Blood Money

I'm being a nag

The surest way for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. 

Edmund Burke

This is really a no-brainer. If you value the freedom of any person to follow his conscience, if you believe that a person should be allowed to refuse to act in a way that directly contradicts his own deeply-held religious beliefs, then say so. Don't depend on "someone else" to protect the freedoms that we all hold dear. Stand up and be heard. Heck, you don't even have to stand up. Just click your mouse a few times. 

Here's your chance. 

Family Planning Associates Plane Crash

I read this article at the blog of a friend, and thought I should pass it along. I hope this is a wakeup call for Bud Feldcamp. We should pray for his family, and those that died in the crash. 

Freedom of Conscience

President Obama wants to end the freedom of healthcare workers to act according to their own consciences, requiring them to provide abortions or dispense birth control, even if it conflicts with their own personal beliefs. Does this sound like freedom of choice to you? (Of course it is, as long as you choose what the government tells you to!) 

Frankly, it sounds a bit Orwellian to me. 

Don't like it? There's a petition here. Go sign it! NOW! 

The memo

Here's a lovely little document generated by the VP of Planned Parenthood in 1969.  It's a memo proposing methods of limiting the population growth of the United States. Downright creepy how many of those methods have managed to sneak in, isn't it? Anyone feeling like they're living in China, or under the watchful eye of Big Brother? 

I need to sit on my hands...

Okay, this is really my last post about the election. But I had to share these little bits from here and there with you. 

In a recent article from Faith & Family Live, an author shares her wonder and worry about the outcome of the presidential election. She marvels at the barrier we've just crossed as a nation, and how wonderful and moving it is that we've elected the first African-American man as president. She goes on to say: 

It's bittersweet in the extreme, however, that the man who embodies the triumph of our founding principle "all men are created equal" with respect to black persons should be so unwilling to extend to the unborn the same right to be included in the family of men. It shows he doesn't know the meaning of his own triumph, and it's a blot on his achievement much as the institution of slavery was a blot on the American founding. 

The author goes on to share (and here's the second bit, that really shocked me) about a constitutional amendment passed in Michigan that makes it permissible to create embryos specifically for the purpose of experimenting on them. Does that make anyone else just want to be physically ill? (You can read the article in its entirety here.) Creating people, just so we can experiment on them?! It's like a bad nightmare, something from a science fiction movie. It's so evil, so frightening. "Oh, but those are just groups of cells. They're not people." Well, you and I are just a few dollars' worth of chemicals. 

The blogger of Conversion Diary (one of my very favorite blogs) talks about this very thing: how the victims of every kind of genocide were first categorized as less than human. Jews in the Holocaust, infant girls in ancient Rome, slaves in early America. How society uses euphemisms to talk about people that are being stripped of their humanity, calling them anything but man, woman, child. How that act makes the horror easier for society to swallow, like the frog boiling in the cooking pot. 

There are so many things I could say on this topic. But I am so fatigued by the evil of it. So heartsick that people have eyes but don't SEE. I am grieved that misguided sympathy makes this a "woman's rights issue," as if killing people should be the right of anyone. 

Don't even get me started about FOCA. Catholic hospitals will have to start performing abortions, even though that is anathema to their very existence. Parental notification (for parents of minors seeking abortion) will be ended. The ban on partial birth abortion will be lifted. This law can't even be described as Pro Choice - it can only be described as Pro Abortion. This is the first thing Obama wants to sign when he takes office! I'm heartsick about the thought of it. 

I need to sign off now, and go hug my children, and pray that they can make a better world of this mess they'll inherit. 

My heart is heavy

My heart is heavy because of the election results. I am grieved that so many people just blithely don't think. Here, read this - she says it best.