Inconvenient Truths

When Norma McCorvey was approached, she agreed to the terms laid out by the lawyers; she would sign the documents they'd prepared.  Norma was Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade. 

The laws protected most preborn babies in Texas.  The lawyers challenged the law by claiming Roe was raped.  The child, having been conceived by rape, they insisted, was too much of a burden.  After all, who would force a woman to carry a baby conceived by rape? 

Please note; there is a baby.  A baby indistinguishable from a baby conceived by any other means.  A baby, just as valuable as one conceived with wine and roses.  A baby, fully human and most definitely alive.

Norma had her baby.  The case was for the rest of us.  It is a curious position to be in, to be designated as a classification of people who are legally killed.  Of course, it is for a limited time only.

The case, coupled with Doe v. Bolton, actually allowed abortion on demand for any reason at any time during pregnancy.  Roe was decided, in case of rape, but Bolton had provisions for health of the mother, including, but not limited to financial, medical, emotional or social.  Did I leave anything out?  I think not.

Rape was on the rise in the '60s & '70s.  There are reasons that would require a chapter of a book to explain.  Which I did in my book.   The important thing to note today is that rape is even more prevalent now.  

We live in a highly sexualized and increasingly violent culture.  Rape conception is not rare anymore. Savethe1 President, Rebecca Kiessling, has over a hundred people conceived by rape or born from rape in her contacts.  

Think about that for a moment.  Those are just the people who know they are conceived by rape and have made an effort to become a community.  How many more are there?

Since before the Roe Decision by the Supreme Court, there have been concerned people who actively worked to  create networks of people to combat the evil of abortion.  These activists banded together to strategize and protest abortion, to come up with solutions to crisis pregnancy and to educate the general public about the forthcoming tragedy.

In New England, Warren Goddard and Kathy Souza were among the forerunners and are still active today.  They gathered and fought the tide with a 100% ProLife stand. 

They are called ProLifers.  Sadly today, I am told, up to 60% of people who attest to being ProLife are ProLife with exceptions for rape, incest, fetal anomaly and life of the mother. That was the very basis of Roe in the first place!

Let's break it down; the baby is still a baby.  

• Even if he was conceived by force.  
• Even with fetal anomaly, she is still a child.  
• Even in rare cases wherein the lives of mother and child are mutually endangered, the doctor has two patients; doctors must do their best to save both.  If one is lost, it is sad, but we should not advocate the intentional killing of the baby in order to potentially save the mother.
• Every exception is a person.
• Every one deserves the Right to Life.
• Every one has inestimable value and potential that no one could possibly foretell. 

Norma changed her mind. She knows the truths above.
Sure, there are hard cases.  Life is messy, but we must take the high ground. 

We can provide positive, life affirming solutions for women that are in crisis situations.  Let's tackle the crisis. Find out what she really needs and provide materially, emotionally, finically or other. 

I thank God for so many who, get it. National Personhood Alliance gets it. Visit NPA No exceptions, no compromise groups insist on logic to prevail in the discussion about certain classes of people to whom the Right to Life applies.


Let's bring America back to Life is NPA's motto.  Do you think we can bring the US back to Life?

Responsibility

Critical Defense Institute, Manchester NH

My coach, nearly every time I am in class and sometimes when I am not, comments that I am a type A personality.  

“It’s ok.” he says, “I get you.  I am the same way.” He comments because I will think about the scenarios that might come about that would be a cause for me to use the moves he is teaching.  

He is trying to give me a general knowledge of specific tools to use for innumerable situations though.  He is teaching techniques for self defense in generic situations, but I need to visualize a circumstance in which that particular movement would be implemented.  In my mind, if I can visualize the attack, I can visualize the defense.

“I get a lot done.” is my response.  Sometimes I really get tied up in my responsibilities.  It keeps me up at night.  The To Do lists, the little boxes to check off after tasks have been completed, and the strikethroughs are dogging me.

What makes some people responsible?  Why is it that a volunteer position is a back burner, when I can get to it kind of thought for some people, but for others, the idea of responsibility is almost overwhelming.  When tasks do not get checked off the list, anxiety ensues.  

Responsible means able to be held accountable. It also means required to respond. 

I know people that take on responsibility with ease and dignity.  I know others who barely uphold their contractual obligations. I often wonder what makes the difference.  Why is it that two people can hold the same position at a company and one will always be finding innovative improvements, while another doesn’t even complete the tasks required?

The NH Legislature is basically volunteer. They receive a stipend, but not a regular paycheck.  They need to be very responsible people.  Either they have to be very disciplined and focused or they need a great support system in order to be a valued contributor.  

We really have a special relationship with our legislators here.  We have such a small state and so many in the House and Senate that we might see them in the grocery store or local restaurants.  Local control is what made the USA a great country.  People knew their Representatives.  So, they knew if they were a good representation of their values, goals and ethic. 

Do you know your legislator?  Are they truly representing you in Concord?  These people are making laws that govern your life and that of your community and the lives of the next generation.  They have enormous control over business, infrastructure and your rights as a citizen of the New Hampshire.

My motto as a teen was, “Ignorance is bliss.”  I thought that I could float through life and be free.  I was terribly wrong.  We are all connected. Degrees of separation are just that, degrees.  What you do today affects other people.  What I do does too.  We all have responsibility.  What we do with it, determines more than just our own future.  It could mean the difference between life and death for someone else too.  

Do you know your legislator? Why or why not?

The Next Step

Are you ready for the next step?

Is it a business change, a promotion opportunity or an additional  relationship?  Maybe it is a volunteer position that has opened.  You can do anything, right?

For most of us fear of the unknown or fear of loss keeps us from moving into the next level of life.

It's usually a bubble.

The bubble could be a real obstacle or it could be soap filled with air. Either way, you don't need to let it get in your way.  If you step out and try the new thing, there are only really two potential outcomes.  You might fulfill a need and bring an answer that only you can or you could fail and have to start over.

Bubbles are fascinating.  They are almost mesmerizing. Swirling rainbows, encircling an invisible globe of air float on invisible currents bringing joy to billions of people.

They have a magical quality, in that many people choose to intentionally burst them, while others avoid them, hoping to watch them lift into heaven.

This bubble is hovering over the next step.   Do you step on it?  Do you step beside it, hoping it will float aside, out of your way?

Hard Cases

I was staffing a table at the Women's Expo, here in NH this spring when  young girl approached the booth.  We had a nice assortment of prenatal models and gestational development information.  We also had some birth control brochures and a basket full of models of preborn babies that are the size and appearance of 11-12 weeks to give to people.  We all develop slightly differently, right?

The girl looked around and said we had a nice display.  She had a friendly demeanor and she was very well spoken.  I asked her if she had any questions.  She said she did not and that she was on a debate team in college.  She went on to say that she had taken the 'other' side.

"Oh," I said, "Why is that?"  "Well, I am prochoice in hard cases." she said. "Like, what kind of cases?" I asked. Then I listened.


If a woman is raped and the kid will grow up poor or in an abusive situation, then they should be aborted. She explained it in cold, perfectly reasonable terms. As she spoke about the tragic circumstances that a child might grow up in, I nodded and motioned with my hand for her to keep talking.

"So, you think I should be killed?" I asked, in a tone that was curious, not angry, but challenging. "I am that kid." I told her.

Why is it that people think it is ok to kill others, if their life will be hard?  No one I know has had everything easy.  "Everybody's got stuff." I say all the time.

I spoke with two candidates for office this week. Two candidates in one day told me that exceptions for rape and incest are irrelevant when I asked if they were 100% ProLife.  They are right, in a way.

NH has ZERO protection for any preborn babies.  Actually, there are no real protections for trafficked children, abused and coerced women in NH abortion clinics either.   There are no regulations, no licenses, no inspections of clinics, no required information for women before they submit to abortion.  The abortion vendors in NH have a free reign and supposedly monitor their business themselves.

"Are we going to debate Roe at the State House?" one of the candidates retorted.  I felt as if there is such an attitude of conclusion.  That NH will never protect our most vulnerable and it is preposterous to imagine a time when it would matter if they were actually 100% ProLife, no exceptions, no compromise.

The worst part is that the attitude is so pervasive throughout society.  Human life is so devalued, so trivial that children conspire to kill children.  We are so mixed up about the value of life that a person can go to prison for killing a dog, but others can kill babies right up until the moment of birth and be absolved of any blame.

I think it matters if you are 100% ProLife.

As resources contract and people are desperate, there may be others on the list of exceptions.  You may not kill another person, except in case of ...  You name it.

The category of people legally killed is currently limited to the preborn, those hidden from view.  Many cases of children with devastating diagnoses have been hidden away to be killed in hospitals already.  We know of cases where our elderly have been neglected and killed to save resources.

I believe a huge part of the problem of reduced resources is that fact that we have killed scores of millions of people who could have come up with cures, inventions, systems and all kinds of marvels that could have propelled the world into a prosperous future. Instead we have wounded women, men stripped of their legacy and a culture with little regard for other people.

Who's next?

Excuse Me, NH Senators

The auto response from the NH State Senators is hardly reasonable. Some presume to “face-palm” NH Constituents.  In anticipation of an upcoming vote to impose law on NH citizens, the response to email requesting representation is an impersonal snub.

For example: They auto respond that if you are not in their district, contact your own Senator.

This ought not be so.  Senators make their policy and voting records known during campaigning and while executing their terms.  They have the right to vote the way they want to. They were elected to office.  My issue is not, as much, how they vote, but how they vote without any accountability to particular pieces of legislation, unless the communicant is in their own voting district.

Of course, I expect responses to voters.  I also expect responses for those who will be impacted by a particular piece of legislation.  I deserve to be addressed and so do you.  

We adhere to the foundational premise of freedom in the US.  NH, in particular, has motto of: Live Free or Die. 

Yet our legislature passed a bill the infringes on our First Amendment Rights.  The right to assemble and the right to speak freely have been abridged by this 2014 legislature.

Senate Bill 319, also known as, the Buffer Zone Bill, forbids people to enter or gather on the public sidewalk in front of abortion clinics.  

We are not allowed to offer help to women.  We may not get close enough to allow a victim of an abusive situation to reach out for help before a coerced abortion.  We are not allowed to pray: to ask Almighty God to intervene in the lives of the people inside, to ask for his mercy on victims, to ask for His help to get out of bad situations, to ask for Him to send angels in to care for the souls of all, to be a ready hand in time of need.

Are they above reproach?  Some of these Senators believe they are too insulated to respond to us when we ask for their opposition to traitorous acts, such as the Buffer Zone.  An impersonal auto responder is ok for a stopgap, but NH Citizens should be acknowledged. If they are getting so much email that they cannot respond, perhaps it would be prudent to carefully consider whether they are on the right side, the side of the people.

When you think about who you are voting for, think about how they will represent you.  Do you really want Legislators who will enact legislation that impacts the whole state, but will only be held accountable by their own voting constituents?