Reclaiming Our Children

A 1st time PA Perspective of the March

Another great post over at "Post Abortion Journey...walk with me". This time on the March for Life...last night I did a training for Pastors in Harlem where I was asked about graphic images...this post at "PA Journey" shows again what I have been trying to say...but don't just read what I have here, go to the blog and read about her total experience...

 

"f I do anything with my story, I hope one day to convince someone that those kind of pictures aren't necessary - maybe they serve some purpose in convincing somebody what abortion really is - but not in that time or that place were they in any way necessary.  That display was followed up by another huge display running almost a full block - same thing - graphic, ugly, pictures.  I don't need the reminder of what happened to my baby.  Just when I thought I was about to lose it and possibly be physically sick... I felt a little tug at my heart saying, "It's okay, it's not about all that."

And you know what, it isn't about all that.  I started thinking about my journey as I marched in that sea of people.  That maybe my journey doesn't need to be about death any more, at least not in that kind of ugly, gruesome, graphic way.  I'm guilty of looking stuff up online just to torture myself.  I read the radical message forums with wing nut bible thumpers that condemn me to hell despite anything I've done in redemption for my sin.  It's as if I'm tempting myself and my faith just to see how strong I really am.

These huge displays on the March were one blip of negative in an ocean of positivity of love and joy and laughter and singing and music." 

http://postabortionwalk.blogspot.com/2012/01/roe-v-wade-joy-v-sorrow.html

 

Unburden

A great article by my friend Annie Banno..it is a reprint from 2003 but totally holds true. Miss you Annie and all your great posts!

http://afterabortion.blogspot.com/2012/01/aching-to-unburden-but-wondering-how.html

 

Do have to get her to update Entering Canaan info etc though :)

We're your...

Jill Stanek's blog has a contest going on in responce to the new Planned Parenthood ads..I bet a lot fo you can think of a bumper sticker....

 

Here is mine

We're your

Mourning after

 

 

No friend of Mine

I have to admit, I got pretty angry when I looked at the new ad campaign put out by Planned Parenthood in Burlington, Vermont. Described as “a little bit cheeky and irreverent”, PP plans to have these new ads on buses, Facebook, web pages and newspapers, calling them “eye catching messaging that would resonate with young people.”

Unfortunately, they are probably right.  Innocent young people probably will get caught up in what they believe to be an organization that is on their side. So many of us fell for that ourselves before our abortions.

Among the “cheeky” phrases are, “We’re your Sexual Experience”, “We’re Your Friends with Benefits”, and, “We’re your Morning After”, all followed by endorsements for their supposed “health care “ .

In addition to the ads PP has made some new wall art, “We All Do It”, “Sex Happens” , “Good Morning After”. They describe them as “sex positive” . In reality however, casual sex which is promoted like an extracurricular activity is most often very far from positive and leads to finding out  “We’re your Mourning after”, a fact they totally ignore.

The mourning of self respect, the mourning of contracting STD’s, the mourning of abortion,sometimes the mournin g of not being able to have future children..I can go on and on. Doing this work for so many years has brought so many young women to us who found out way too late that PP doe snothing but exploit and make money off of them.

And, as if that were not enough, I also found out that they have purchased part ofg a building in NY which will be their new National Headquarters . No surprise really, with Bloomberg( whoprovided $15,000,000 in bond funding for renovations)and the City Council their advocates, I am sure they feel right at home. Sadly, although they spent 34.8 million fo rth ebuilding, somehow we still are giving them our tax dollars.

Thank God for my faith, which assures me the battle has already been won, even tough we are called to fight the good fight.

Hopefully,  these developments will wake up the general public and all this will come back to bite them...I mean really, "We're your friends with Benefits" REALLY?

Afternoon of Remembrance

Our Prayer Service got a shout out in this National Catholic register article

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/national-march-for-life-2012-events-focus-on-the-unborn/

Next service..Saturday Jan 28th

Providence, RI - Jan 28, Carol Owen  [email protected]

How abortion changed my life

How abortion changed my life

abortion, planned parenthood, pro choice, pro life, roe vs wade

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Votes

Abortion. Most people don’t really like to talk about it because it is a controversial subject. It often makes people feel uncomfortable to share their views and convictions about it. I am uncomfortable writing about it. Honestly, I really struggled with whether or not to even write this article. It is painful and deeply personal. The more I thought and prayed however, I felt compelled to write about this subject on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade. I share this with the hope of helping someone else avoid the same terrible decision I made many years ago and with the hope of being a voice of truth and honesty to a society that it is, in my opinion, very deceived about this issue.

To begin with, I haven’t always felt this way about abortion. I was probably like the majority of teenagers growing up in the 1980′s. I had no religious upbringing. We didn’t go to church and we didn’t discuss God or religious topics in our home. This didn’t bother me or concern me. And I liked it that way.

My parents divorced when I was 16. This simply allowed for me to get more involved in the party scene that I was already a part of in high school. I really had no regrets and felt no remorse for any of the really stupid things I was doing as a teenager. I was having fun and enjoying life. It was during this time I began to date a girl.

On a life changing day when I was 18, she called me and told me she was pregnant. I was the father. I was shocked and numb. I wasn’t ready to be a father. I didn’t even have a job. After discussing it we decided to have an abortion. At that time I didn’t see anything wrong with abortion. After all it was legal and it was just a medical procedure like any other I thought. I assumed it was kind of like having your appendix removed. That is what society had taught me.

I had to borrow the money from a friend to pay for the abortion which I believe was a couple of hundred dollars at that time. I took her to the abortion clinic and waited in the waiting room until the “procedure” was finished. After the doctor aborted the baby, I drove her back home. We did all of this without either of our parents awareness.

the rest: http://rodneyhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/how-abortion-changed-my-life/

Infinite Grace

 

a beautiful video from a beautiful post abortion blog...check it out here:

http://postabortionwalk.blogspot.com

thank you Sarah!

 

A Man's Testimony

The curse of Adam’s silence - a MAN’s post-abortion testimony

by Matt Clinger

January 20, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In the beginning, Adam and Eve were content in the garden. The serpent came to Eve and convinced her that eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would actually be beneficial.  His lies were so convincing that Eve ate of that tree as Adam stood by silentlywatching. I strongly believe that the curse of Adam’s silence that we see in the Garden of Eden is destroying entire generations today through abortion.

As a child, I looked up to celebrities. I wanted the attention, the fame, and the money. I was introduced to pornography at the age of 8 and became sexually active at 14.  I began a path of destruction with my sights set on becoming a professional athlete.  After flunking out of college on a baseball scholarship, I was approached with the opportunity of moving to Orlando to be in a new “boy band.” Boy bands were all the rage then with the success of NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, and girls worshipped the ground these young men walked on. It was exactly what I had once wanted from sports.

the rest i s here: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-curse-of-adams-silence-a-mans-post-abortion-testimony

Julia Halcomb

Julia Halcomb, former fiance of Steven Tyler will be giving her testimony at the Silent No More event at the MArch for Life in front of the Supreme Court in DC today. If you cannot watch it on TV, here are some videos ....pray for her and all the other women and men giving testimony .

http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/about-us/spokespersons.aspx

 

Abortion remains controversial

Please keep all in prayer at the March for Life, especially those giving testimony with Silent No More.

Here is a letter I had inthe Journal News yesterday..of course, it is edited, but at least they printed it, which is more than I can say for all the letters I have sent to the NY Times.

Abortion remains controversial

Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade ruling, legalizing abortion. After nearly 40 years, it remains controversial. Many aspects of the abortion issue are never really brought to the public’s attention or addressed by mainstream media.

The number of post-abortive women speaking out against abortion grows. Women have found the truth to be anything but what they were told; once healed from the trauma and able to move past their guilt and shame, they often speak out in groups like Silent No More or Operation Outcry.

Unfortunately, they’re never given a very big platform to voice what abortion did to their lives, but the number of post-abortive people leading the March for Life in Washington, D.C., grows each year. Recently, the number of men speaking out and seeking healing has also grown.

Here is the rest:

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120122/OPINION/301220039/Abortion-remains-controversial