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Make sure you watch the video and check out their website at http://speaknowgirlscouts.com to learn how you can prevent your children from being mislead by the culture of death propaganda.
Via: "By Lila Rose, Live Action: Sydney and Tess Volanski are two amazing young girls who are standing up for the truth– ..."
©2008-2011 Patricia Garza
©2008 Patricia Garza
This is something I have been trying to say and meaning to write about for awhile on the relation to child abuse and abortion. The Abolitionist Society of Oklahoma has done a great job of presenting this case based on facts, that child abuse rates actually went up after abortion became legal. This confirms my belief abortion is a form of child abuse and, child abuse starts in the womb. In addition, studies have shown women who abort are more likely to abuse other children due to depression, substance abuse and anger, which also proves the 'chosen' child is not always a wanted child, but that many children who are abused are not abused because they were unwanted,but most often because the mother couldn't handle the job of parenting and 'chose' later to kill them to try and improve their situation. One high profile example comes to mind, the case of Caylee Anthony.
Those who claim to 'choose' the children they want when they are 'ready to parent' are not immune to child abuse, because when they decide to end the life of one offspring to serve themselves or the needs of their born children, they are committing a selfish and violent act against the innocent human offspring in the womb. This is also why I believe child abuse starts in the womb and won't end until abortion ends.
For a followup to this post see On-Demand Abortions Encourages Child Abuse Part 2Abortion-on-Demand Encourages Child Abuse
Many are familiar with the old pro-choice mantra: "Every child a wanted child." Many arguments were attached to this particular saying. One argument in particular basically stated that abortion-on-demand would reduce the amount of child abuse in the country by preventing 'unwanted' children from being born. The main problem with this argument is the facts.
Francis Schaeffer writes about this argument in Whatever Happened To The Human Race (1983), "Since 1970 it is conservatively estimated in the United States that there are probably over ten million fewer children who would now be be between the ages of one and seven. Since these ten million were 'unwanted' and supposedly would have been prime targets for child abuse, it would seem reasonable to look for a sharp drop in child abuse in this same period." He goes on to say, "In 1972 there were 60,000 child-abuse incidents which were brought to official attention in the United States. Just four years later, in 1976, the number that received official attention passed the half-million mark." This shows indisputably that the "every child a wanted child" pro-choice logic is patently false.
The numbers seem to indicate that not only did abortion-on-demand not decrease child abuse, it seems to have encouraged it. Some may try to argue that the numbers were always that high and that reporting improved, but it seems very implausible that 440,000 were tacked on to the statistics by simply improving reporting processes. Abortion being legalized seems to be the most dramatic cultural change one can identify in that brief four year period that could have caused such a dramatic degradation in the culture's view of life. The simple fact is that laws affect the conscience of a nation and something being legal increases the cultural permissibility of a particular action.[my emphasis]
The question still remains as to why abortion-on-demand would cause citizens to abuse their children more. Schaeffer gives two reasons from two different sources. The first reason he gives was proposed by West Germany's equivalent to the Supreme Court. This court, in giving a reason why they banned abortion-on-demand in the first trimester said, "We cannot ignore the educational impact of abortion on the respect for life." Schaeffer continued to explain their reasoning, "The German court reasoned that if abortion were made legal for any and every reason during the first trimester, it would prove difficult to persuade people that second and third trimester fetuses deserve protection simply because they are a few weeks older. The court apparently feared that what would happen to older fetuses could also happen to children after birth." Then Schaeffer quotes Harold Brown who summarizes the phenomenon succinctly by saying, "Parents, perhaps unconsciously could reason, 'I didn't have to have him. I could have killed him before he was born. So if I want to knock him around now that he is born, isn't that my right?'"
I'll conclude with one plea to the pro-choicers that I am certain will be infuriated by this post. Please look at the facts. You are perfectly fine with shouting mantras to drown out your opponents because you believe you are right, but could it be that your logic does not hold up when all of the facts are known? Could it be that you have settled for pithy rhetoric instead of truth? Before you get on here and comment some nonsense that probably isn't relevant to this post, please think about the facts that were just presented to you. Think about whether or not your view is supported by facts or if you just think it sounds reasonable. I'll admit that on its face, "every child a wanted child" sounds like it makes sense, but it does not stand when the facts are known. Abortion-on-demand has done nothing to decrease the number of child abuse cases; in fact, it seems to have encouraged it by dehumanizing the unborn, taking away their rights, and giving them to their mother. The facts illustrate with clarity that "every child a wanted child" is gross misinformation designed to deceive. If you are pro-choice and you continue to use this argument despite the facts, you are a sophist. You live to deceive in order to support your position. You have chosen rhetoric over reason.....and that is evil.
©2008 Patricia Garza
Instead, the worried mother reflected on the what if's and the worst scenarios such as:I pictured him watching from the sofa, frustrated and immobile, as his sisters turned cartwheels and somersaults in the living room. I envisaged trips to the park, where he would sit on the sidelines as other children clambered over climbing frames and kicked footballs.Thankfully, my parents gave my sister life despite her condition and she is a bright,outgoing,and blessed married woman. She has never let her handicap get her down&has always been an inspiration to everyone who meets her. She is always positive and has a heart of gold.
The consultant referred me to London’s specialist University College Hospital for a detailed scan which would help determine the extent of our son’s handicap.
The scan confirmed that our baby would never walk. He would be doubly incontinent and paralysed from the waist down. Water was collecting around his brain, and only time would tell if that would impair him mentally.
I tried to shake away the image I conjured in my head of a little boy, lonely and friendless, robbed of the most basic human functions. The prospect of watching a child I’d love just as much as his sisters suffer in this way made me howl. I hugged my stomach, as if I could in some way shield him from the misery that lay ahead.
It was the thought of our son’s incurable impotence that triggered my husband’s tears. ‘Oh God, what sort of life will he have?’ he asked the doctors. It was, of course, a rhetorical question, and no one attempted to answer it.
My brother James has a son, Anthony, who has cerebral palsy. When we shared our dilemma with James, he told me how painful it is to watch your disabled child struggle and suffer.
Anthony, now 12, spent months in the neo-natal intensive care following his birth, and has endured several operations on his back and legs. He is still unable to walk far and needs his parents’ help to get dressed.
He is highly intelligent and, while none of us could bear the thought of life without him, his frustration at his condition is evident. Seeing his younger brother, Scott, turning somersaults on a trampoline at a family barbecue, he grew angry and used his favourite weapon — his vicious tongue — telling Scott that everyone thought he was stupid. Tears followed, from both boys.
James said that the degree of handicap our child faced could prove unbearable for all concerned, not least our son.
'I realised I couldn’t bring this child into the world, knowing the extent to which he would suffer'
When my older sister, Marie, a nurse who has cared for sick children, told me I should spare us all the suffering and have a termination, I was still shocked. And angry. I felt nobody but me loved this baby.
Yet when I look back now, I am grateful for my sister’s words. They gave me permission, somehow, to consider termination.
And so it was that a week after that first scan, and against my initial instincts, I realised I couldn’t bring this child into the world, knowing the extent to which he would suffer.
Andrew and I talked long into the night, and finally agreed that ending the pregnancy was the kindest thing we could do for our son.
Yet if making that choice was hard, the physical ordeal was only just beginning. At 18 weeks pregnant, I was too far gone for a surgical termination and would have to go through a labour and delivery, under the care of midwives at our local hospital.
The first step was to take the drug Mifepristone to block progesterone, a hormone vital to pregnancy. I swallowed the pill in a side room on the labour ward — the same room where I’d given birth to our younger daughter two years previously.
Over the two days that followed, I fought the urge to put my hands on my stomach when I felt the baby move. Knowing that he was slowly dying inside me was the very definition of hell.
After two days, I returned to the same room to take a second drug to induce labour.
What followed were the worst 16 hours of my life. They passed in a morphine-induced haze, but there was no dulling what was happening.
My baby was being forced into the world long before he could survive in it, and it felt unnatural — completely at odds with my instincts as a mother. My body seemed to be doing all it could to hold onto him, and the labour went on and on.
At one point, in the grips of what felt like a panic attack, I became hysterical. Gasping for breath and screaming, I demanded that Andrew tell me why we were doing this and why it was the right thing for our son.
He calmly described the kind of life we were trying to spare him from, and that we were loving parents, doing what we felt was best.
I demanded to know: ‘If this baby was inside you, not me, would you be on this bed right now, ending his life?’
‘Yes,’ he assured me. ‘I know how hard it must be, and I wish I could take your place.’
I wanted the labour to be over, but I dreaded the end. Having experienced the joy of delivering two full-term babies, I was frightened of how my son would look at 18 weeks’ gestation. At the same time, I knew I had to take the only opportunity I would ever get to hold him.
Andrew, who was by my side throughout the labour, eventually decided to give me some privacy and went for a coffee. The midwife disappeared, too, so I was entirely alone when our son was finally born, asleep, just after 9am on October 12.
Not daring to look at him, I screamed for help — and was alarmed to see the midwife recoil before reaching out to pick him up from the bed.
When Andrew came back he was distressed, and not sure he could bear to look at our son, whom we had long before decided to name George.
However, when George was returned to us, clean and dressed in crocheted clothes no bigger than those worn by our daughters’ dolls, Andrew held out his arms and cradled our tiny son just as lovingly as he had held our two daughters when they were born.
I said George had my husband’s nose, and, as we passed our son between us, tears ran down our cheeks for the child we would never see grow.
It was a struggle to get through the weeks that followed. Our family and friends helped with the children, and before long I was taking my younger daughter to playgroups and ferrying my elder to and from school.
With friends, I was honest about what had happened, but acquaintances shied away from asking what had gone wrong with the pregnancy. When I heard other mothers chatting about shopping or potty training, I wanted to scream: ‘Have you any idea what I’ve been through?’
Everywhere I went, there were pregnant women and babies. I felt irrational anger and resentment that these mothers hadn’t faced the choice of whether or not to abort a disabled child.
I even envied women who had miscarried — something I’d experienced myself, with great sadness, three years previously. But at least those babies hadn’t died at their mother’s hands, and their experiences evoked straightforward sympathy, never vitriol.
With hindsight, I realise I was depressed, though I never asked for medication, focusing instead on getting pregnant again.
According to Department of Health figures for England and Wales, almost 2,000 terminations are carried out each year on the grounds that the child would be handicapped. Others, of course, opt to keep their babies.
Abortion or a baby born with disability: What choice would you make? via Mail Online
©2008 Patricia Garza
Such a sad and tragic end to a short life. How any mother can take the life of her own offspring in or out of the womb is beyond me. She cared for 6yrs of his life, gave birth to him and carried him in her womb for nine months and for unknown reasons decided to murder him with an overdose of cough syrup. Hard to believe nobody noticed him missing or asked where he was. It's not clear what she was doing in Maine where his body was found disposed of along a dirt road wrapped in a blanket over the weekend.
How sad that a mother would just dispose of their child like a piece of garbage like this. Again, this is the inhumanity of a culture of death that allows the murder of human beings in the womb and then disposes of them like medical waste. It's not surprising women who think they can dispose of their offspring in the womb would lead to women taking the life of their born offspring. May God bless little Camden and help him understand why his mother did this to him. May God judge her justly for her sin and may the law and justice put her away for life, if not given the death penalty.
Camden Pierce Hughes (photo courtesy: Facebook)
CONCORD (CBS) – A boy found dead in Maine Saturday has been identified as 6-year-old Camden Pierce Hughes of Texas. WBZ-TV was first to break the news Wednesday afternoon.
WBZ-TV’s Ken MacLeod reports. [See Video]
His mother, Juli McCrery of Irving, Texas, is in Massachusetts State Police custody in Concord and has confessed to giving her son an overdose of cough syrup that resulted in his death, sources tell WBZ-TV.
“We were together for two years, but I’ve known (the boy) since the day he was born,” said Robert Miller, McCrery’s ex-boyfriend who also lives in Irving, Texas. “He was a very nice boy. He was an innocent boy.”
Web Extra: Juli McCrery Leaves State Police Barracks
Camden Pierce Hughes’s body was discovered in South Berwick, Maine over the weekend, wrapped in a blanket next to a dirt road. During a news conference at the Massachusetts State Police barracks in Concord, a state police spokesperson said that the case has been referred to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
©2008 Patricia Garza
November’s email campaign was so successful — 12 children statewide found permanent homes because of it — that they decided to give Twitter a try.
Since mid-April, the Florida Department of Children & Families and Gov. Rick Scott’s office have been Tweeting about training sessions and support tools for future adoptive parents to followers of @ExploreAdoption, the Twitter name for the state’s adoption program.
So far, followers of the @ExploreAdoption feed have received 16 tweets, sometimes featuring links to resources on the Explore Adoption website. Last week, the first tweet to feature a foster child waiting to be adopted was sent to the more than followers.
State officials said the tweeting, an even faster and far-reaching social networking tool than email, is being done by three state employees without additional funding or resources. The tweets focus on teenagers, groups of siblings and children with medical disabilities — kids who often find it difficult to find adoptive families.
“It’s so important for these children to be adopted before they age out of foster care because they are at a greater risk of not completing high school or college, becoming homeless, getting arrested or possibly becoming parents at an early age,” said Cyndee Odom, of the Governor’s Office of Adoption and Child Protection, and one of the “tweeters.”
Twitter was chosen for this initiative instead of other social networking options such as Facebook because it is easier to control inappropriate comments, Odom said.
The far-reaching impact of Twitter, with an estimated 55 million daily tweets about everything from the latest breaking news to celebrity gossip, is a plus, Odom added.
“I believe, with 18 million people in this state, that if they are aware and introduced to these children, that they will open their hopes and hearts,” she said.
Odom and a couple of colleagues will tweet once or twice a week, but there are also plans to tweet more frequently and feature more foster children, Odom added.
“[Twitter] is a wonderful venue to share information and showcase these beautiful, beautiful children,” Odom said.
©2008 Patricia Garza
Mother's day is here and it is a great day to remember our moms who gave us life, cared for our needs while growing up and continue to listen to our trials and tribulations as adults. My mom has been there for me through tough times during my teens and has always offered me unconditional love and support.
Sadly, not all moms are able to share every milestone with their children because they selflessly gave them up for adoption due to financial or personal reasons and others won't share those priceless moments of seeing their baby's first steps, first words and first day of school because they chose to abort them. Today we mourn those children who lost their lives due to abortion and pray for those mothers who made that inconceivable choice and today we remember all mother's who gave birth and gave the gift of life to their child, especially those who gave their babies up for adoption, who may never meet their child but knows they did what was best and gave their child life.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and this year be sure to honor all mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and birthmothers. Amanda Lord, Field Coordinator with Students for Life of America explains the importance of reaching out to all mothers, including birthmother’s this year:
Nearly every American can tell you why we celebrate Mother’s Day. People use it as a day to honor their mother, grandmother, stepmother, or someone else they view as a mother figure.
But there is one type of mother that is commonly forgotten. These mothers watch as other women receive handmade cards, flowers, breakfasts in bed, and family brunches. On Mother’s Day, they don’t receive a card made by their child, no burnt pancakes covered in maple syrup, and there isn’t a single flower to put into a vase.
Some of these forgotten mothers will spend this May 8th in tears.
The mothers I’m speaking of are Birthmoms, women who place a child for adoption. Generally, these mothers are not celebrated on Mother’s Day. It’s not because people are cold-hearted or thoughtless toward birthmoms. Rather, most don’t know how to respond. They think it might be insensitive to say anything to a birthmom on Mother’s Day. Others are simply unaware of the birthmoms around them.
Birthmoms never celebrated their baby’s first word. They could not guide them in their first steps. They didn’t pack their child’s lunch for the first day of school. They weren’t there to take prom pictures. But they are still Mothers. They should be honored as much as mothers who parent their children. They made the ultimate and most selfless sacrifice in order that their child may live and thrive.
As a Birthmother, I am so grateful to be surrounded by people who honor me as a mother. Every year I am honored in one way or another – flowers, cards, or even dinner. Having someone celebrate my motherhood reminds me that I am not alone on a day that can sometimes be painful.
This year, my organization – Students for Life of America – has expanded our annual Mother’s Day Postcard campaign giving individuals the opportunity to not only thank their mothers and grandmothers for choosing Life but to thank their birthmothers or a birthmother they have never met. View the postcard here.
It is my hope that there will come a day when all mothers are honored on Mother’s Day, and I believe that receiving a ‘thank you’ via an organization that helps save the lives of babies like my son would be a blessing.
©2008 Patricia Garza
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