Broken By Abortion, Fixed By Jesus

Can't Say It Better Than She Did...

Do You Subscribe to the Cult of Death?

Changed by Abortion

Here is a book and an actual healing website for a private journey through your abortion experience.  Not just for the women who have made this tragic choice, but for their boyfriends, the would-be grandparents, the friends who drove them to the clinic, the husbands who pressured them, etc.

Perhaps the taboo is cracking, if not broken in the world and that death grip that Paglia talks about (see blog entry below) is beginning to at the very least be questioned.

The healing website:

http://www.abortionchangesyou.com/home

The author, Michaelene Fredenburg, speaking about her book to mental health professionals:

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PL08I01&f=AL08J01

A Lib Rethinks Feminism

The word "feminism" ceased to be palatable to me after I realized that I had been lied to regarding my so called "right to an abortion", which turned out to be a doorway to all ugliness, an invitation from the culture of death to worship more deeply and more closely at the altar of the one whose aim is to destroy all of God's creation.  My divorce from feminism was final and without regrets.  

Being a wife only served to confirm how feminism handicaps women in relationships, as wives and mothers, with its insistence on the self-aggrandisement of the woman, the habitual stamping of the foot for "what I deserve!".  The one single ingredient that made my marriage finally begin to work is anathema to feminism - that was humility.  I have never needed the "f" word to define my strength, independence or achievement, and I have done what I could to warn off the young women in my arena to the hazards of feminism's braggadocio.

I am curious to read this from the critical liberal pen of Camille Paglia, who has been tracking the "f" movement and its weaknesses as it has morphed over the generations.  Perhaps she sees in Sarah Palin a new way of understanding how women are achieving some of feminism's goals wholly outside of the "feminist movement".  Here is Paglia:

"The next phase of feminism must circle back and reappropriate the ancient persona of the mother -- without losing career ambition or power of assertion. Betty Friedan, who had first attacked the cult of postwar domesticity, had long warned second-wave feminists such as Gloria Steinem about the damaging exclusion of homemakers from their value system. The animus of liberal feminists toward religion must also end (I am speaking as an atheist). Feminism must reexamine all of its assumptions, including its death grip on abortion, if it wishes to survive."

To read the whole piece, go to http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html.

Little Curve-Ball

Having just learned that my daughter is going to have a child, my whole world has been turned on its head. Often when she has gotten herself into trouble she says, "Mommy, I have to make all the same mistakes you made."

She has indeed gone in many of the foolish directions I did at her age, and come back from them, by the grace of God. But one mistake she is not making is that she would never consider having an abortion as I did, praise God. She is going to have her baby. She is going to marry Eddie and change her life to accommodate this new life growing within her. To me this feels like such a vindication for my error, such a victory for life and its Author, such a slap in the face for the enemy of Life. Thank you Father that I will have a chance to honor the life of this child.

While there is much to say about this, I say today, Glory to You, Father, that my family ties with the spirit of the unwanted child are severed in the precious name of Jesus.