Saturday, November 16, 2013
Abortion
The abortion accounts of 26 women weep pain and regret and remorse
By Dave Andrusko
When there is even an ounce of honesty in them, any series of accounts of women who have undergone abortions will accomplish exactly the opposite of what proponents of “telling your story” believe it will. Instead of “de-stigmatizing” abortion, it makes the average person even more skeptical of abortion, even more convinced it is a horrible “choice.”
The latest example is a story in New York magazine which provided thumbnail sketches of the reasons 26 women had their abortion or abortions (see n0ymag.com/news/features/abortion-stories-2013-11/?mid=nymag_press).
The overwhelming takeaway I had was sorrow. Abortion’s ugly truth is everywhere.
I was very much impressed with the introduction written by Meaghan Winter. Take this paragraph, for example:
“And yet abortion is something we tend to be more comfortable discussing as an abstraction; the feelings it provokes are too complicated to face in all their particularities. Which is perhaps why, even in doggedly liberal parts of the country, very few people talk openly about the experience, leaving the reality of abortion, and the emotions that accompany it, a silent witness in our political discourse. Even now, four decades after Roe, some of the women we spoke with would talk only if we didn’t print their real names.”
Again, I understand that the whole point is that the more often women tell their stories, in theory the less “stigma” will attach. But it’s not stigma that is running roughshod in many of their hearts but deep, DEEP regret. Which is why if you take the time to read all the stories, you come away aching for almost all of these women.
I will just cite three stories + a closing quotation from a fourth(but please read them all atnymag.com/news/features/abortion-stories-2013-11/?mid=nymag_press).
Right out of the box is “Nicole, 19.”
Her story is so illustrative. She’s convinced herself that by aborting their baby, it will show her boyfriend how much she loved him. (She obviously doesn’t want the abortion.)
He goes back and forth—and forth and back. Nicole describes herself as “hysterical, and he said, ‘Okay, you don’t have to go back’ [to the abortion clinic]. I was so happy. Then he said, ‘We drove all this way. Stop crying, act like a woman.’”
She’s tired and gives in. And then some of the most remarkable 62 words you are likely ever to read:
“When I had the ultrasound, I asked for the picture and a nurse said, ‘Seriously?’ A month later, he said he regretted it too. When I cry about it, I cry alone. He thinks it would make me sad to talk about, but I don’t want our baby to think we forgot. I’ve never heard of anybody else having an abortion here.”
“But I don’t want our baby to think we forgot.” My eyes welled up the first time I read this, and they are again, now.
Another woman (“Red, 30”) tells of not aborting her first unplanned pregnancy (“I decided I couldn’t abort a baby based on a stupid decision I made”). The next time she does abort, even though the boyfriend wanted to get married. (She doesn’t want to be “tied” to him “forever.”) So she and her mother go to Planned Parenthood.
She writes,
“I told them I already had a baby. The doctor acted like it was assembly-line work. I told Steve I miscarried. We dated another year. The secret was devastating. People might be more understanding if I’d had an abortion when I was living in a car in an abusive relationship. This time, I was on birth control, with a full-time job, a boyfriend. People might think I should’ve kept it, but I couldn’t.”
One other story (”Heather, 32”). She’d already had two unplanned pregnancies “and it never, ever, occurred to me to terminate those pregnancies.” Now she’s had two abortions. Heather writes of the first abortion that
“I just had to shut my conscience down. The doctor was grotesque. He whistled show tunes. I could hear the vacuum sucking out the fetus alongside his whistling. When I hear show tunes now, I shudder. Later, he lost his license.”
Then
“A few months ago, I got pregnant again. My in-laws have been helping us out financially, so we have no choice but to involve them in our decisions. They gave us $500 cash to bring to the clinic. I felt very forced. I felt like I was required to have an abortion to provide for my current family. Money help is a manipulation. I’m crazy in love with my daughters—imagine if I did that to them? It’s almost too much to open the door of guilt and shame because it’ll all overcome me. In the waiting room, there was a dead silence that’s hard to describe. Everyone was holding in her emotions to a heartbreaking degree.”
Heather ends,
“Truly pro-life people should go light on the judgment, because shame motivates abortions.”
Pro-lifers already do go “light on the judgment.” The pro-lifers I know—and I know many—are a tender-hearted lot. More than a few have experienced an abortion in their extended families.
But whether or not they have a personal experience, they have the same objective: to help a post-abortive woman heal, not to hurt her. How could going “heavy” on the judgment possibly help anyone or accomplish anything?!
Over and over again, the stories weep pain and regret and remorse. (The experience of one woman who had a chemical abortion will be part of a post I am writing for tomorrow about a story written by a pro-abortionist about RU-486: “Why the Abortion Pill Didn’t Change Everything.”)
My Pledge
My
Common Core Pledge
We the undersigned oppose the call for a nationalized
curriculum in our public schools. We
oppose ongoing effort to install Common Core curriculum by federally funded
agencies and think all such agencies should cease. We oppose a centrally controlled curriculum
for every K-12 student but support the use of curriculum approved at the local
school board and family level only.
We agree that expectations for all children should be high
and similar. We do not agree that one
size fits all. We believe the best educational
material comes before student
assessments develop, not the other way around.
We are committed to improving our countries schools starting in our
homes and at the local community level.
We believe the notion of one national curriculum is
wrongheaded for the following reasons.
1. It is not the law of the land
as propaganda from global elitists imply.
There is no constitutional or statutory basis for it. If this concept
were actually right, we still oppose curriculum concocted by a self-selected
group behind closed doors with no accountability to the public. 2. No
consistent evidence shows that the common core curriculum leads to high
academic achievement. 3. The national
standards used to form the common core curriculum are inadequate and their
definition of “college readiness” is below the requirements of most four-year
State colleges. 4. There is no body of
evidence for a “best” design for curriculum in any subject. In fact, if all students used only one curriculum,
having no other choice, we could not know what is best. 5. We
lack all justifiable evidence that only one guideline for all public education
is right. There are too many variables
and needs among our children to allow big government to constrain the diversity
of material used in their educational growth.
X________________________
Signed with my heart resolved before God and the entire
world around me,
I will fight Common Core TO THE CORE .
If you want to take back your country, but do not know where
to start, start here.
Feel free to copy this and pass it on to friend and foe
alike. Let everyone know.
Give it to a teacher, a school administrator, a board
member, or a politician.
Friday, November 15, 2013
TN Student Speaks Out About Common Core, Teacher Evaluations, and Educat...
Take five minutes to listen to this articulate young man and his very valid points about what is happening today in the public education system in America.
END ENDA
The following information has been submitted:
Name: Pastor Larry J Killion
Address: 8423 S. G. St.,
City/State/Zip: Tacoma, WA 98444 6316
E-mail: tacwash@yahoo.com
Telephone: 253-537-0129
Issue: OTHER
Message Subject: Traditional Values
Message Text:
Hon. Derek Kilmer U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Kilmer: I demand that you oppose ENDA, and protect the religious rights of ordinary Americans. The powerful homosexual lobby wants this bill to become law, so that they can sue, and the government can prosecute, people who don't believe in the "gay lifestyle." The claimed protections for religious Americans and organizations are a joke. And the radical left has already said that they'll either ignore or repeal them once ENDA is the law of the land. This is not a civil rights bill. It is an attempt to use the government to attack traditional values, and it must be defeated! Please vote no on ENDA! Sincerely, Larry J. Killion
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Name: Pastor Larry J Killion
Address: 8423 S. G. St.,
City/State/Zip: Tacoma, WA 98444 6316
E-mail: tacwash@yahoo.com
Telephone: 253-537-0129
Issue: OTHER
Message Subject: Traditional Values
Message Text:
Hon. Derek Kilmer U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Congressman Kilmer: I demand that you oppose ENDA, and protect the religious rights of ordinary Americans. The powerful homosexual lobby wants this bill to become law, so that they can sue, and the government can prosecute, people who don't believe in the "gay lifestyle." The claimed protections for religious Americans and organizations are a joke. And the radical left has already said that they'll either ignore or repeal them once ENDA is the law of the land. This is not a civil rights bill. It is an attempt to use the government to attack traditional values, and it must be defeated! Please vote no on ENDA! Sincerely, Larry J. Killion
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
HR3350
House of Representatives to vote on this tomorrow...The following information has been submitted:
Name: Pastor Larry J Killion
Address: 8423 S. G. St.,
City/State/Zip: Tacoma, WA 98444 6316
E-mail: tacwash@yahoo.com
Telephone: 253-537-0129
Issue: HEALTH
Message Subject: HR3350
Message Text:
Rep. Derek Kilmer Washington, D.C. In an address to the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009, President Barack Obama made the following statement regarding health insurance reform: "That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." Video evidence shows that Obama had made these kinds of promises at least twenty-nine times over the past five years. Despite all of these pledges, however, it turns out that on January 1, 2014 many individuals will in fact be unable to keep their health care plans due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
This stated, I ask you to force Obama to keep his promise to the American people and sponsor the "Keep Your Health Plan Act" to allow those with health insurance to keep their plans as-is. As an opponent of Obamacare, I ask that you get behind this legislation and urge your colleagues to do the same. The only way to restore health care freedom is to dismantle the unconstitutional health care law and get the federal government out of the market.
I am watching. Defend the Constitution always,
Larry J. Killion
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Pro-LIFE News
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The National Association of Pro-life Nurses announces its 2013-2014 scholarship for nursing students! Any pro-life nursing student currently enrolled in a nursing program is eligible to apply. For further details, go to Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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Take Action Now!
Demand that the U.S. Senate vote on protecting pain-capable unborn children! WASHINGTON (November 12, 2013) -- At a press conference on November 7, I joined U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in announcing introduction of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 1670) in the U.S. Senate.
This
bill would protect unborn children from abortion, nationwide, beginning
at
20 weeks fetal age, based on scientific evidence that by this stage of development (if not earlier), the baby will experience excruciating pain when subjected to typical late abortion procedures. This is the most important single pro-life bill to be proposed in Congress since the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was enacted ten years ago.
This
new bill (S. 1670) is based directly on the model legislation crafted
by National
Right to Life, which has already been enacted in 10 states. With strong backing from National Right to Life, a virtually identical bill (H.R. 1797) has already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, it is time to demand that the U.S. Senate vote on this landmark legislation. But that won't happen without your help.
Thirty-six (36) senators have already joined Senator Graham as co-sponsors
of the new legislation. Please act today! Click here to go to the National Right to Life Legislative Action Center. There you will find tools that make it easy for you to send e-mail messages to your two U.S. senators in just a couple of minutes. You will be shown a suggested message, which you can modify or replace as you see fit.
If
your senators have already cosponsored S. 1670, thank them. If they
have not
done so, urge them to sign on as cosponsors immediately. In either case, please express your strong support for S. 1670 -- and ask them to urge Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv.) to allow an early Senate vote on S. 1670.
To
see a video of National Right to Life Senior Legislative Counsel Susan
T.
Muskett go toe-to-toe with two critics of the bill on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" (November 8), click here. The forces that are opposed to legal protections for unborn children have financial resources that are far greater than ours. Already, the radical pro- abortion group "NARAL Pro-Choice America" is running a TV ad against our bill! If you can possibly help us in our campaign to bring this issue before the American people and force the Senate to vote on it, please use the "Contribute now." button below -- and I thank you.
Fighting with you to protect innocent human lives,
 Carol Tobias National Right to Life President
 National Right to Life 512 10th St. NW, Washington, DC 20004 202.626.8800 - www.nrlc.org |
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Passover.
Passover. LJK.:
Passover Exodus 12:1-12. Pray. According to one of my teachers in Bible College, this is one of the most important chapters in the Old Testament. It deals with the last of the ten plagues on Egypt...
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We had a wonderful day today in the House of the Lord. One of our out-of-state members was home for a visit and was able to take the Lords Supper with us today. (Restricted Communion) Brother Turner, our adult teacher was recovering from a cold and asked Pastor to fill in for him. Pastor read a short article from an old edition of the Berea Baptist Banner entitled, "Bed too Short and Blanket too Narrow." Audio Here
Passover Exodus 12:1-12. Pray. According to one of my teachers in Bible College, this is one of the most important chapters in the Old Testament. It deals with the last of the ten plagues on Egypt...
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We had a wonderful day today in the House of the Lord. One of our out-of-state members was home for a visit and was able to take the Lords Supper with us today. (Restricted Communion) Brother Turner, our adult teacher was recovering from a cold and asked Pastor to fill in for him. Pastor read a short article from an old edition of the Berea Baptist Banner entitled, "Bed too Short and Blanket too Narrow." Audio Here
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Friday, November 08, 2013
Iran Sanctions secretly lifted...
Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.
The
Obama administration began softening sanctions on Iran after the
election of Iran’s new president in June, months before the current
round of nuclear talks in Geneva or the historic phone call between the
two leaders in September.
While those negotiations now appear on the verge of a breakthrough the key condition for Iran—relief from crippling sanctions—began quietly and modestly five months ago.
A
review of Treasury Department notices reveals that the U.S. government
has all but stopped the financial blacklisting of entities and people
that help Iran evade international sanctions since the election of its
president, Hassan Rouhani, in June.
On Wednesday Obama said in an interview with NBC News
the negotiations in Geneva “are not about easing sanctions.” “The
negotiations taking place are about how Iran begins to meet its
international obligations and provide assurances not just to us but to
the entire world,” the president said.
But
it has also long been Obama’s strategy to squeeze Iran’s economy until
Iran would be willing to trade relief from sanctions for abandoning key
elements of its nuclear program.
One
way Obama has pressured Iran is through isolating the country’s banks
from the global financial sector, the networks that make modern
international commerce possible. This in turn has led Iran to seek out
front companies and cutouts to conduct routine international business,
such as selling its crude oil.
In
this cat and mouse game, the Treasury Department in recent years has
routinely designated new entities as violators of sanctions, forcing
Iran to adjust in turn. In the six weeks prior to the Iranian elections
in June, the Treasury Department issued seven notices of designations of
sanctions violators that included more than 100 new people, companies,
aircraft, and sea vessels.
Since June
14, however, when Rouhani was elected, the Treasury Department has only
issued two designation notices that have identified six people and four companies as violating the Iran sanctions.
When
an entity is designated as a sanctions violator it can be catastrophic.
Banks and other investors almost never take the risk of doing business
with the people and companies on a Treasury blacklist because of the
potential reputational harm and the prospect they could lose access to
U.S. financial markets.
“Sounds like Obama decided to enter the Persian nuclear bazaar to haggle with the masters of negotiation.”
A
Treasury spokesman contacted by The Daily Beast said the effectiveness
of sanctions should be measured by their results and not the number of
entities designated. (A White House spokesman declined to comment,
directing inquiries to the Treasury.) The Treasury spokesman also said
that the significant financial pressure on Iran in recent years changed
the calculus of the country’s leaders and led to the election of
Rouhani, who is a former nuclear negotiator and is considered more
moderate than his predecessor.
“In
the months since the Iranian election we have continued to pursue our
unwavering goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” the
spokesman said. “We have not let up on vigorous sanctions enforcement
one iota. This includes new designations of sanctions evaders as well as
other steps to address potential sanctions evasion.”
But
the enforcement of sanctions, experts said, is very different than the
process of designating new violators. To start, sanctions enforcement
means the levying of fines or other legal measures against those people
and entities already designated by the Treasury Department as a
violator.
The
designation process is more proactive. “The designations are important
because they identify illicit actors that are abusing the international
financial sector in addition to signaling the U.S. intention to isolate
Iran’s economy,” said Avi Jorisch, a former U.S. Treasury official who
has worked closely on Iran sanctions and has advocated for toughening
these sanctions since leaving government.
Advocates
of sanctions relief also acknowledge that the administration has
pursued a policy of quietly lessening financial pressure on Iran. They
argue that was a logical policy when married to the process of renewing
diplomatic negotiations with Iran, which according to the Wall Street Journal this week, has been going on for several months.
“Before
the election there were a lot of these designations,” said Trita Parsi,
the executive director of the National Iranian American Council, a
group that has advocated for ending sanctions on Iran since. “Their
impact was probably not decisive, but it was a way for the White House
to signal to the Iranians and Congress they were going forward with the
sanctions train.” Parsi continued: “After the election [the Obama
administration] wanted to give the opposite signal, a pause. The last
thing you would want to do is let the sanctions train go forward and
potentially scuttle an opportunity that could have been there.”
Following
the Iranian elections, there were also a lot of changes inside the
Iranian government, making the task of designating officials and
entities a bit more tricky, Parsi said. But a significant part of the
administration’s decision, in Parsi’s opinion, was the belief that
continuing a high pace of designations would “undermine the signal that
they were trying to send, that there was an opening.”
Mark
Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, an organization that has worked closely with Congress and
the administration on devising the current Iranian sanctions, said the
slow pace of designations was only one kind of sanctions relief Obama
has been offering Iran.
“For
five months, since Rouhani’s election, the United States has offered
Iran two major forms of sanctions relief,” Dubowitz said. “First there’s
been a significant slowdown in the pace of designations while the
Iranians are proliferating the number of front companies and cutouts to
bust sanctions.”
The
second kind of relief Dubowitz said the White House had offered Iran
was through its opposition to new Iran sanctions legislation supported
by both parties in Congress.
By
Dubowitz’s estimates, Iran is now selling between 150,000 and 200,000
barrels of oil per day on the black market, meaning that Iran has
profited from the illicit sale of over 35 million barrels of oil since
Rouhani took office, with little additional measures taken by the United
States to counter
it.
“Sounds
like Obama decided to enter the Persian nuclear bazaar to haggle with
the masters of negotiation and has had his head handed to him,” Dubowitz
said.
47 Bodies
47 Bodies Left in the
Wake
of Hillary Clinton
By Tami Jackson
Hillary Clinton wants to prove that 2016 will be the year of the woman — she wants to check off the last item on her power grab bucket list: Madam President.
Last month I began the
search into the well publicized list of 47 deaths, 47 bodies in the wake of
Hillary Clinton. Accidents happen. Planes
crash, people take their lives out of desperate grief and overwhelming
hopelessness. But the question we
should each ask ourselves is, what are the probabilities that such a number of
people, closely related to Hillary and Bill, many of whom harbored troublesome Clinton secrets, would die mysterious deaths?
The probabilities are not
good. Add to that the murders and even execution/hit-style murders, and this
list should make every American at least uneasy.
5000 Year Leap
NCCS has published news articles on the Biblical
Basis for the principles found in The 5000 Year Leap. Click HERE.
Basis for the principles found in The 5000 Year Leap. Click HERE.
Larry Killion's review
bookshelves: christian, conservative-american, history, politics
bookshelves: christian, conservative-american, history, politics
Read in September, 2011
The 5000 Year Leap By W. Cleon Skousen
This book was dedicated to the founding fathers of America and rightfully so. It is permeated with quotes by them regarding the establishment of the USA. The idea of the 5000 year leap has to do with the fact that according to biblical chronology, it took about that amount of time for civilized men to come up with a form of self government that is fair and equitable to all. Contrary to the historical revisionists of modern times, the quotes from the original documents of the founders show that most of them had a heart felt conviction of Christian principles and adherence to biblical teachings. It was commonly stated among the founders that the providential hand of God was influential in the construction of the constitution and the founding of the United States and their documented accounts validate that claim. The genius of the founders can be easily demonstrated. The essence of this book is to show the absolute brilliance of the constitution by showing twenty eight great ideas found in it that have changed the world.
This book was dedicated to the founding fathers of America and rightfully so. It is permeated with quotes by them regarding the establishment of the USA. The idea of the 5000 year leap has to do with the fact that according to biblical chronology, it took about that amount of time for civilized men to come up with a form of self government that is fair and equitable to all. Contrary to the historical revisionists of modern times, the quotes from the original documents of the founders show that most of them had a heart felt conviction of Christian principles and adherence to biblical teachings. It was commonly stated among the founders that the providential hand of God was influential in the construction of the constitution and the founding of the United States and their documented accounts validate that claim. The genius of the founders can be easily demonstrated. The essence of this book is to show the absolute brilliance of the constitution by showing twenty eight great ideas found in it that have changed the world.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
YAY!
We did it! Together, we have elected Jan Angel state Senator. Thank you for your efforts.
Jan’s campaign was unlike any legislative race we have ever seen in our state. After spending nearly $500,000 to defeat Rep. Angel, California billionaire Tom Steyer received a clear message that Washington votes cannot be bought.
The election of Jan Angel is a referendum from Washington voters that they are unhappy with the D.C. politics and back-breaking tax increases Governor Inslee has brought to our state capitol.
I look forward to seeing the great things Senator-elect Angel will be accomplishing in Olympia for her constituents in the 26th district.
Let’s celebrate this victory now because tomorrow we must focus our attention toward electing more Republicans at the local, state and national level.
Respectfully,
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