Some people are stupid, some people are mean, some people are oblivious to the world around them. Then there are those lucky few who embody all those qualities and still don’t have sense enough to stay out of the spotlight and keep their pie-hole…

As far as children go, both of mine changed me when I already believed I knew it all.

I am the smartest man in the world because I lived long enough to know how much I don’t know.

I really wonder if the pro-choice numbers are related to depression and fear.

justincase on September 12, 2008 at 11:08 AM

For a parent about to have a child support from friends or family is very helpful. An first-time expecting parent should have some measure of fear, since raising a child isn’t an automated or inexpensive process. It is less difficult to raise a child if there are two parents rather than one and if the household has some stability.

There are a hundred other factors that contribute to a parent’s ability to manage their home and it sounds like your support contributes to the confidence a parent needs–since some days all the preparation in the world isn’t sufficient.

A baby may be God’s vote that life should go on, but it is the parent who is required to provide the continuous effort to nurture that life.

We were awaiting the birth of our first child when Bill Clinton was elected the first time. A woman I worked with was gung-ho about Bill and was pro-choice. One time I told her I was troubled by something and asked if I could ask a question that she didn’t have to answer. My question was why she didn’t think my child deserved to be protected from the choice of abortion.

She told me that she was petrified that she could become pregnant and be forced to have the child. She was petrified because she believed it would be a mistake to bring a child into this world. It turns out that she was very depressed and had no hope for her world. Having a child would force her to try to have hope, and she didn’t think she could do that.

I understand what that’s like. But when a person is really sad, the best thing to get them out of it is to help somebody else who truly needs them. A baby is God’s vote that life should go on – not just for the baby, but for the other lives the child touches, including the mother.

Many a mother has found a strength, hope, and joy that she never thought she was capable of. That’s exactly what Sarah Palin and all these other posters here who have experienced it are saying about welcoming special-needs children: that we rise to the need and are ultimately blessed, even if we’re afraid.

I really wonder if the pro-choice numbers are related to depression and fear.

Family life can be tough. There’s no such thing as a perfect family. We all bumble along the best we can. But I think you’ve been given a very special place in your sister’s life, and it may surprise you what a difference your love for her can make.

Thank you for sharing her story. Another poster told of her husband’s great-aunt. These are real people, and they’re hurting in a way the rest of us may not realize. Somewhere I read that four out of ten women walking America’s streets have had at least one abortion. That’s a lot of hurt right there where we live and breathe. Prison ministry leaders say anecdotally that about 80% of incarcerated women began their descent into crime after they had an abortion. Those are deep wounds.

When we do the Life Chain and hold the posters up, there are the honks of approval and the middle finger of derision, but the people I really worry about are the ones who stare straight ahead as they drive by. I have a feeling that they’ve already been through hell, and I’d give anything to be able to see them lifted back up.

Abortion = one dead, one wounded.

The Democrats and their minions have killed 50 million babies in America. That’s as many as died in WWII… and they’re not done yet. The abomination of abortion will end when people stop voting democrat and start voting for life.

Mojave Mark on September 12, 2008 at 8:16 AM

Most Americans favor abortion some form of abortion rights. Are you implying that the majority of Americans are complicit in something equal in scale to history’s greatest genocides? What is the nature of America or Americans that they could favor the killing of so many? You point to the Democrats, but many Republican voters and a good number of Republican politicians support the practice.

You’ve never heard of a young family mourning the loss of a child by miscarriage?

hawkdriver on September 12, 2008 at 6:32 AM

Yes, if carried for more than a few weeks. However, not in the case of a fertilized egg that failed to implant, though I’ve known couples who have longed for children and been unable to have them.

You’ve never heard of a young family mourning the loss of a child by miscarriage? hawkdriver on September 12, 2008 at 6:32 AM

It’s tragic and awful to lose a baby due to miscarriage. My wife and I did and I assure you we mourned the loss of our child.

The Democrats and their minions have killed 50 million babies in America. That’s as many as died in WWII… and they’re not done yet. The abomination of abortion will end when people stop voting democrat and start voting for life.

You’ve never heard of a young family mourning the loss of a child by miscarriage?

right2bright on September 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM

Thank you for sharing your story. We have each been blessed in some way, but many of us seem unable to recognize the blessing. So, in this you are doubly blessed, for you have also have the joy of treasuring the blessing you know you have received.

Look, if you want to know what an abortion is, simply google “silent scream”. Watch it. I dare you. I watched it once, sobbed on and off for an hour and refuse to watch it ever again.

And yes, the baby IS trying to desparately escape the instruments. And yes, you can see what appears to be the baby screaming in terror.

Let’s know what it is first before we do all this discussion about it.

Hard to determine. She has said that she thinks she’ll have to answer to her maker one day for that decision, which indicates to me that she knows in her heart that what she did wasn’t a “good” thing. But, it doesn’t speak to her thoughts on her faith and being forgiven. She seems to be extremely lonely, and I think leads a sad life. There is a lot of pain in her life I think, certainly not just the abortion. Her animals/cats do love her unconditionally and maybe that is what she needs most?

Geministorm on September 11, 2008 at 6:02 PM

My husband’s great-aunt had an abortion when she was young. It seemed to have given her a lot of grief, and I am not surprised if it did, since every time I saw her, I sensed an incurable sadness in her eyes. She eventually married a Lutheran minister, but never had any children. (We suspect the abortion caused her infertility.) Eventually, she had the chance to take good care of one little boy – my husband, who loved her dearly until the day she died a childless widow.

I don’t know if the pain never really goes away. It didn’t for her.

Sorry guys – if my girlfriend was going to pop out a retard, I’d get it “taken care of” very quickly.

My father wanted to make sure my mother “took care of” me, right after she announced to him that I was coming into the world. No, I’m a “normal” human being. 35 years later, I still wonder what made him think I was “worthless” back then… and then changed his mind when he saw me at last.

I’m not someone who lets out curses, but this time, I’m making an exception.

May the sight of children and adults with Down Syndrome always become a nightmare for the idiot who dared to call them “retard”. May their look in this man’s eyes pierce him like a sharp knife that cuts into the soul as into ice. May he never have a day of peace in his life, especially if he ever makes a girlfriend or wife have an abortion.

When did they get human rights?

I wonder if Dr. Lalonde’s mother would have aborted him if she had had advanced notice that he would turn out to be such a bastard.

Not to go too deeply into the family skeleton closet, but the conditions you mentioned were present at the time. Really, I was the only one that knew in the family, even though I was but 14-15 at the time, I was her confidant and in retrospect, was much too young to be of any real support without enough life experience to realize what she would have been going through.

Thank you for keeping her in your thoughts and prayers.