Truth And Reconciliation Needed, Part 13

She experienced evil. She fought evil. Evil was not erased immediately. She kept on fighting to possess the good and enjoyable life that God promises to His believers.

She is Elaine Riddick. Riddick was raped by a neighbor at the age of 13 who threatened to kill her. Riddick was also raped by North Carolina state who sterilized her without her consent while she at age 14 in 1968 was giving birth to her son conceived through rape. Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzYQLHHCxq8 of a CNN interview with Elaine Riddick.

Riddick filed a lawsuit in 1974. The Supreme Court rejected her lawsuit. Riddick didn't quit. She kept fighting. Riddick says in the CNN interview, "Well I think for me ... I had to recover because I'm on a mission, and sometimes we can't look at our self. Sometimes we have to do God's will, and God's will is for us to be happy and you know to go on with life. Pick yourself up, and go on. You can't look at what society has dealt you. You just gotta to think about what you mean to yourself. What am I worth? Am I meant to sit here and just take this? No, you don't sit there. You don't lay down and take anything." Galatians 6:9-10 Amplified Bible says, "And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. So then, as occasion and opportunity open up to us, let us do good [morally] to all people [not only being useful or profitable to them, but also doing what is for their spiritual good and advantage]. Be mindful to be a blessing, especially to those of the household of faith [those who belong to God’s family with you, the believers]."

Don't interpret the Word of God with a mindset of shame and condemnation. God is for people. His Word is to empower Christians and to inspire nonbelievers to receive an empowering, eternal relationship with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit.

Temporary setbacks do not have to be our destiny. Elaine Riddick did not start out as a warrior queen. She says in the CNN interview about her response to finding out she had been forcibly sterilized by North Carolina state, "After I found out that it had happened to me I was totally humiliated, degraded, and it was a big insult. You know I became a hermit. I didn't want to deal with people. I didn't want to live in society. I just couldn't believe that my government would do something like this to me."

Joyce Meyer writes in her book Joy redefined Loving Others, "It is impossible for you to be happy if you don't get your mind off yourself and start reaching out to help someone else."

Elaine Riddick became an advocate for people forcibly sterilized by North Carolina, for unborn boys and unborn girls killed by abortion, for women's health and for the disabled. She says about her state-sponsored sterilization, "You will never recover from this because it's always there. Every time you wake up when you go to sleep it's there. You think about how you've been treated in this country here. You think about--well me myself I had been so severely damaged until I was on Prozac, Serentil and Haldol, and that's how I coped. I had to wean myself off these things in order for me to cope, and I have to cope, and I have to go on." Now more than four decades after her state-sponsored sterilization, North Carolina is offering compensation to those forcibly sterilized.

Are you a victim of American state-sponsored sterilization? A Persian proverb says, "Opportunity should be grabbed." In North Carolina $10 million is to be split equally among those sterilized through the North Carolina Eugenics Board. Compensation claims must be filed by June 30, 2014, for victims to receive a one-time payment to be distributed June 30, 2015. North Carolina had a eugenics board from the 1930s through the 1970s through which social workers, family and others arranged for people to be sterilized. If you think you are one of the victims, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/FirstPartyVerificationform.pdf. Sometimes people are not able to speak up for themselves and need advocates. If you are not a victim, but are an advocate for a victim, you can ask the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation to check the North Carolina Eugenic Board's records by completing and mailing them this form with required attachments: http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/documents/ThirdPartyVerificationform.pdf. These forms are verification and not a guarantee of compensation.

In South Africa Desmond Tutu retired as archbishop to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that exposed many of the evils done under apartheid, so that evil may be stopped and good promoted. North Carolina is not the only American state that did state-sponsored sterilizations.

Cindy Trimm says in her book Commanding Your Morning, "Think big and think detailed!.... Become a visionary--be creative. Take the limits off your mind! Think beyond where you are.... Ask God to enlarge your capacity for thinking, to take the limits off." Other American states besides North Carolina and other nations need to apologize to, financially compensate victims and erase all forms of "family planning" evil.

The door to evil has not been closed. US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in the 1927 Buck v. Bell case upholding American state-sponsored sterilization, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Like Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in America Buck v. Bell has not been overturned.

A Korean proverb says, "The fortunate man has bread and friends." If you have filed a North Carolina verification form, please share your experience and inspire others. Write to:

Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195

Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.

Margaret Sanger of the American Birth Control League which became Planned Parenthood says in an interview with Mike Wallace, "I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have a disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sort of things, just marked when they are born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit" (Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsrOPDdbTzM.)

Margaret Sanger's thinking is against the human race and in favor of abortion, sterilization, infanticide and "family planning" targeted toward the disabled, low-income persons and those not of certain European heritage. Her thinking is prevalent today. Watch this Maafa 21 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02t3Wqg-4Iw and read this fact sheet by The Rebecca Project for Human Rights http://www.rebeccaproject.org/images/stories/Fact%20Sheets/depo-provera-deadly-reproductive-violence-rebecca-project-for-human-rights-2013.pdf.

Do you have an abortion, sterilization, infanticide, Depo Provera, Norplant or other "family planning" experience to share? Write to:

Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195

Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.

Write about sterilization abortion, infanticide, "family planning" and the loving, Biblical rejection of Margaret Sanger style sexuality. Because God loves us, God does not will for us to have partner sex outside of marriage. Because God loves us, God wills for us to enjoy sex inside of marriage. God does not want any of us to be afraid of sexuality and try to stomp it out. God created sexuality. What God creates is good, beautiful and excellent provided we participate in God's creation according to His design. God designed sex to bond marital couples. Sometimes sex leads to reproduction. Read my article "Fearless Sex" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2013/01/fearless-sex.html.

Christopher Yuan says he was strangled by a boyfriend/lover in his book Out Of A Far Country A gay son's journey to God. A broken mother's search for hope., and he continued to stay in the relationship for a while. How did he escape sexual slavery? Christoper Yuan says in this speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEDG2xxDGAg, "I didn't leave homosexuality because I thought it was so bad...I left homosexuality because I found something better, and His name is Jesus."

Have you come out of sexual slavery? Write to:

Michele F. Jackson
P. O. Box 2106
Woodbridge, Virginia 22195

Follow Michele F. Jackson on http://www.Twitter.com/Michelelove30.

In this interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doiWP2SQx2E Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, talks about his nephew, Chen Kegui who is the husband of Liu Fang and father of a young son named Chen Fubin, and he notes that Chen Kegui was put in the same jail shortly after Chen Guangcheng escaped China that Chinese authorities put Chen Guangcheng in after he filed a lawsuit against forced abortion and forced sterilization. Chen Guangcheng also encourages people to blog in this interview. "Numerous forced-abortion tragedies occur in China every single day," says Pastor Bob Fu, president of China Aid Association. A woman subjected to a forced abortion at nine months of pregnancy shares her story here http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/blog/?p=1327.

China has implemented a new anti-rumor law. Read here http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/access-09102013102331.html for more information about the new anti-rumor law which has impacted Chen Guangfu, Chen Guangcheng's elder brother, and others. Don't be intimidated. Ephesians 4:14-15 Amplified Bible says, "So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One)."

God wants us to live the best possible life. Deuteronomy 28:13 Amplified Bible says, "And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them."

When Rafael, who has autism, and I go to restaurants we don't usually see persons with autism, Down's Syndrome, intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy and other disabilities. Increasing the wage of service providers to the disabled would help the disabled enjoy restaurants with wait staff. Deanna Copeland is a service provider for Andrea Hood and only makes $1,400.00 monthly. Read their story here http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/disability_rights_advocates_fa.html.

Also as a society we need to embrace the behavior of people who act differently. Rafael eats with his hands. People in Ethiopia and other cultures eat with their hands. Read my article "Food, Love and Marriage" at http://michelefjackson.blogspot.com/2012/07/food-love-and-marriage.html.

Some don't want the disabled and others to have the best possible life. Don't let threats or pressure stop you from standing up for what's right. You are lovable to God, and God wants you to love yourself and other people. " Amor primero, amor postrero" ("Love, first and last").