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Different responses to adoption Month

Girl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54:10 +0000

I wrote an earlier post about my opinion of national adoption month and I also posted an article written by another birth mom. There are so many different views though of adoption and therefore of adoption month also. These are just a few below. The first article below references my blog post on adoption day, that’s how I came across it.

Happy National Adoption Week!

or something.

In the UK this week is National Adoption Week and in America there’s a whole month of it

And pretty much all of it is aimed at prospective adoptive parents about how rewarding adoption is, how it gives unwanted children a chance, blah, blah, blah

and a lot of adoptive parents or prospective adoptive parents are talking about it and even first mothers

I celebrate and promote everything adoption related just because I love the act of adoption in general and what it represents.

Adoption truly is a blessing in so many lives!

Adoption is a wonderful thing.

but something conspicuously absent is adoptees voices or feelings in this

well for some of us adoption isn’t a wonderfull thing to be celebrated or encouraged, lots of adoptees do not see adoption as a good thing, as something to be happy about. Its painful, confusing, identity annihilating. we were not something to provide adults with a sense of purpose. We were not something to be “saved” (and then more often than not be forced to be “grateful” about being “saved) And we do talk about this. There are lots of us blogging about our lives, our experinces, but we dont get listened to, we get dismissed by prospective adoptive parents, by adoptive parents, by agencies and by people who have nothing to do with adoption because the societies we live in are so invested in the lie that adoption is a win/win/win situation for everybody involved when usualy two of the three parts of that triangle loose something irreplaceable.

And I’m not just talking about adoptees who had abusive or bad adoptive parents, while we do exist and our voices are important, there are many adoptees whose adoptive parents were good people. but that doesn’t negate the adoptees sense of greif and loss

For some of us this should be a time for grieving not celebrating.

and because it is important to me that the voice of adoptees get heard this week/ month I’m linking to a couple of posts by other adoptees

Peaches Post the Living Doll Talks about her personal experience of how being an adoptee can feel

and Possums post Bitter, Angry and Ungrateful Adoptee writes about how important it is that adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents listen to us so the next generation of adoptees are better understood than wee were

I like this one better….

National Adoption Month

November is National Adoption Month. Just wanted to let you know! I have a very tender spot in my heart for adoption. I think Birth Moms are the most incredible women! There are not many people in this world that have more unconditional love and courage than Birth Moms! So, if you know anyone who has been or will be affected by adoption, give them your love and support. Adoption truly is a blessing in so many lives!

40 Days for Life

Girl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:32:35 +0000

more to come soon…..

Spring 2009 nationwide campaign

Dreams really are meaningful!

Girl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:35:58 +0000

This is the coolest story! Even if you don’t agree with me on abortion, you must admit this would make you think twice too. Dreams are meaningful alright, and it’s amazing how God can work in people through them! And to think, this man is forgiven of all his sins (he converted, so I assume he believes now) if he accepts God as his Savior and asks for forgiveness! that just makes me think about all the woman out their suffering post-abortion, from guilt, depression, or anything. I hope they would look at this and notice if God can forgive a man who performed abortions for 26 years, he can surely forgive you. I know it’s easier said than done, but just give it up to God and start using your experience (like this man) for good. Be a Martha, Mary, or Lazarus…but don’t let the guilt get the best of you! The devil hates it when we turn these things around on him, and use them to proclaim God’s glory.

I’m sure I’ll get a few neg comments in response to my views here, but it’s my blog and I have the freedom to choose what I want! Side-note: That’s a real choice! The freedom of “choice” act and claim for abortion, is a statement that makes no sense. To say that the issue is not about abortion, but choice, is to say that what’s being chosen is irrelevant. That is clearly illogical because all choices are not equal. Choosing whether to buy a new car is very different than choosing whether to produce child pornography, and the morality of those choices is not affected by the eventual decision. But the pro-choice position is that abortion becomes acceptable simply by the act of choosing to do it! That is not the Freedom of choice, I think, our Founding Fathers were referring too! Sorry got sidetracked, again! Just read the great story below…

Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist

MADRID, November 13, 2008 (CNA) - The Spanish daily “La Razon” has published an article on the pro-life conversion of a former “champion of abortion.” Stojan Adasevic, who performed 48,000 abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, is now the most important pro-life leader in Serbia, after spending 26 years as the most renowned abortion doctor in the country.

“The medical textbooks of the Communist regime said abortion was simply the removal of a blob of tissue,” the newspaper reported. “Ultrasounds allowing the fetus to be seen did not arrive until the 80s, but they did not change his opinion. Nevertheless, he began to have nightmares.”

In describing his conversion, Adasevic said he “dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear. A man dressed in a black and white habit stared at him in silence. The dream was repeated each night and he would wake up in a cold sweat. One night he asked the man in black and white who he was. ‘My name is Thomas Aquinas,’ the man in his dream responded. Adasevic, educated in communist schools, had never heard of the Dominican genius saint. He didn’t recognize the name.”

“Why don’t you ask me who these children are?” St. Thomas asked Adasevic in his dream.

“They are the ones you killed with your abortions,” the Dominican saint told him.

“Adasevic awoke in amazement and decided not to perform any more abortions,” the article stated.

“That same day a cousin came to the hospital with his four months-pregnant girlfriend, who wanted to get her ninth abortion - something quite frequent in the countries of the Soviet bloc. The doctor agreed. Instead of removing the fetus piece by piece, he decided to chop it up and remove it as a mass. However, the baby’s heart came out still beating. Adasevic realized then that he had killed a human being,”

After this experience, Adasevic “told the hospital he would no longer perform abortions. Never before had a doctor in Communist Yugoslavia refused to do so. They cut his salary in half, fired his daughter from her job, and did not allow his son to enter the university.”

After years of pressure and on the verge of giving up, he had another dream about St. Thomas.

“You are my good friend, keep going,” the man in black and white told him. “Adasevic became involved in the pro-life movement and was able to get Yugoslav television to air the film ‘The Silent Scream,’ by Doctor Bernard Nathanson, two times.”

Adasevic has told his story in magazines and newspapers throughout Eastern Europe. He has returned to the Orthodox faith of his childhood and has studied the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

“Influenced by Aristotle, Thomas wrote that human life begins forty days after fertilization,” Adasevic wrote in one article. Scientific advancements since Thomas’ time, however, have revealed that human life begins at the moment of conception. La Razon commented that Adasevic “suggests that perhaps the saint wanted to make amends for that error.” Today the Serbian doctor continues to fight for the lives of the unborn.

(Reprinted with permission from the Catholic News Agency)

See the Catholic News Agency Online here:
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com

Each of us has our place at the table

Girl — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:33:55 +0000

by Max Lucado

If God has called you to be a Martha, then serve! Remind the rest of us that there is evangelism in feeding the poor and there is worship in nursing the sick.

If God has called you to be a Mary, then worship! Remind the rest of us that we don’t have to be busy to be holy. Urge us with your example to put down our clipboards and megaphones and be quiet in worship.

If God has called you to be a Lazarus, then testify. Remind the rest of us that we, too, have a story to tell. We, too, have neighbors who are lost. We, too, have died and been resurrected.

Each of us has our place at the table.

Except one. There was one at Martha’s house who didn’t find his place. Though he had been near Jesus longer than any of the others, he was furthest in his faith. His name was Judas. He was a thief. When Mary poured the perfume he feigned spirituality. “The perfume could have been sold and given to the poor,” he said. But Jesus knew Judas’s heart, and Jesus defended Mary’s worship. Years later, John, too, knew Judas’s heart, and John explained that Judas was a thief (John 12:6). And all these years he had been dipping his hand in the treasury. The reason he wanted the perfume to be sold and the money put in the treasury was so that he could get his hands on it.

What a sad ending to a beautiful story. But what an appropriate ending. For in every church there are those like Martha who take time to serve. There are those like Mary who take time to worship. There are those like Lazarus who take time to testify.

And there are those like Judas who take, take, take, and never give in return. Are you a Judas? I ask the question carefully, yet honestly. Are you near Christ but far from his heart? Are you at the dinner with a sour soul? Are you always criticizing the gifts of others yet seldom, if ever, giving your own? Are you benefiting from the church while never giving to it? Do others give sacrificially while you give miserly? Are you a Judas?

Do you take, take, take, and never give? If so, you are the Judas in this story.

If you are a Martha, be strengthened. God sees your service.
If you are a Mary, be encouraged. God receives your worship.
If you are a Lazarus, be strong. God honors your conviction.
But if you are a Judas, be warned. God sees your selfishness.

From
Cast of Characters
© (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2008) Max Lucado

Somebunny’s thinking of you today!

Girl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:02:12 +0000

And every other day too!

I know you can’t read yet, but it wouldn’t be the best idea for me to post this if you could. So I’ll take advantage of the opportunity now, while your still such a little girl today!

Cause I am SO SO SO PROUD of you, and I can’t keep it to myself! I hope you are crawling, but if your not, that’s OK too…everyone still loves you no matter what! You are doing so wonderful and I couldn’t be any more Amazed by you! Your Perfect.

So, Happy Happy Happy 8 Month-Old Birthday to the most beautiful girl in the world! I am so so so proud of you! I miss you! I’m sure you will smile a lot today, like always!

Thank you for being my everything! I love you & God loves you!

Feminist for life Susan B. Anthony

Girl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:20:24 +0000

“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”
~ Susan B. Anthony, quoted in The American Feminist, Spring 1998 ~

I just started noticing how the pro-abortion movement can’t stand this little quote of Mrs. Susan B! I know this was brought up by the FFL out a few years ago, but it is still not agreed on today and deserves more time in the spotlight I think. It’s about time we define the word ”feminist.” At least then we can decide to either be one or not.

“Susan B. Anthony championed the important role for women in civil life, and essential to her perspective was the recognition that abortion was oppressive and insulting to women,” said Jane Abraham, president of the SBA List. “She strongly opposed abortion.”

“Abraham added that Anthony’s approach to issues such as slavery and oppression was consistent with her vocal opposition to abortion.

The SBA List website quotes from Susan B. Anthony’s July 8, 1869 newspaper The Revolution , citing the following passage as an example of her pro-life convictions: “I deplore the horrible crime of child murder…We want prevention, not merely punishment.”

“No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from

suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed.

“It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death … but, oh, thrice guilty is he who…drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime,” Anthony warned.

Abraham said she believes it is important to continue Anthony’s fight.

“We are trying to faithfully and comprehensively promote Susan B. Anthony’s legacy by increasing the percentage of pro-life women in Congress and educating people about important pro-life issues,” Abraham said.

“We can celebrate the fact that in the last election, the number of pro-life women elected to Congress increased by more than 70 percent. We’re confident that our namesake would be very proud of this remarkable advancement for women and for the unborn,” she added.

According to Abraham, “Pro-abortion feminist groups like to say Susan B. Anthony would be ‘pro-choice’ if she were alive today, but her words speak for themselves.”

Feminists for Life (FFL) of America, a non-partisan, non-sectarian pro-life organization, is also working to inform the public about Anthony’s views through its College Outreach Program.”

Serrin M. Foster’s “The Feminist Case Against Abortion” (as seen in The American Feminist^®)

“Women Deserve Better than Abortion” article by Serrin M. Foster

“Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions” e-tutorial by Serrin M. Foster

“Pro-Woman Answers to Pro-Choice Questions” issue of The American Feminist^®

“FFL On Campus: The Revolution Continues” issue of The American Feminist^®

“FFL’s Pro-Woman, Pro-Life Legacy” issue of The American Feminist^®

“Herstory of the Week™” feminist history e-tutorial

Classic “Herstory Worth Repeating” columns from The American Feminist^®

Rosemary Bottcher’s “Abortion: A Betrayal of Feminism”

Frederica Mathewes-Green’s “The Bitter Price of Choice”

“…is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?”
~ Alice von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman, p.24 ~

THE AMERICAN FEMINIST^®

From “The Freminst” part of the FFL

“A most monstrous crime”

There is, however, one thing these advocates don’t know about Anthony, something that might temper their adoration: Susan B. Anthony was pro-life.

How could a feminist be pro-life? Simple: Abortion hurts women. Anthony and her friends knew this, and in fact the feminist movement did not support abortion until the 1970s.

A hundred years ago Anthony wrote an essay in her publication, The Revolution, about the “horrible crime of child-murder.” She was considering specifically the tragedy of abortion within marriage, wherein a pregnant wife “destroys the little being, she thinks, before it lives.”

Anthony wanted to “eradicate this most monstrous crime” but feared that laws alone would not be sufficient: “We must reach the root of the evil and destroy it.”

Anthony wrote about this evil with passion: “Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! Thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime.”

In response to the claim that Susan B. Anthony was against abortion, their was initially little response from the pro-choice side..I don’t think they knew what to make of it (as this post below of a frantic “feminist” displays. The best line, and most common I think at the time this article came out (2003), wasto say that Anthony was a sarcastic lady and only pro-choice women could get her humor…ha-ha. That’s some dark humor, that worries me that they “get” then.

We don’t joke about killing living, breathing babies. It’s not funny to anyone that truly embraces the essence of motherhood. Why are women afraid to BE WOMEN! How can they not see that abortion is more about the men in their lives and a society that tells them they must act a certain way and put up a front in the world. I think if any woman listens to her heart, she is sure what is right and knows she will regret a decision for abortion for the rest of her life, but weighs her odds and the current choices and decides “It can’t be worse than this, right now” But if we learned anything since, Roe v Wade, it’s that it does get worse for these women later. I’m in debate currently over whether they experience more pain after an abortion of mothers experience more pain after an adoption. I was leaning to their side, but now I think they are like comparing oranges to skyscrapers!

I really think women lived on an island with no judgement and no men. There would be NO abortions!

Now some responses below to the Susan B Quote from abortionists.

the response back in 2003, was usually like the first quote below, then rhetoric once again changed in the pro-abortion movement (who would of thought?

“The Feminist Majority, which supports abortion rights did not respond to requests for comment”

The website this convo was taken from is below…

AS K AMY: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Dear Amy,
Girl, I’m so freaked out about an article in my local paper. I don’t know where to even begin with some kind of rebuttal. Here’s the article:

“É Prospect and Connecticut women are buying a historic collection of suffragette artifacts to display. Not only did the courageous suffragettes help us as women to achieve the right to vote, but many of them also spoke out against the violence of abortion and its damage to women.

Dr. Charlotte Denman Lozier (1844-1870) was praised in her time for defending a young, pregnant woman, Catherine Fuller, and her pre-born child against abortion. Not only did she counsel her against this course of action but she also compassionately offered her services to help Fuller bear the child. Alice Paul, original author of the Egual Rights Amendment ERA, once said, “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) stated that abortion is “murder” and called for a “remedy for such a crying evil.” Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) wrote an essay in her publication The Revolution about the “horrible crimes of child murder.” Anthony was addressing the subject when she wrote, “We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil and destroy it.” She spoke of the burden on the conscience of the woman who aborts her child.

Regarding men, Anthony reprimanded them, saying that they should be taught to respect women and be honestly devoted to their wives. Her article on “Marriage and Maternity” is a powerful one! It is a delight to read Susan B. Anthony’s words: “Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them” There are many other pro-life feminists. I encourage readers to visit our office Resource Center for more information on pro-life feminism-yesterday and today.”

Amy, what do I say??? Also is what she said about our foremothers true? Did they really say those things about abortion??? I know what to say about the anti-choice feminism from Manifesta (great book) about how feminism is equality and taking away a women’s right to choice is not being equal whether you agree or not. But what else can I say!!! Help!

Thank you so much,
Erin

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Dear Erin,
I have recently received a few others notes just like yours. There is this semi-new group, Feminists for Life, and they tout Susan B. Anthony as their hero. My guess is that this group has been making a splash in the media and thus creating a buzz about feminist hypocrisy. Ugh! I think it’s impossible to apply their quotes from yesterday today - especially in regards to an issue that was at an entirely different stage. As I understand it, Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists did oppose abortion, but on the grounds that it was unsafe to the women and that it was being forced on them - something that feminists today would oppose, too. Our goal isn’t to force women to have abortions, but to leave it as an option should women want it. And when women do want it to ensure that it’s a safe procedure. I hope that helps and thanks for challenging this rhetoric.

Amy

Obviously, Feminists for Life have touched a nerve, and exposed the betrayal of the legacy of the early feminists.

Pro-Life feminists have consistently pointed to the opposition to abortion by 19th and early 20th century woman’s right advocates. A few months ago, a Feminists for Life member purchased Susan B. Anthony’s home and has put it in the care of FFLA for care and management, something that greatly irritates the writer of yesterday’s NYTimes op-ed that tries to reclaim Anthony:

This article below is crazy, in my opinion.

Desperately Seeking Susan

By STACY SCHIFF

Published: October 13, 2006

IT’S not fair, I know, but I’ve always had an issue with Susan B. Anthony. Clearly the B stood for killjoy; was there any greater drudge in American history? Even the wonders of springtime Paris could not distract her from her work. Breakfast in bed left her shuddering with guilt. She set foot on a beach for the first time at 67, attended her first football game a decade later. (The verdict? “They just take the ball and then fall down in heaps. It’s ridiculous.”) She gave spinsters a bad name. It came as no great surprise when taxi drivers tossed back the Susan B. Anthony dollars.

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Like all healthy grudges, this one is entirely personal. Every morning the school bus carried me past Anthony’s birthplace in Adams, Mass.; it was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The green house at the bend in the road loomed as an official halfway point, the demarcation line between Captain Crunch and algebra. Nor did it help that Anthony’s portrait, firm-jawed and ferocious, hung in the catalog room of the town library. She may well have stood for emancipation, but from the child’s perspective, hers was the pinched, angular face of repression.

Now it seems that stalwart Sue has an issue, one that might surprise her. That two-story house, a rich but undistinguished piece of real estate perched on a desolate stretch of highway, was sold at auction in August. It belongs now to Carol Crossed, the founder of the New York State chapter of Feminists for Life. Ms. Crossed made the acquisition on behalf of the national anti-abortion organization, which will manage and care for the house.

It is not the first time that Anthony has found herself leading the charge on this vexed issue. Since 1992 an anti-abortion political action committee has been named for her. On billboards and elsewhere, Ms. Crossed’s group promises to continue her legacy. “Susan B. Anthony was a forward-thinking woman who would feel comfortable with the positions of Feminists for Life of New York,” asserts the organization. Which does rather raise the question: When exactly did Susan B. Anthony — who fought more tenaciously for women’s rights than anyone else in our history — cast her anti-abortion vote?

There is no question that she deplored the practice of abortion, as did every one of her colleagues in the suffrage movement. Feminists for Life cites an 1869 article in her newspaper denouncing “child murder,” labeling abortion “a most monstrous crime,” and advocating its end. “No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed,” blares the article. “It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death.”

What is generally not mentioned is that the essay argues against an anti-abortion law; its author did not believe legislation would resolve the issue of unwanted pregnancy. Also not mentioned is the vaporous textual trail. According to the editors of Anthony’s papers, the article is not hers.

In her personal life Anthony was clear in her conviction that women were not preordained to motherhood, that sometimes a woman and her womb might go their separate ways. A devoted aunt, she claimed to appreciate her colleagues’ offspring, some of whom even felt warmly toward her. But she had little patience for maternity. At best she was the ever-helpful friend who asks if you realize what you are in for just as you have vomited your way through your first trimester. At worst she was a ruthless scold.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s pregnancies were Anthony’s despair: how was it possible, she wailed, “that for a moment’s pleasure to herself or her husband, she should thus increase the load of cares under which she already groans”? She was equally indulgent toward Antoinette Brown Blackwell, one of the movement’s most gifted orators: “Now, Nette, not another baby, is my peremptory command.” Over and over she needled Stanton, galled that the suffragette dream team had “all given yourselves over to baby making and left poor brainless me to do battle alone.” Stanton was the mother of six — one of whom weighed more than 12 pounds at delivery — when she received those cheering words.

Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America.”

On a happier note…

Abortion Groups Confident Obama Will Push His Pro-Abortion Agenda
Monday, November 10, 2008
By Matthew Hadro

Obama at Planned Parenthood event. (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - The leading abortion rights organizations in America say they are confident that Barack Obama will push for their full agenda, including passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, comprehensive sex ed and “reproductive rights” that include “affordable” birth control.Planned Parenthood, NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice America, and the Center for Reproductive Rights have each publicly congratulated the new president-elect on his victory. She added: “I’m proud that NARAL Pro-Choice America was the first major pro-choice PAC to endorse Obama for president. Obama was the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in history.

“NARAL Pro-Choice America worked hard for our slate of pro-choice candidates across the country, including pro-choice Sen. Barack Obama, and that hard work resulted in the reaffirmation of our commitment to the values of freedom and privacy,” Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America said in a statement.

It’s not even close to over yet! It really is a great time to be a Christian in America today!

Does a woman who is pregnant really have a choice on campus? Or is she forced to choose between having a baby and sacrificing her education and career plans?

Do parents, who are keenly aware that their education has a direct impact on their ability to take care of their family, have the resources and support they need and deserve in order to complete their education?

Our questions began after a Feminists for Life board member revealed her pregnancy in college and said, “Without housing on campus for me and my baby, without on-site daycare, without maternity coverage in my health insurance, it sure doesn’t feel like I have much of a free choice.”

As she traveled to campuses across the country, FFL’s President Serrin Foster realized that she had never seen a visibly pregnant student-or faculty member. In response, FFL held our first Pregnancy Resource Forum in 1997. After moderating Pregnancy Resource Forums for more than a decade, Foster knew this was not an isolated problem.

We wondered, what would student leaders from Ivy League, top state, private and religious universities and colleges, activists who were not in a crisis situation, find out about resources on their campuses?

In order to determine what students perceived about their schools’ resources and support for pregnant and parenting students, Feminists for Life launched its first-ever nationwide Pregnancy Resources Survey^SM in the fall of 2007.

The students’ revealing answers to our comprehensive study are unveiled in Feminists for Life’s groundbreaking study, Perception is Reality.

The results of this study shine a new light on the perceived (and likely real) lack of resources, policies, communications and central location to find help on their campuses.

Feminists for Life is committed to continuing to help administrators and college students evaluate their campuses and work toward new solutions. If you are a college or university administrator or a student and would like to participate in FFL’s ongoing survey of campus leaders, please contact FFL’s College Outreach Coordinator at coordinator@ffloncampus.org.

In response to the overwhelming perception that colleges and universities lack resources to support pregnant and parenting students, Feminists for Life invites student activists to hold their first annual Rally for Resources^SM on their campus this year.

On behalf of those who too often feel they are forced to choose,
thank you for helping us help pregnant and parenting students complete their education.

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Remember, dead bodies float with the current. It takes a live body to swim against it.

Girl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:31:17 +0000

“but it takes a real man, a real woman, to swim against the current.”

It’s a great time to be a Christian, because this is a time in which God really needs us to show off his true face. In olden days in America, the Church was respected. Priests were respected. It’s no so any more.

One of the greatest Catholic preachers in American history, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, used to say that he preferred to live in times when the Church has suffered rather than thrived, when the Church had to struggle, when the Church had to go against the culture.

It was a time for real men and real women to stand up and be counted. “Even dead bodies can float downstream,” he used to say, pointing that many people can coast when the Church is respected, “but it takes a real man, a real woman, to swim against the current.” How true that is! It takes a real man and a real woman to stand up now and swim against the current that is flowing against the Church. It takes a real man and a real woman to recognize that when swimming against the flood of criticism, you’re safest when you stay attached to the Rock on whom Christ built his Church. This is one of those times. It’s a great time to be a Christian.

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