First day on the sidewalk and taking a break from the blog.

Alright two topics today:

First, I did my first stint of sidewalk counseling today at Routh Street and I am so glad I did. I can not find the words right now to recount my experience but suffice it to say it is something that I plan to do for many more weekends and years.

Secondly, I participating in a fast that includes breaking from the internet and all forms of media (The Cause USA) so I will not be on until it ends. Please pray for this cause and if you feel so led, join us.

So farewell for a few weeks,
Lauren

Fetus to have more rights than mother?

I have posted something similar to this before, but I thought I'd post again because I was questioned on the issue. Essentially, yes the fetus would have the right to infringe on the mother's rights in the same way a child or mentally retarded person would. This does not place the child above the mother, but rather takes into account that it can not take care of itself and thus has the right to not be neglected.

This right is extended to any person under the age of 18. The mother would be required to give nutrients and housing just as she is required to nourish and house her born child. The fact that in order to not neglect her child the woman must house it inside her body is inconsequential.

The right to not be neglected supersedes many rights of parents such as right to privacy and right to autonomy. There is not level of rights; they are all equal and equally protected. Thus there is no qualitative difference between giving up right to privacy and giving up right to bodily domain. I can not remove my child from my house and allow him to freeze, nor then would I be able to remove my child from my womb and allow him to die.

Until you prove that bodily domain is somehow more a right than any other right, I will not agree that a mother can remove her child and allow him to die simply for enacting its right to not be neglected.

In regards to McFall V. Shimp: The case is centered on a man whose body has failed him. He is asking that his cousin give him something that has "gone out" so to speak in his body. His cousin is under no obligation to provide him replacement parts. Similarly, a mother is under no obligation to provide a kidney for her son if his happens to fail.

However, a pregnancy is a different situation all together. The fetus' body has not given out or failed. There is no need for replacement parts. The fetus is asking only for basic housing and nutrients that only the mother can provide. Taking away the womb is not akin to not giving a kidney, but rather taking away the shelter for a one year old because he is infringing on your privacy. Obviously, this type of neglect would not be tolerated, even though the child is obviously infringing on your rights.

I know I was a bit repetitive but I was trying to bring the argument around full circle. The general idea is this. Yes the fetus would have more rights than an adult in the same way that any child has more rights than an adult because of the issue of neglect. Giving a fetus personhood would put them on the same line as a child or mentally handicapped person. If an ape can gain this designation (as is trying to happen in Spain) I do not see why an unborn child can not.

The Intelligent one's abort.

I am a teen mother. I used over 200,000 dollars in government funds when my son was born two months too early. I have heard that I do not deserve him, that I should have aborted, given him up, or abandoned him. I have heard that I am not a good mother because I am only half way through a college education and do not make six figures. I am told I am irresponsible because I do not believe in birth control and would, in fact, welcome the birth of another child.

Society hates me. I am an epidemic. No one cares that my son is happy and healthy, cared for and loved. He does not matter. He will grow up to be a failure, just like me. My loving husband is obviously abusive, or so I've been told. He will leave me in spite of our commitment to our family because we are just "too young". We deserve any negative thing that happens to us. Losing our car to an out of control driver 3 days after our son was delivered was justified because we are young. Payroll shorting my husbands check was justified because we are young. Being looked down upon at every turn was justified because we are young.

Patronizing medical experts treated me like a child. I half believe they believed I fabricated my highschool diploma. No teen mother is intelligent. The intelligent ones abort. The intelligent ones don't leave private colleges and full ride scholarships to spend months in a hospital bed fighting for the life of a "bundle of cells". Abortion is intelligent. No one cares that you are happy. If you are a teen mother, you are worse than any murderer or thief. Your child deserves death, your husband deserves castration, and you deserve to live with the knowledge that you are a murderer.

I am a teen mother. I do not usually tell people my age. I am 18. I graduated highschool at 16, I got married, pregnant, and became a mother at 17. Why is that a crime?

Thank's mom

For not aborting me. That's about the only thing I can thank my mother for, but it does mean a lot to me that she let me live. My mother is the most pro-abortion person around, but thankfully I fit into her window of 6 months that she decided was an acceptable time to have a child.

My mother is the type of person who reminds me daily that she is a wonderful mother because she paid for a surgery that allowed me to not have a tumor engross my entire leg. Thank's mom.

Still, I am happy that for whatever reason she choose life. Thank's mom...it means a lot to me.

Highways and Byways Church

I'm just making a quick post to link to a wonderful spirit filled church in Nashville, TN.

The Move If you are looking for a new spiritual home or just a place to come and be prayed for and lifted up, this church is defiantly the place. They are very mission oriented and the move of God is so so apparent in this church. I encourage everyone in the area to check it out.

Highways and Byways Church

I'm just making a quick post to link to a wonderful spirit filled church in Nashville, TN.

The Move If you are looking for a new spiritual home or just a place to come and be prayed for and lifted up, this church is defiantly the place. They are very mission oriented and the move of God is so so apparent in this church. I encourage everyone in the area to check it out.

Planned Parenthood's "Mother's day cards"

You wanted to kill me but those pesky lifers got in your way. Planned Parenthood had a better way! Aren't you sad you have me now, I'm making your life miserable...At least I'm cute!



And every unwanted child a dead child! Happy mother's day mom, thanks for saving me from a life of horror and pain, I especially loved when I was sucked out of the womb limb by limb...At least I'm not *gasp* an alive unwanted child. Murder at the hands of my mother was far more heartwarming.

no no no no NO!

I just read something that literally made me cry out to God. I can't even explain how horrendous this is.

I read on abortion clinic days that they are planning on insturmenting a policy of allowing women to "donate the fetal tissue to science".

Let that sink in for a moment. They aren't doing this nefariously behind the persons back, but rather are giving women the option to essentially murder their child for science. Create a child and kill it all for some "greater good". The thing that is most disturbing to me is that this isn't a bunch of unethical mad scientists...These are everyday women who knowingly sacrifice their child to this, allowing them to pat themselves on the back for doing something "for the good of society".

I can not fathom anything more evil than this. Can you imagine killing your child and then saying "well, I already killed him, might as well use his body to cure cancer" and then, inevitably "well if it is moral for me to allow my dead son to cure cancer, I must make more and more babies to kill to cure cancer to be a moral human".

Soylent green is people. If the cure for cancer involves killing our children, let me die.

Breakdown

I am really struggling today. I don't understand how people can be so evil. And yes, I think that these people really are. I think that they have been so overcome with evil forces that they have transpired into the darkness of hate. I know that I shouldn't think that anyone is a "lost cause" and I'll continue to pray for these people. But they are evil.

Who am I talking about? First any person who makes money off of the death of an innocent child. (yes I know a child can't be innocent because he can't be guilty...You know what that's BS a child is innocent no matter what you tell yourself to be able to sleep at night) Second any person who actively encourages a mother to kill her own child. Third any person who creates a system where mothers are seen as second class citizens.

You're all evil and I really don't care who I hurt when I say it. There is not much in the world worse than profiting from the horrendous execution of a baby. Yes baby, I'm not saying ZEF I'm not playing by your rules anymore.

We play by your rules and take any handouts we get and guess what, 4000 children a day are killed. So I refuse to do this any longer. From now on I will not sugar coat anything anymore. You're an abortionist? You're on the same level as Hitler buddy and I don't even care that I broke Goodwin's law.

There is such overwhelming evil and it proliferates because people don't want to call it like it is. That is the Enemy's greatest weapon. We need to stand up and say that we will not be "tolerant" of abortionists. We will pray for their souls, but we will not play by their rules. (I'm not saying to do something illegal, I'm just saying that pussyfooting around their transgressions has got to end)

Maybe everyone else in the blogosphere has come to this conclusion far earlier than I have. I really thought that there must be some good in everyone. It's hard for me to believe that evil can win a soul. I was ignorant. Evil is all around us and it is sucking up people in the guise of choice. This has to end. We can not let evil prevail.

Pictures of Holden's Birthday

I can't believe Holden is one! Here are a couple of pictures from his birthday party and Grandma Donna's.

Happy Birthday Holden!

One year ago today I went into labor 9 weeks early. We weren't sure if our tiny child would live.

Today he is a vivacious, wonderful one year old and I am so proud of him. He has fought and fought for his little life and brought joy to even the most hardened of hearts. I am so excited to see what kind of man he will become.

I look to my son for hope for the future and I know that I will be able to trust him with everything that will come. He was and is my miracle man and I will never forget the fight to bring him into this world.

He was so sick on the day of his birth, but now is healthy Praise God.

Remember when girls felt forced to give their child up for adoption? Things are better now, they just feel forced to KILL.

Words can not express my disgust upon reading the most recent planned parenthood article (ok Im a masochist!) We kill for money inc.!

It is lamenting the poor girls of the 50's who got pregnant and felt they had no choice but to give away their newborn children. Most of these women felt very sad and very lost after giving away their child. If only abortion was there, why then these women could have KILLED their children. We all know that killing your child is much easier than giving it away to adoption and has no chance of mental scaring.

Seriously Planned Parenthood, do you really think that women who bemoan their adoption decisions would be happier if they felt trapped into an abortion? It is incredible you do not see the connection between the "coerced adoptions" of yesteryear with the "coerced abortions" of today.

apparently in 50 years you will be writing an article about the horrors of the "poor girls who felt trapped into an abortion" Somehow I bet their bleeding heart stops where their pocket book starts.

Premarital sex

I'm going to step on a few toes and possibly be accused of being a hypocrite but I don't care.

Premarital sex is not good. It isn't healthy, it isn't love affirming and it isn't something that should be celebrated.

Our society teaches that marriage before 30 is a sin but sex at 14 is a right. This warped thinking has convoluted our societal morals and made premarital sex as common as a date for icecream. (Who am I kidding, it's more common.)

I bought right in to the "free sex" craze and lost my virginity in highschool to a person who I can now only assume hates me. I did not save myself for my husband and he feels like I cheated on him with every partner who came before him. The feminists scream "misogynist!" at such feelings, but my husband has every right to feel them. My premarital promiscuity has hurt our marriage.

I am horrified that the "solution" to stopping unplanned pregnancies is birth control not self control. Birth control does not strengthen a relationship, nor does it allow for the bonding of sex to occur. It deviates from the act of full abandon with the one that God has made for you, and replaces it with cheap entertainment.

I hate that it is considered "common ground" to support birth control. Yes, I would theoretically rather people who have sex like monkeys to not copulate and kill but the reality is this reckless abandon encourages more abortions.

Planned Parenthood likes to pretend that girls don't know or don't have access to birth control but if they did they would live happy, healthy, baby free lives. I don't know where planned parenthood gets their information, but I don't know a single 15 year old who doesn't know about the full range of birthcontrol and abortive options. If children are taught about AIDS after learning their ABC's in kindergarten, I highly doubt they are unaware of where babies come from by the time they reach reproducive age.

Of course, girls at 15 are far less prepared to be wives or mothers today than they were a hundred years ago. Let's be honest, today's 30 year olds aren't prepared for that job. Our society shuns motherhood, belittles a healthy marriage, and most disturbingly, has replaced the love and communion of sex with a cheap trick.

Birth control is not the answer. It is just another facet of the problem. Until our society begins to realize that we are killing the homes of our nation, we will continue to see mothers setting up their children to be killed while fathers commission the hit man.

Jordan says "it's done"

Jordan just commented in Lydia's livejouranal that "it's done". Pray for them and their child.

Families who WANT to adopt a special needs child

I am posting the link to a website dedicated to helping special needs children(born or not) and parents looking to adopt special needs children. 90% of parents who receive poor prenatal diagnosis abort. I believe if more knew that there were people waiting to adopt their child they would be more likely to choose life.

The website is CHASK and I encourage everyone to look into it.

Fasting and Praying for Lydia

I'm sure all of you have heard of Lydia by now. Today is the day she is scheduled to have her abortion. I am fasting and praying that her mind can be changed(her heart is already broken and longing for her child). I encourage everyone to do the same.

Also, pray for her boyfriend. I know that there is a bit of animosity towards him, but he is scared and hurt as well and needs our prayers to help him to stand up and be a man for Lydia.

Motherhood

My husband's wonderful family came to Texas this weekend for his brother's wedding. His cousin and her husband and children stayed with us along with 2 others. Oliver's cousin Cassie gave me a wonderful magazine on being a Christian mother and wife and I'd love to share it with all of you. It is a bit extreme at times, but very sweet(and VERY politically incorrect...Militant feminists would not approve). It's called above rubies and their website is www.aboverubies.org

defiantly a great magazine for first time mothers, experienced mothers, and especially mothers who are homeschooling. I'm so glad she introduced me to these wonderful magazines!