Susan B. Anthony refused to pay a fine for voting because in the 1800s United States law prohibited women from voting. Anthony did the right thing. In 1920 American women secured the right to vote.
Jeremiah 1:11 Amplified Bible says, "Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch or shoot of an almond tree [the emblem of alertness and activity, blossoming in late winter]." Women have gone beyond the right to vote and are now pursuing global equality and freedom. In 1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly. Today Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the eldest of eight children, a mother of four children and an anti-apartheid activist, is the head of the African Union which is focusing on an African renaissance of growth, peace, stability and development.
Being pro-woman is not being anti-man. Galatians 3:27-29 New Living Translation Bible says, "And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you."
God promised Abraham that he would be blessed, be a blessing to others and would have an abundance of descendants. However, some people hate males and females. In China since 1971 336 million unborn girls and unborn boys have lost their lives through abortion and 222 men and women have been sterilized. Many of these abortions and sterilizations are forced. A ChinaAid News March 24, 2013, "With ChinaAid's Help, Two Victims of China's One-Child Policy Granted UNHCR Refugee Status" article reports that in 1995, when Guo Yanling was eight months pregnant, she was forced to have an abortion. In 1999, she was forcibly sterilized. In 2006, she was imprisoned for not being able to pay a fine for having more than one child. The Chinese government also refused to issue household registrations to her and to her husband, Du Yiliang's, three children without which they are unable to attend school or receive government benefits. Guo Yanling's and Du Yiliang's abortion, sterilization, educational and economic terror experience is typical in China. What isn't nearly as typical is that with ChinaAid’s help, Guo Yanling and Du Yiliang have been granted refugee status by the UN High Commission on Refugees and are living in Thailand.
In America unborn baby boys and unborn baby girls had their right to life stolen by the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.
While America has many Christians and Jews, America has a persistent problem in ensuring the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. The 1927 US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell ruled that forced sterilization of people with disabilities was not a violation of their constitutional rights. By the 1970s more than 60,000 disabled people were sterilized without their consent.
We need to fully defeat the idea that only certain people can contribute to society and are entitled to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Former Mexican President Benito Juarez said, "El respecto ajeno es la paz" (The respect for the rights of others is peace.") Christian Minister and Civil Rights Activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God's universe is made; this is the way it is structured."
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Do Fathers Have a Say in Abortion and Frozen Embryos?
Scientifically human life begins when sperm and egg unite. Yet the 1991 Pennsylvania abortion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, left the decision of whether to have an abortion entirely up to the woman. In cases involving frozen embryos, judges have given equal weight to the father's point of view. Consequently, when a pregnant woman wants an abortion at any stage in the nine-months of pregnancy the father has no say in the decision to have or not to have an abortion. However, if a woman wants to become pregnant with frozen embryos and her ex-husband opposes the decision, he almost always has a say in the decision.
Even though the law denies fathers legal rights in the abortion-decision-making process, fathers are obviously involved in the creation of new human life. Vincent M. Rue, Ph.D., writes in his article, ""The Hollow Men": Male Grief & Trauma Following Abortion," "Men’s responses to abortion are varied, like men themselves. How abortion impacts men is complicated by the decision-making that precedes the abortion. Prior to a woman aborting her child, there are at least seven scenarios of male involvement: (1) he does not know she is pregnant and she aborts without his knowledge; (2) he opposes the abortion and says so openly; (3) he knows about the pregnancy but hides his true feelings or beliefs against abortion from the woman, out of his attempt to “love” her and affirm her rights over her body; (4) he is ambivalent about abortion and simply goes along with his partner’s decision to abort; (5) he supports and encourages her decision to abort; (6) he pressures her to abort, even threatening to leave her if she doesn’t; or (7) he abandons her physically and emotionally and refuses any responsibility for her or her choices."
Rock star Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith writes in his autobiography, Walk This Way, about his abortion experience, “It was a big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. … You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”
Tamrat Gebere, an Ethiopian immigrant to Canada, admitted in a 911 call to killing Aster Kassa in July of 2010. Gebrere allegedly stabbed Kassa 53 times. The couple had a long history of domestic violence which peaked when Kassa told Gebere she was pregnant in 2009. In court testimony Gebere is said to have pressured Kassa to have an abortion, but she refused. On Valentine’s Day of 2009 Kassa gave birth to a girl. Please leave an on-line comment sharing studies linking abortion and domestic violence.
Dr. Theresa Burke, psychologist, author, and founder of the Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries for post-abortive women and men, told Life News in the January 28, 2011, article, "Women Who Had Abortions: Latest Mental Health Study Bogus", “I’ve spent the last 25 years counseling women whose hearts and minds have been fractured by abortion.” Burke said, “For many women, the traumatic nature of their abortion is not fully released until some subsequent event triggers a fuller understanding of everything that has happened."
Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision which ushered in legal abortion for all three trimesters of pregnancy, was 21-years-old, carrying an unplanned pregnancy, already had one child and was trying to get a divorce. She and her lawyer, Sarah Weddington, lied by saying that she was raped. While she never did have the abortion, Texas' pro-life abortion law was invalidated along with the laws in America prohibiting abortion.
McCorvey's and Weddington's lie has made the most dangerous place for the unborn in his or her's mother's womb! In the January 2011 document, “Abortion Statistics: United States Data and Trends,” National Right to Life Committee Education Director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon estimates that there have been 54,559,615 abortions since the January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion based on data from both the Centers for Disease Control and the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm. The analysis also found that the best estimate for the current number of annual abortions in the United States — involving both the surgical abortion procedure as well as the abortion drug RU 486 — is 1.2 million. Adding another year of 1.2 million abortions to the 2011 total National Right to Life estimated based on Guttmacher and CDC figures, America has seen 55,772.015 abortions since Roe v. Wade.
Another way to look at the statistics is to say that in America every 30 seconds a baby loses his or her life through abortion. Frances Kissling, a long-time pro-choice advocate and former president of Catholics for Choice, told Time Magazine in the January 14, 2013, article "What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They've been losing ever since," "When people hear us say abortion is just another medical procedure, they react with shock . . . Abortion is not like having your tooth pulled or having your appendix out. It involves the termination of an early form of human life. That deserves some gravitas."
God says in Exodus 20:13 King James Version Bible, "Thou shalt not kill." God doesn't qualify His commandment based on age.
Alveda King, pastoral associate and director of the African-American outreach for Priests for Life and niece of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., said during her talk, "How Can the Dream Survive?" for Notre Dame High School students in September 2011 that making life choices that don't include abortion is crucial to carrying out the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of January 1973 made it possible for women to choose to abort their babies and violate their babies' civil rights. Alveda said, "A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby is not her body;" "Where's the lawyer for the baby? How can the dream survive if we murder the children?"
On Christmas of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached the following words: "Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…Man is more than a tiny vagary of whirling electrons or a wisp of smoke from a limitless smoldering. Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won't exploit people, we won't trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won't kill anybody."
Please leave an on-line comment regarding American law as it relates to abortion and frozen embryos. Please also leave comments regarding abortion-decision making.
Even though the law denies fathers legal rights in the abortion-decision-making process, fathers are obviously involved in the creation of new human life. Vincent M. Rue, Ph.D., writes in his article, ""The Hollow Men": Male Grief & Trauma Following Abortion," "Men’s responses to abortion are varied, like men themselves. How abortion impacts men is complicated by the decision-making that precedes the abortion. Prior to a woman aborting her child, there are at least seven scenarios of male involvement: (1) he does not know she is pregnant and she aborts without his knowledge; (2) he opposes the abortion and says so openly; (3) he knows about the pregnancy but hides his true feelings or beliefs against abortion from the woman, out of his attempt to “love” her and affirm her rights over her body; (4) he is ambivalent about abortion and simply goes along with his partner’s decision to abort; (5) he supports and encourages her decision to abort; (6) he pressures her to abort, even threatening to leave her if she doesn’t; or (7) he abandons her physically and emotionally and refuses any responsibility for her or her choices."
Rock star Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith writes in his autobiography, Walk This Way, about his abortion experience, “It was a big crisis. It’s a major thing when you’re growing something with a woman, but they convinced us that it would never work out and would ruin our lives. … You go to the doctor and they put the needle in her belly and they squeeze the stuff in and you watch. And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I’m going, Jesus, what have I done?”
Tamrat Gebere, an Ethiopian immigrant to Canada, admitted in a 911 call to killing Aster Kassa in July of 2010. Gebrere allegedly stabbed Kassa 53 times. The couple had a long history of domestic violence which peaked when Kassa told Gebere she was pregnant in 2009. In court testimony Gebere is said to have pressured Kassa to have an abortion, but she refused. On Valentine’s Day of 2009 Kassa gave birth to a girl. Please leave an on-line comment sharing studies linking abortion and domestic violence.
Dr. Theresa Burke, psychologist, author, and founder of the Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries for post-abortive women and men, told Life News in the January 28, 2011, article, "Women Who Had Abortions: Latest Mental Health Study Bogus", “I’ve spent the last 25 years counseling women whose hearts and minds have been fractured by abortion.” Burke said, “For many women, the traumatic nature of their abortion is not fully released until some subsequent event triggers a fuller understanding of everything that has happened."
Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision which ushered in legal abortion for all three trimesters of pregnancy, was 21-years-old, carrying an unplanned pregnancy, already had one child and was trying to get a divorce. She and her lawyer, Sarah Weddington, lied by saying that she was raped. While she never did have the abortion, Texas' pro-life abortion law was invalidated along with the laws in America prohibiting abortion.
McCorvey's and Weddington's lie has made the most dangerous place for the unborn in his or her's mother's womb! In the January 2011 document, “Abortion Statistics: United States Data and Trends,” National Right to Life Committee Education Director Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon estimates that there have been 54,559,615 abortions since the January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion based on data from both the Centers for Disease Control and the Guttmacher Institute, a former Planned Parenthood research arm. The analysis also found that the best estimate for the current number of annual abortions in the United States — involving both the surgical abortion procedure as well as the abortion drug RU 486 — is 1.2 million. Adding another year of 1.2 million abortions to the 2011 total National Right to Life estimated based on Guttmacher and CDC figures, America has seen 55,772.015 abortions since Roe v. Wade.
Another way to look at the statistics is to say that in America every 30 seconds a baby loses his or her life through abortion. Frances Kissling, a long-time pro-choice advocate and former president of Catholics for Choice, told Time Magazine in the January 14, 2013, article "What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They've been losing ever since," "When people hear us say abortion is just another medical procedure, they react with shock . . . Abortion is not like having your tooth pulled or having your appendix out. It involves the termination of an early form of human life. That deserves some gravitas."
God says in Exodus 20:13 King James Version Bible, "Thou shalt not kill." God doesn't qualify His commandment based on age.
Alveda King, pastoral associate and director of the African-American outreach for Priests for Life and niece of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., said during her talk, "How Can the Dream Survive?" for Notre Dame High School students in September 2011 that making life choices that don't include abortion is crucial to carrying out the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision of January 1973 made it possible for women to choose to abort their babies and violate their babies' civil rights. Alveda said, "A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby is not her body;" "Where's the lawyer for the baby? How can the dream survive if we murder the children?"
On Christmas of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached the following words: "Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…Man is more than a tiny vagary of whirling electrons or a wisp of smoke from a limitless smoldering. Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won't exploit people, we won't trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won't kill anybody."
Please leave an on-line comment regarding American law as it relates to abortion and frozen embryos. Please also leave comments regarding abortion-decision making.
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