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Posts from: May 2011

Why I Won’t Drink Their Coffee: Fostering Life in a Culture of Denial (Part II)

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 18, 2011

The saying goes that sin doesn’t happen with a big decision but a series of little ones. The idea is that a person doesn’t one day decide to have an affair but begins to wander that way by looking at a person in the wrong manner. So it is with taking a stand in everyday decisions against abortion. In a society desensitized toward so many things, where capitalism rules, by making small decisions in our circles of life, we can be accountable to the call of God in us to stand against the culture of death in our land.

Now let me say that I have no illusion my not patronizing a business means abortion will stop. Honestly, this column isn’t about boycotting businesses; it’s about going to sleep in peace knowing that when I had a choice I stood for the one that mattered.

Because of open media, we have access to things we may not have known even a decade ago. Organizations like Life Decisions International publish lists of businesses that fund abortion. Organizations like LifeSiteNews publish multiple articles a day to keep us aware of what’s happening. We have open donation records due to laws that require some funding is made public. Very often the information comes from the website or the business itself. If we’ll move from denial and open our eyes to what is before us, we’ll find a small inconvenience could be worth the price of peace before God. Instead of telling you what to do, I am going to tell you pieces of my own journey and encourage you to pray and seek the Lord in your own life in the areas in which He is speaking to you.

I don’t drink their coffee because…

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Fostering Life in a Culture of Denial: Our Daily Decisions Matter (Part I)

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 17, 2011

We are a culture of denial. We have learned to block out anything we don’t like and justify it as normal. We see it all the time in relationships. Sometimes people don’t agree to work things out because communication would be too hard, so they cite “irreconcilable differences” and move on, or, perhaps worse, they live a façade and never face the elephant before them, while the original issue remains a gaping wound.

As believers we have our own culture of denial as well. How many things we do let in our lives that we justify. “Oh, that [insert entertainment genre] wasn’t that bad other than the part where they … (and they proceed to list things that insult or betray the son of God in the guise of entertainment).”

Moving up the ladder is the issue of abortion denial which comes in all shapes and sizes. Abortion has its sick tentacles in every aspects of society and from time to time we learn it’s touching things we love, and that’s not always something we want to look at closely. What would you do if you found out your favorite doctor that had treated your whole family forever and delivered all your children and was a leader in your church even was doing abortions? Would you confront it? Or is it enough to pretend that as long as you don’t overtly support abortion it’s okay? I mean, you don’t want to raise a ruckus with a good family friend, not in that small town. Sadly, in situations like this, the non-confrontational attitude becomes the prevailing thought, to the demise of righteousness.

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New Zealand Follows US in Providing “Secret Abortions” in Public Schools (Video)

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 16, 2011

If you’ve ever wondered of parental consent laws in abortion can really make a difference, perhaps the best way to answer that is to define it by negation and take a look at a disturbing pattern we see without those laws.

For several years I worked as a public school teacher in different districts, but one rule stayed the same. I was not, under any circumstances, no matter what the situation, allowed to give a student so much as an aspirin. If it was medicine at all, I was not allowed to do it, at the risk of losing my job. While there were times this rule was frustrating (an 18 year old senior with a serious headache who had to take a major test, while I had a stack of Advil in my purse), it also made sense. As teachers we could not know what the parents would want, what effects the drug might have on the students (what if they are allergic to ibuprofen but mom always gave them Tylenol so they never knew it?). The idea was my job was to teach them to write not to dispense drugs.

The rule became almost amusing when they were sent to the school nurse who would often send them back with a peppermint. The nurse couldn’t even dispense medicine without the parent actually bringing the bottle to school and signing a note that it was okay to give junior some pills.

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What if We Made the Choice to Love?

Posted by Christina Martin on May 13, 2011

Love looks like something. That was the message I continually heard during my 3 month stay in Mozambique last fall. I traveled across the world to Pemba, Mozambique to take part in a missions school run by Rolland and Heidi Baker. I wanted to learn to love, and God took me to Africa to show me how. My time in Mozambique was unlike any I’ve known before. I saw the desperation and unbelievable hunger of the poor. I witnessed the freedom of those who live simply. I saw the joy that comes from enjoying the beauty of nature and the warmth of friendship. I walked through bush lands, stayed in huts, ate gazelle, and watched women carry large objects wrapped in cloth on their heads. I swam in the Indian Ocean and slept outdoors, in a "billion-star hotel."

I had remarkable adventures, but by far the most enjoyable part of Africa was the children. Their bright, colorful faces shone as they eagerly ran to you on dusty roads. Everywhere we went, there seemed to be children ready to follow. They just wanted to be with us. We’d walk out of our home, and see them waiting for us. They’d call our names, and say hello in their native language. On Sunday afternoons we’d go swimming, and there would be hundreds of kids playing in the water. None of them had bathing suits, like we have in the U.S, yet none of them cared. They just jumped in with tattered shorts, and t-shirts. I’d often see boys walking around with toys they made by hand, from wood scraps and metal. They’d craft instruments and little cars, with such amazing creativity. They couldn’t afford store bought toys, so they made their own. I was delighted to see them find pleasure in the smallest things.

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MTV “Standards Department” Refuses Pro-Life Ads

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 12, 2011

When the desire to save lives becomes the target of boycotts or censorship, something is really wrong with the nation. The latest fear against running pro-life ads comes from MTV. As Life News reports:

Heroic Media, an organization supported by Sarah Palin and Lila Rose, wanted to run commercials saying “The most dangerous place for African-American children is the womb.” The organization said it planned to purchase ads on MTV during a recent fundraising Palin headlined, but the Washington Independent confirmed MTV will not allow it.

Apparently this decision was executed by the MTV Standards department in general reaction to Heroic Media, not only ads targeting African-Americans. I haven’t seen anything on MTV in years (on purpose), but without irony I must ask where any level of standards lie in that channel? MTV has displayed every vice known to man, every word forbidden in other public places, gross sexual behaviors, atrocious displays of lewdness and every manner of what the bible would call debauchery.

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Why Roe v. Wade Will be Overturned

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 11, 2011

The bottom line in the outrage over the crop of pro-life laws in the states, some of which require sonograms before an abortion, is that this is the power that will overturn Roe v. Wade, and the abortion industry knows it.

Last week my home state of Texas joined the roster of sonogram friendly states as the House and Senate have both passed bills requiring a sonogram before an abortion in the Lone Star State. Outspoken pro-life Governor Rick Perry actually pushed it through as “emergency” legislation so it could be passed sooner. He is expected to sign it.

The Texas bill requires a 24 hour waiting period and a woman to hear a detailed description of the sonogram report before she has an abortion. The truth is, it’s informed consent; it’s called knowing what you do before you do it. But of course, the fearmobile got out its wheels and the invasion of privacy fight is being driven into the ground. The reason for the fear isn’t just a sonogram, though.

In a simplistic manner of speaking, one of the reasons that we were able to make abortion legal was the fact that in 1973 it was a bit muffled to some when life began. However, advances in medical science have eliminated this argument, and as laws are passed to this effect, it’s pretty likely one of these will make its way back to Washington DC and face the Court again—and this time there can only be one answer: Abortion kills babies.

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Self-Described Christian Band Promotes Teen Sex Site, Abortion on Tour

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 10, 2011

The band self describes as “Christian metalcore,” but Texas in July must be overcome with heatstroke if we are to believe they can promote Jesus and abortion in the same concert. Life News reports:

Christian rock band, “Texas in July” is playing a benefit tour for sexetc.org, a pro-abortion web site targeting youth. Several popular bands including the Christian rock band Texas in July are playing a benefit tour for the pro-abortion sex education sexetc.org is a so-called ‘sex education’ website providing “sex education for teens by teens.” The site promotes abortion, speaks out against crisis pregnancy centers as well as promoting LGBT support for kids. The site also provides “how to” information for teens to engage in homosexual sex acts.

Being a stick in the mud about music, I’d not heard of the band so I looked them up. At first I thought the initial report was wrong because there wasn’t anything “Christian” about them. I read some lyrics, the band’s site, Wikipedia. I didn’t read every word, but generally if something is promoting itself as Christian, it’s apparent fast enough. But then I went to the band’s Facebook page and sure enough it says “we are a Christian metalcore band.” It was there I saw that Christian kids I know “like” their page, so somewhere Texas in July is reaching Christian kids.

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New Film’s Dramatic Request “To Be Born” (Video)

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 9, 2011

It takes a lot to get me to watch a video but this one riveted me. Based off of writing from a Chicago priest entitled "Letter from an Aborted Child," this short film, published last week on YouTube is a gritty, hard-hitting glimpse into the trauma of a woman pressured to abort her baby, and the perspective that child might have while being ripped from her mother’s insides.

According to LifeSite News, the film from Spirit Justice Studios, was made after the original piece of writing helped save the lives of more than 500 babies. You can find the film’s webpage at www.tobeborn.com or go to its Facebook page, as well.

It’s refreshing to see solid technical quality, as this short films displays. One thing it does very well is to portray the woman who is pressured internally and externally as a night of seeming fun has uprooted the life she has. As you watch this, consider the abortion clinic scene and the woman’s pain. Will that doctor and nurse help her afterwards if she has an abortion? She’s putting her lives and her baby’s life in the hands of people who probably would want her to stop crying fast enough to shuffle in the next customer. That subplot is almost as impacting to me as the main one.

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Protest or Panic Attack?

Posted by Christina Martin on May 5, 2011

I have to say I am a bit surprised and somewhat embarrassed by the latest actions of some of our D.C council members. The Washington Post recently ran a blog entitled "Cheh, others arrested during Capitol Hill protest." In it they give the details of the arrest of D.C council member Mary M.Cheh and other women who blocked Constitution Avenue after the House of Reps voted to permanently ban the District’s use of tax dollars to pay for abortions for low income women. At an earlier rally near the Capitol, Cheh declared "It’s time to show we are not going to be humiliated…. We are not going to crouch…. Who is going to stand with me for freedom?"

Freedom? Really? Come on, now. Low income women, mostly Black and Hispanic getting government funds to help kill their children. So, tell me again, who’s getting set free in this picture? Sounds more like bondage and slavery to me. Tax payer funded abortions is just one more way to tie the black community into believing the government is their god and politicians are their papa’s. We’re 80% fatherless as a community, and the government’s welfare checks and abortion funds lead us to believe they are here to take care of all of our needs. whether that be food stamps or pre-natal murder.

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Planned Parenthood Throws Indiana Sized Temper Tantrum

Posted by Susan Michelle on May 4, 2011

It wasn’t long ago that Bound4LIFE director Matt Lockett published this guide to the multitudinous pro-life legislation currently in states across the nation, and we are seeing each week how these are more than political statements, but principled actions of these who are committed to governmental reformation of destructive policies.

Planned Parenthood knows this too. In fact, in Indiana, home state of Representative Mike Pence, whose name was behind the Pence Amendment, the legislation that caused US House to vote twice to defund Planned Parenthood (which, unfortunately, did not make it through the US Senate), has decided if the nation won’t defund death, then Indiana will.

This week, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is expected to sign the legislation which would remove funding to Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood plans to sue.

You read that right. Now Planned Parenthood, a private organization which has no inherent right to federal or state monies, has such a sense of entitlement that it thinks it’s injustice to defund the organization. Of course, they aren’t telling you how they think they are entitled in their own greedy minds, which see the dollar signs fleeing away. Instead, they are pulling the preventative medicine card

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