Marching to the Beat

Truth..

..is always there for us to see if only we are willing to see it.  If we don't want to face it, deal with it, admit, or otherwise acknowledge its existence on any given subject or issue we can simply cling to the lie and memorize all the pat and pet phrases that deny the truth and solidfy our love affair with said lie.

RU486 is an abortion drug, a two part drug, that chemically kills the unborn baby and then causes the woman's body to go into contractions to expell the dead baby.  You see, I could use the term 'fetus' which is the medical term used for the unborn and developing human being at a certain stage in its development, but since fetus has become one of the pet and pat things to say in order to deny the humanity of the fetus, I choose to say baby. 

In any case, RU486 didn't do so well in its trials but was fast tracked by the FDA and put on the market quite quickly.  The so called 'fast track' is (or was until RU486) was only used for drugs that were to be used for life threatening conditions like some cancers and AIDS related illnesses.  The FDA was obviously cowtowing to the pressure of abortion rights activists with vast amounts of political clout via money made from aborting babies as well as my tax dollars given to them via Title X appropriated funds. 

The decision, however, was wrong, because when the drug was in the testing stage there were red flag problems that were minimized and in some cases it seems like they were ignored, in order to push this drug into public availability.

Seven, count them, seven deaths can be attributed to RU486, and still it remains on the market.  The connection between these deaths (poor Holly Patterson) and RU486 is as strong, if not stronger, than the connection between the drug Vioxx and heart attacks!  I think too, (though don't quote me on this one) that there weren't as many deaths via the Vioxx as there have been with RU486.  Even if I am wrong and there are more or about the same, isn't just the loss of one person, and in such a horribly painful way as the deaths from RU486 were, worth pulling a drug, any drug, from the market so that it can ben checked out further?!?  Not, it seems, when it comes to anything related to abortion being promoted and embraced. 

The chant of pro-abortion groups 'pro-lfe it's a lie/you don't care if women die' falls flat in the face of the deaths of these women.  IF pro-abortion people were so concerned with women's lives, shouldn't they be at the head of the pack of those calling for the recall of this dangerous and deadly drug?? 

Just this week hearings were held in Congress by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Human Resources at which hard evidence was presented of the dangers of this drug.  In addition to that the FDA continued to maintain their position (even in light of the evidence against their position) of their not being 'sure' of any connection between the drug and the deaths!  Their representative testified at the same hearings this week giving evidence to those present (and to those interested in this subject-llike me) that they have no intention of pulling this drug from the market!!

The truth, however, will continue to march on and perhaps, who knows, maybe one person a day will come face to face with it, admit it, and move from the position of a blind supporter of abortion, to a truly informed person on what 'choice' really means.  In the meantime, unfortunately, more young women will have their lives changed forever via this horrible abortion method, and some will die a horribly painful death from massive infection and hemmoragic bleeding caused by RU486.

RU486...RU Crazy??

RU Crazy?

RU Crazy?

Some time back there was a public outcry regarding a medication called Vioxx.  It seems that there were deaths being attributed to the taking of this medicine; heart attack deaths.  I remember reading article after article both in the news and on the manufacturer’s, Merck’s, website.  .Immediately the FDA called for the removal of Vioxx from the market, and rightly so, the drug should not to be available while the link between it and the death of people was closely examined.

Contrast the above scenario with the drug RU486; a drug, by the way, which is a two part abortion procedure done with little to no observation by a doctor.  This drug has been directly linked to the deaths of, up until last week, at least four women!  As of last week, two more women’s deaths have been tied to this drug, but yet it remains on the market!

This is unheard of!   These last two deaths have prompted the FDA to issue a ‘warning’ concerning this medical abortion procedure.  However, the FDA already had evidence of RU486 being linked to deaths from back when this drug was being ‘tested’ and women died.  Further, after fast-tracking this drug (a procedure almost exclusively used to get drugs on the market to treat life threatening medical conditions such as AIDS and cancer) women continued to die; particularly horrible deaths too. 

With a minimum internet research time of ten to fifteen minutes I was able to find some interesting information about RU486.  For instance, this two part chemical abortion requires the second drug to expel the fetus after the first drug chemically alters the uterine lining to stop the supply of nutrients to the fetus, causing its death.  Unfortunately the first drug causes a total abortion in only 60-65% of the time, necessitating a powerful drug known as Misoprostol, whose manufacturer, Danco Labs, applied a label warning to said drug saying that they do NOT recommend it for use in chemical abortions.  They clearly acknowledge what the FDA is turning a blind eye to: the danger of RU486 to women. 

The above begs many questions, number one of which is why was this drug placed on the market when women died in the trials?  How about why would the FDA allow the fast tracking of a drug that clearly had nothing to do with saving anyone’s life?  Also, after the drug was made available and one death and then another were reported, why did the drug remain on the market?  As of the date of my posting this, two more deaths linked to RU486 have been reported, yet the drug remains on the market.

The FDA should immediately suspend the sale of this drug, just as quickly as they stopped the sale of Vioxx, in order to further investigate the untimely deaths of these women and the connection to RU486.  Their refusal to stop the sale of this drug when the deaths in the trial were reported shows a failure to do their job of protecting the American people from drugs that can kill them.  To allow it to market and to remain on the market after ever more deaths are contributed to RU486 is reprehensible!  It seems that abortion is such a politically charged issue that even the FDA runs scared at the possibility of special interests groups with big pockets and Big Media friends getting in their face over RU486.  They should do the right thing, though, regardless of what anyone would say or do.  The right thing is to withdraw this drug from the market, NOW.

Nay, Nay, Mr. Bland, Listen To What I Say! 8-)

The poor little sweeties.  Perhaps more people are beginning to care about the unborn?

Dear Editor,

This letter is in response to a recent letter submitted by Jeffrey Bland of Planned Parenthood of Greater Western New Jersey.

First off I would say that in no way does the freedom of women depend on Roe!  In fact, what Roe v. Wade has done, outside of stripping states of their individual rights and inventing a constitutional right to abort unborn children, has been to set women’s rights back on its heels!   In addition to that, Justice Blackmun, in his many writings released to the public shortly after his death, admits to towing a special interests agenda line as well as being unsure as to the actual time of ‘viability’ of the unborn child; two red flags on the validity of Roe v. Wade.

Feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony saw abortion as anti-women as well as the exploitation of the most vulnerable of our society!   Suffragist Susan B. Anthony said, “The woman is awfully guilty who commits [abortion], it will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death”.  Further, in 1873, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, “When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”  Another feminist pioneer, Alice Paul, saw abortion as the ‘ultimate exploitation of women’.

It is just a staggering thought to ponder, that since 1973, the year that Mr. Bland seems to consider celebratory, more than 20 million American women who would have begun their lives as unborn babies, moving on to being infant girls, and, following the natural flow of life, would have one day grown up to enjoy the freedoms those early feminists worked so hard to secure for them, would instead end up as medical waste.

The segment of society that opposes abortion is not ‘anti-choice’ as Mr. Bland’s article states, but rather, they are ‘pro-life’ and most definitely pro-choice.  When one considers the medical facts that the unborn child is an entirely separate entity from its mother-see scientific fact of each person’s unique DNA as well as the unborn’s possession of their own blood supply-one must realize that to have an honest debate on abortion, the humanity of the unborn needs to be addressed.   What is revealed when one does consider such things is that pro-‘choice’ really is NO choice for the unborn.

Further, Planned Parenthood has a financial stake in the abortion business, for that is what it is from their end.  It has nothing to do with caring about me or any other woman, though we could and would find many well intentioned, uninformed, and in denial women, who work for the various Planned Parenthood offices across the nation, and/or support the right to abort the unborn, who think that it does.   

In fact, Planned Parenthood is the number one provider of abortions here in the USA and more than likely throughout the entire world via various population control/women’s ‘health’ care doors.  We here in America have a hand in helping the ‘not for profit’ PP to rake in millions of dollars profit.  How does the figure $350 million dollars in surplus sit with you all?  And that is in the last seven years only!  And our government has increased funding to this organization with over $1.49 billion in government grants in the last seven fiscal years!! 

There is no way that our society will escape the consequences of this assault on the innocent unborn child, and in fact, we already are reaping from sowing a culture of death.  All one has to do is look at Social Security’s shortfall.  It is not in trouble just due to mismanagement by Congress in budgeting.  Part of the problem has to do with population replacement.  Our society lacks millions of its citizens and we are paying the price (and will continue to do so) whether folks want to admit it or not in their quest to continue justifying abortion on demand.

Another ‘available to the public’ fact is the disproportionate number of abortions that the African American community experiences.   For instance, African American’s make up 12% of the population in the United States, but black women get 32 percent of the abortions!!  Without abortion cutting away over forty million people, the African American community/population would today be 35 percent larger than it is!

I could share even more information with you readers via this venue that would shock, disappoint or annoy, all info taken from public record, up to and including Margaret Sanger’s reason for beginning the birth control push in our nation, but I figure if people are interested they will go and check it out for themselves as I once did so many years ago when I began questioning just what the ‘right’ to abortion did for me as a woman, at their local library, too!

No, Mr. Bland, women’s ‘freedom’ does not depend on Roe remaining law, but women’s freedom depends on women recognizing the plague abortion has been on our society and worse, how abortion has encouraged we women to indulge our most selfish of selfish desires, and then we should be about rejecting it and all that it represents.

For there is great truth in the words of Mother Teresa, who wrote:

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you can live as you wish.

What Did You Say, Mr. Bland?

Here is a copy of a letter to the editor written by a PP CEO.

'Women's Freedom Depends on Roe'

To the Editor:

It's been 33 years since Roe v. Wade legalized aboriton nationwide.

On January 22, 1973, a young lawyer named Sarah Weddington successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court. But the ink wasn't dry on the decision before the anti-choice forces began attempting to eviscerate Roe and all that the monumnetal decision stands for.

Anti-choice state legislators have pushed laws that require waiting periods, biased and inaccurate pre-abortion counseling and other barriers to a women's right to choose.  Anti-choice foot soldiers mustered on the sidewalks of health clinics to harass, murder and brutalize staff and patients who were attempting to gain access to the health care facility to which they were fully entitled.

Most baffling about the anti-choice activists, who have been wagin 33 years of warefare against choice, is their wholesale rejection of the measures that would prevent the need for abortion.

They oppose comprehensive, medically accurate sex-education, even though it has been proven that truthful, comprehensive sex education is effective in teaching teens responsible decision making, disease prevention and family planning.

They oppose emergency conraception and sometimes all forms of birth control.  You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that without birth control, there will be more unintended pregnancies and therefore an increased need for abortion services.

Over the past few years, anti-choice pharmacists have refused to fill legal prescriptions for emergency contraception because of their own personal biases. You have to wonder how many women were left with an unwanted pregnancy after a pharmacist refused to do his or her job.

In a number of states, attorneys general have tried to subpoena the personal, private medical records of women who have had abortions.  Privacy is the cornerstone of Roe, and the right to medical privacy is as organic to American society as the right to speaka in the public square.

Roe v. Wade is about self-determination and bodily integrity.  It is about how securing these rights gives women an equal place at life's table.  Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority, called Roe "a step that had to be taken as we go down the road toward the full emancipation of women."

Thirty-three years of freedom-and counting.

Jeffrey Bland, president and CEO

Planned Parenthood of Greater Western New Jersey

The Abortion Debate

Link: World Magazine AP News - Weekly News, Christian Views.

Let's make no mistake or pull any punches when we speak about abortion: It is not about women's rights and never has been. If we are honest with ourselves, which is no simple task since it is very easy to live an entire lifetime in denial, we would see the truth in the statement that abortion is about selfishness.

The main reason why abortion has been promoted as a women's rights issue is very simple: to gain the support of women.  And what better way to do that then to threaten a set back on those hard fought and won rights?

Fpr the women who have supported abortion on the grounds that to deny that right is to deny women the victories of the past I would say that they might take a moment to look into the past at some of the writings of two of the leaders of the suffragists movement, namely Susan B. Antony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

In 1873, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote "When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."

Susan B. Anthony said, "The woman is awfully guilty who commits [abortion], it will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death.'

Further, abortion pushers, Planned Parenthood, founded by an avowed racist, had their publicists focus on pushing abortion as a necessity that poor women could not access, appealing to the part of society seen as not having the same opportunity as another, in order to gain support for it across the board.  It worked too, because there is something that all humankind has in common, men and women, rich and poor: the pull of selfishness.  The truth is that abortion has been around as long as history, and a woman who wanted an abortion could usually find one; if she had access to the cash. 

Abortion is the most anti-woman plague to ever descend upon modern society.  In the years since 1973 we can safely guesstimate that over 20 million of American women became medical waste instead of being afforded the right to be the infant girls they should have been and to grow up and enjoy the hard-earned freedoms won them by the suffragists.  For abortion is 'the ultimate exploitation of women' in the words of another feminist pioneer named Alice Paul, plain and simple.  We women have been had and willingly.  But we can stop the slide with a little humilty as well as a change of heart, a change that can only come from a revelation of truth that is acknowledged and acted upon.  I have high hopes for my sex as well as a working knowledge of a changed heart life.  8-)

The Baby

It is quite likely that the Supreme Court will hear cases that may bring us face to face with what we have managed to legally avoid for over thirty years, and that is, the baby, the unspoken one who is a major player in abortion itself.  We can talk all that we want about the woman's right to her body, a woman's reproduction rights, etc., but we don't hear anyone give any time or mention to the reason why abortion was so hard fought for as a supposed woman's right (to privacy), and that is plain and simply, the baby.  For honest discussion to take place regarding abortion the admitting of the unborn child as part of the equation must be included.

Hearts Are Changing

There have been some studies released recently showing that more youth are against the aborting of the unborn.  Of course where are my facts to back up my statement there, somewhere around here or on the internet where I read it.  Interestingly enough though, I get some of that information from the Alan Gutmacher Institute which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood.  I am not sure, however, if that particular study was theirs, even though they do many studies regarding abortion.

It gives me hope for my nation when I read the results of these studies and even some of the statements some of these dear young people make.  Every single one of them was born into a society that considers the aborting of an unwanted pregnancy as some kind of given, right, God given or constitutional.  That is why to hear that hearts are turning away from that vein of thinking and beginning to acknowledge the most vulnerable of our society gives me great hope indeed.

Soon I will return to the crisis pregnancy ministry and once again see some of the youth of our nation, mostly inner city, on a regular basis.  I have missed it these last few years and look foward to returning.  The top two things that I miss about it is sharing God's love with these young people and the young people themselves.  When I think on my years there and those I have met, I can recall situation after trying situation, dire, fear-filled, despair, crying uncontrollably, and too often, laughing in the face of some of the facts about abortion and the risks teens are exposed to when they chose to have sexual relations.   For sure I cannot recall many faces, but I can recall their stories and how they touched me and changed me.  Working with them and knowing the love of Christ in my own heart has firmly established in my heart that it is hearts that should change, not laws, though I of course do believe laws should protect the unborn just as surely as they are supposed to protect the born child from an abusive parent.  It is the heart change though, that ensures that it is by their own free will they come to the truth and it changes them forever.  A law can make you do something you don't want to do, but a heart change, oh a heart change, makes you free from the law, in the spiritual sense, that is.  I wouldn't want anyone reading this to think I am an advocate for lawbreaking.

So, anyway, before my ramble gets too rambly and I end up deleting the entry, It is good that I will be returning and that my return will be during a time when the death mentality of the young is beginning to turn to life, good indeed.  8-)

Oh yes, and when I locate those studies I will surely be back to post the information.

African Americans and Abortion

Here are some grave statistics regarding abortion and the African American population.  Keep in mind that these statistics come from abortion reliable sources such as the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation in America, the leading provider of abortions in the USA (and possibly around the world). 

Stats: The African American community makes up only 12% of the population of the United States, yet has 35% of all abortions.  In Mississippi, where African Americans make up 37% of the state population, they receive 73% of all abortions in Mississippi!  Not only that, but Planned Parenthood locates over 78% of their abortion centers in or near minority cities!! 

What slavery and oppression by the government or any of the racist population in our nation was unable to do, African Americans are allowing abortion to do to their numbers; freely. 

In the name of 'choice' and 'freedom' or sometimes simple selfishness that does not want to be tied down to anyone, African American women are seeming unwitting accomplices in the genocide of their race.

This was my biggest concern when I helped out in the pro-life community; getting this information out to the young black women that I would see, but amazingly, but probably understandably in our self-centered society as a whole, they professed to not care.

Sometimes I think about how I would feel if this were true of my race and someone of another race dared to bring that information to me.  Would I receive it?  Would I believe it?  Would I even bother to look into if it was the truth or not?  Upon finding out it was the truth, would my heart change for my people?  Or would my heart still be fixed firmly on me?  I just don't know what I would do, I really don't.  It is in keeping with that thinking that I go forth sharing this true and factual information, so that it can be known that I do it for information purposes and no other.

Abortion was bound to have backlash of some kind, whether folks want to admit it or not.  After all, over 1 million babies are aborted every single year in the United States alone!  That is a lot of people not being born by someone else's 'choice'. 

Whose Choice?

Today I changed my picture on the weblog page to one of an unborn offspring of humans.  I obtained this picture from a website having to do with human reproduction and whose gestation age I wonder if those who pass by this site now and again, have any idea of.

The reason I chose the former words to describe the unborn is due to how media (mostly Big Media) and pro-abortion people tend to de-humanize the unborn by the words they use to describe the unborn child in the various stages of development.  Granted embryo and fetus and the most common and legitmate words for the unborn, I am sure most of us are aware of how these words continue to be used to cover up the humanity of a fetus, and worse, keep us in a sense, unable to be moved by their separate and helpless position in the womb.

For some time I have had this blog now and the main gist of where I stand on all things is directly related to the cries of the unborn which so many in the world today refuse to hear.  Therefore I thought it about time I got to the point.

While it is true that i am interested in many of the issues of today, the most important one, as far as I am concerned and as far as my fellow human beings should be, is the current crisis in our nation of the legality of the murder of innocent and unborn children by abortion.

It should be becoming increasingly apparent to even some abortion advocates that there is something very strange about urging woman to commit this crime against their own child while pocketing the $$ from accomodating her 'choice'.

A few other things that should be quite obvious to anyone with eyes that are willing to see and ears that can still hear is that when it comes to abortion that is the only decision, so how can it be all about choice?  There is also a reluctance in the medical community as well as in government agencies to publish findings of various studies that abortion can increase a woman's risk of breat cancer.  With breast cancer being a major killer of women in America you would think that it would be important to follow up on this sort of information.  However, there is suppression of this information at some of the highest levels of government and medical associations, all in the name of protecting this 'choice'.  Abortion also continues to be the only unregulated medical procedure in our country, one that flys in the face of all things having to do with safe and sanitary surgical procedures, and one that the medical community shrugs at; well not the entire medical community, but generally speaking no one hears about unsanitary conditions, untrained staff, and lack of life-saving equipment at many of these places where this 'procedure' occurs. 

In the end though, the abortion decision has nothing to do with choice, when the other human being involved in this situation doesn't have their needs taken into consideration whatsoever, but has everything to do with big bucks.