can imagine a fetus being aborted goes through. One does not need to see a film of an actual abortion to know that it is a violent procedure. I doubt if there ever is one ( that would be too horrific for a tree-hugger or an animal rights advocate to watch and pro-choice groups might not allow such film to circulate in public). But I can picture in my mind a fetus being suctioned out of a woman's birth canal - limbs. hair, heart, fingernails and all. The crumbled mess of blood and flesh is stashed away in a trash bag, discarded in a dumpster along with our daily filth, dead and cold. Just like the chicken.
Abortion is a heart-rending decision that a woman in less-than-ideal circumstance might consider. It is a decision that will stay with her forever. But for those advocates who nonchalantly insist that a fetus is a mere blob of cells, I would like them to step forward, and volunteer to hold an aborted fetus' heart in the palm of their hand, watch it contract and expand until it stops pulsating completely. Then pray tell, is it life or just a mushy piece of flesh?
(Note: Parts of this article come from my earlier post titled "To be Against Abortion is a Choice, Too.")
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
To Be Against Abortion is a Choice, Too
"Thou shalt not kill." - Deuteronomy 5:17 KJV
The House of Reperesentatives recently voted to strip funding of Planned Parenthood. Hopes aren't too high, though, that the Democrat-controlled Senate would follow suit. Pro-choice vs. pro-life. Which side are you on? Abortion is one very sad issue. It is sad because caught in the midst of these debates is something that cannot defend itself - the fetus in a mother's womb. But what if the fetus could talk? What would it say? "Feel my feet kick, Mom. Someday these feet will run like the wind." "I can open my eyes in here, Mom. Do I have your eyes or Dad's?" If the mother aborts the unborn child, she'll never know the answers.
My family used to raise chickens when I was a young child and I have seen how a chicken journeys from its cage to a chopping block then to my dinner plate. I remember holding down a chicken by its body while a sibling chopped off its head. While still holding the fowl to let some of the blood drain out, I would feel in my hands its heart pounding fast, then slower and fainter until it beat no more. Its warm body had turned cold. It's dead.
Some people might find the chicken story too graphic. As crude as the comparison may seem, a chicken's death is nothing compared to what one can imagine a fetus being aborted goes through. I have never seen a film of an actual abortion. I doubt if there ever is one ( that would be too horrific for a tree-hugger or an animal rights advocate to watch and pro-choice groups might not allow such film to circulate in public - yes, they have such clout!). But I can picture in my mind a fetus being suctioned out of a woman's birth canal - limbs. hair, heart, fingernails and all. The crumbled mess of blood and flesh is stashed away in a trash bag, discarded in a dumpster along with our daily filth, dead and cold. Just like the chicken.
For those who insist that a fetus is a mere blob of cells, I would like them to step forward, and volunteer to hold an aborted fetus' heart in the palm of their hand, watch it contract and expand until it stops pulsating completely. Then tell me, is it life or just a mushy piece of flesh?
The House of Reperesentatives recently voted to strip funding of Planned Parenthood. Hopes aren't too high, though, that the Democrat-controlled Senate would follow suit. Pro-choice vs. pro-life. Which side are you on? Abortion is one very sad issue. It is sad because caught in the midst of these debates is something that cannot defend itself - the fetus in a mother's womb. But what if the fetus could talk? What would it say? "Feel my feet kick, Mom. Someday these feet will run like the wind." "I can open my eyes in here, Mom. Do I have your eyes or Dad's?" If the mother aborts the unborn child, she'll never know the answers.
A pro-lifer's stand is simple enough to state. Life begins at conception, thus an unborn fetus has a right to be born and to live. If a mother does not feel fit to raise the child (whether for reasons of health, finances or the circumstance for which the baby was conceived), there is a viable option of giving up the baby for adoption. Pro-choice advocates , on the other hand, fight for women's reproductive self-determination to decide for herself and her body and the right to have abortion. Affixing "pro-choice" to abortion cause, however, is misleading. If a woman chooses to carry through the pregnancy and gives birth to a baby, that is a woman's choice, too. Yet pro-choice supporters would fight tooth and nail any pro-lifers who would encourage a woman to not terminate the pregnancy. For the pro-abortion groups, there is only one ultimate choice - abortion.
By the fifth week of pregnancy, a fetus' heart starts to form and can be detected by an ultrasound. By week 6, it starts to pump blood. To the pro-choice advocates, a pulsating heart does not mean anything. Unless a being is walking and breathing out in this world, it cannot be called a person, thus has no right, legally or otherwise. Both sides have been debating this issue for decades but it's a debate that has only turned up dead bodies (those of abortion providers, supporters of either side or the multitudes of aborted babies).
It is quite hard to make sense when some people would willingly die for a tree, when politicians would sacrifice farmers' communities to save a 2-inch fish, or when celebrities would protest KFC's cruel treatment of chickens for keeping them in crowded coops. It is incomprehensible for people to claim that slaughtering of turkeys are too graphic yet they would have no qualms in snuffing an unborn fetus out of a woman's womb.
By the fifth week of pregnancy, a fetus' heart starts to form and can be detected by an ultrasound. By week 6, it starts to pump blood. To the pro-choice advocates, a pulsating heart does not mean anything. Unless a being is walking and breathing out in this world, it cannot be called a person, thus has no right, legally or otherwise. Both sides have been debating this issue for decades but it's a debate that has only turned up dead bodies (those of abortion providers, supporters of either side or the multitudes of aborted babies).
It is quite hard to make sense when some people would willingly die for a tree, when politicians would sacrifice farmers' communities to save a 2-inch fish, or when celebrities would protest KFC's cruel treatment of chickens for keeping them in crowded coops. It is incomprehensible for people to claim that slaughtering of turkeys are too graphic yet they would have no qualms in snuffing an unborn fetus out of a woman's womb.
My family used to raise chickens when I was a young child and I have seen how a chicken journeys from its cage to a chopping block then to my dinner plate. I remember holding down a chicken by its body while a sibling chopped off its head. While still holding the fowl to let some of the blood drain out, I would feel in my hands its heart pounding fast, then slower and fainter until it beat no more. Its warm body had turned cold. It's dead.
Some people might find the chicken story too graphic. As crude as the comparison may seem, a chicken's death is nothing compared to what one can imagine a fetus being aborted goes through. I have never seen a film of an actual abortion. I doubt if there ever is one ( that would be too horrific for a tree-hugger or an animal rights advocate to watch and pro-choice groups might not allow such film to circulate in public - yes, they have such clout!). But I can picture in my mind a fetus being suctioned out of a woman's birth canal - limbs. hair, heart, fingernails and all. The crumbled mess of blood and flesh is stashed away in a trash bag, discarded in a dumpster along with our daily filth, dead and cold. Just like the chicken.
For those who insist that a fetus is a mere blob of cells, I would like them to step forward, and volunteer to hold an aborted fetus' heart in the palm of their hand, watch it contract and expand until it stops pulsating completely. Then tell me, is it life or just a mushy piece of flesh?
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
President Obama Announces Reelection Bid
A Letter to The One from the Book of We The People
"Thou shall not punk us again".
- The American People 11:6:2012
You will surely not find that in any version of the Bible but it is in the hearts of many American voters, especially now that President Obama has officially began his reelection campaign.
I prayed for Barack Obama on November 4, 2008, the day he won the presidential election. I prayed that he would be successful even though I did not vote for him. Hillary Clinton was my horse in the race but she lost the primary. I wasn't at all fond of John McCain but I voted for the Republican ticket only because of Sarah Palin. I have never heard of the Alaska governor until after she was picked by McCain as his running mate but she had an actual record that spoke volumes. Her principles and positions on issues were quite clear and one could actually gauge how she would think and act on many given situations. That was more than enough for me. But they lost, too. This is America where we respect the sanctity of votes. We move on and we wish the new president all the best.
Fast forward to 2011, 47.6% of Americans disapprove of his job performance, only 25% of likely voters think the country is heading in the right direction.The President has not turned out to be the saviour that the media portayed him to be. Does this mean God does not listen to human prayers anymore? On the contrary. I believe God knows exactly what He's doing. THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY HAD TO HAPPEN.
Americans have to wake up, in their own time and own terms, to the changes in our country's character and long-held values, not all of them for the better. When a student can get suspended for taking Tylenol at school but the same school administrators can arrange for an abortion for a pregnant student without informing her parents, that is not right. When the life of a tree or a 2-in fish is more important than a human life, that is not right. When a president who opposes "dumb wars" orders the troops to Libya with no clear mission, no clear goal and no clear strategy, that is not right.When the union bosses have more say that the teachers and the students in schools, that is not right. When the strongest supporters and backers (unions, businesses, insurance companies) of Obamacare, whose constitutionality will very well be decided by the Supreme Court sooner than later, were issued waivers that exempt them from compliance, that is not right. When our Secretary of Treasury and the former Chairman of the country's tax-writing committee (Ways and Means) are unremorseful tax-evaders, that is not right. When a government props up a struggling, private automaker with taxpayer money to manufacture a $40,000-electric car (Volt) that Consumer Reports says "does not make a lot of sense", that is not right.Our national debt is $14 trillion, 2010 deficit is nearly $1.3 trillion. We can't spend money we do not have.
President Obama's policies have provided the jolt to the public's senses that things just aren't going right. Americans are woken up!
President Obama's team aims to spend around $1 billion for this campaign. A fresh wave of hope and change and excitement sweeps the nation. It's not coming from The One this time around but from someone else who will soon step forward to take up the mantle of true leadership and restore America's exceptionalism.Someone who has the common sense instinct, who lives by old-fashioned, time-tested conservative values and will abide by and defend the US Constitution. She is ready, willing and most able. It'll be Morning in America again.
"Thou shall not punk us again".
- The American People 11:6:2012
You will surely not find that in any version of the Bible but it is in the hearts of many American voters, especially now that President Obama has officially began his reelection campaign.
I prayed for Barack Obama on November 4, 2008, the day he won the presidential election. I prayed that he would be successful even though I did not vote for him. Hillary Clinton was my horse in the race but she lost the primary. I wasn't at all fond of John McCain but I voted for the Republican ticket only because of Sarah Palin. I have never heard of the Alaska governor until after she was picked by McCain as his running mate but she had an actual record that spoke volumes. Her principles and positions on issues were quite clear and one could actually gauge how she would think and act on many given situations. That was more than enough for me. But they lost, too. This is America where we respect the sanctity of votes. We move on and we wish the new president all the best.
Fast forward to 2011, 47.6% of Americans disapprove of his job performance, only 25% of likely voters think the country is heading in the right direction.The President has not turned out to be the saviour that the media portayed him to be. Does this mean God does not listen to human prayers anymore? On the contrary. I believe God knows exactly what He's doing. THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY HAD TO HAPPEN.
Americans have to wake up, in their own time and own terms, to the changes in our country's character and long-held values, not all of them for the better. When a student can get suspended for taking Tylenol at school but the same school administrators can arrange for an abortion for a pregnant student without informing her parents, that is not right. When the life of a tree or a 2-in fish is more important than a human life, that is not right. When a president who opposes "dumb wars" orders the troops to Libya with no clear mission, no clear goal and no clear strategy, that is not right.When the union bosses have more say that the teachers and the students in schools, that is not right. When the strongest supporters and backers (unions, businesses, insurance companies) of Obamacare, whose constitutionality will very well be decided by the Supreme Court sooner than later, were issued waivers that exempt them from compliance, that is not right. When our Secretary of Treasury and the former Chairman of the country's tax-writing committee (Ways and Means) are unremorseful tax-evaders, that is not right. When a government props up a struggling, private automaker with taxpayer money to manufacture a $40,000-electric car (Volt) that Consumer Reports says "does not make a lot of sense", that is not right.Our national debt is $14 trillion, 2010 deficit is nearly $1.3 trillion. We can't spend money we do not have.
President Obama's policies have provided the jolt to the public's senses that things just aren't going right. Americans are woken up!
President Obama's team aims to spend around $1 billion for this campaign. A fresh wave of hope and change and excitement sweeps the nation. It's not coming from The One this time around but from someone else who will soon step forward to take up the mantle of true leadership and restore America's exceptionalism.Someone who has the common sense instinct, who lives by old-fashioned, time-tested conservative values and will abide by and defend the US Constitution. She is ready, willing and most able. It'll be Morning in America again.
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