Difficult Discussion
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Family on Friday, January 20, 2012
This weekend for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, our parish is having its usual prayer vigil. We signed up for a half-hour time slot. Bryan’s going and I suggested he might take our five-year-old daughter with him.
But I wasn’t surprised when he hesitated. Because, you see, we haven’t explained to Camilla about abortion yet.
We did participate in the local pregnancy care center’s fill-a-bottle-with-coins... READ MORE
Will You March?
Posted by Lisa Hendey in News on Thursday, January 19, 2012
This morning for my segment on the Son Rise Morning Show, host Brian Patrick and I discussed social media coverage of next Monday’s upcoming March for Life in Washington D.C. The topic interests me greatly, since I’ve never been able to actually attend the March. In recent years, I have found that by following selected friends on Facebook and Twitter, I can get a sense of what it must be like in that... READ MORE
Not Helping!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I doubt this audience needs any persuading that women can do better than abortion, but here is some grim evidence anyway.
This is the advice Fund Abortion Now is giving women about how to pay for their abortions.
Some of it is sensible economizing.
Some of it is desperate measures anyone truly poor might take to cover an unexpected expense (pawning goods, volunteering for medical experiments).
But... READ MORE
Witness to Life
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Family on Monday, December 19, 2011
This is an odd story for the week before Christmas, but I found it deeply moving.
It’s a simple account of something a post-abortive father said to a young man gathering signatures for a NARAL petition.
The comments (if you can bear some profanity) are worthwhile, too, as they give insight into the thoughts of folks who aren’t especially religious, or even pro-life necessarily.
Just honest.
I find the post beautiful and sad. Sad for the obvious reason, and beautiful because it is true and brave, and tells of a great kindness performed—even if the recipient was powerless to recognize it as such in the moment.
It also reminds me that hearts change.
Indeed, society’s change of heart with respect to life is almost inevitable as the number of people who hate abortion precisely because they’ve experienced it swells.
I don’t know whether this fellow or his audience vote pro-life. But it’s heartening they are actively advising young people to have nothing to do with abortion.
So Perfectly Organized
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, November 28, 2011
In this video, Alexander Tsiaris, who helped develop the MRI, talks to an audience about the marvels of human development. He also shows a clip of his video showing the development of a person from conception to birth. He tells us among other things
that the developing human body is “so perfectly organized a structure that it was hard not to attribute divinity to it.”
“So perfectly organized” is Science for “fearfully and wonderfully made,” perhaps. At any rate, his wonder is marvelous.
With a polite nod to Lifesite News. You can find a link to Tsiaris’ entire video by clicking the link.
Changing Minds: A Documentary
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
That’s the pro-life video featuring man-on-the-street interviews with people who style themselves “pro-choice.”
By the end of their conversation with evangelist Ray Comfort, however, they profess to have changed their minds.
I won’t embed the film here, as it contains very graphic images from the Holocaust, but I invite you to watch it at this link and then return to share your reaction.
Of course share freely, but here are some questions to get the ball rolling.
Did anything surprise you? (What surprises me most is the number of people in it who profess to have no idea who Hitler was—not even whether he was a good or bad person.)
What do you make of the overall approach? Is this kind of street evangelization something we need more of?
Do you find the “conversions” convincing—that is, will they last?
Moms of the Pro-Life Movement
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, November 07, 2011
Here’s a nice piece in the Washington Post’s On Faith column on the young moms of the pro-life movement.
It features my friend Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List.
(Great picture at the link, Marjorie!)
Recent news stories about the new vitality of the antiabortion movement and its legislative achievements — more than a dozen states enacting record numbers of abortion restrictions this... READ MORE
The Kids Are All Right
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, October 31, 2011
Amidst news reports on battles & skirmishes, it can be difficult to see what’s happening in the larger conflict.
Here’s a heartening article about the long-term success of the pro-life movement.
You may or may not agree with some of the political assumptions, but you’ll like this news:
In 2011 alone, 24 states have enacted 52 new restrictions on abortion. Five now require an ultrasound before an... READ MORE
How to Love
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Friday, September 09, 2011
The following video is inappropriate for kids, but I hope you’ll take a look at it.
It’s not from an artist or genre ordinarily to my taste, but I watched after reading about it at Dr. Alveda King’s blog. I’m impressed and heartened, and think you will be too.
No Easy Surrenders!
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Last week’s post on the threat to the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion posed by Health and Human Services rules slated to take effect next summer garnered some attention on facebook and google+.
I posted to spread the word, and to point out some unintended consequences of the effort to force pro-lifers to assent to abortion, so was pleased in that regard.
But jeepers, the comments... READ MORE
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