This be murder, this be not

Someone told me once that if one read about how abortions were performed, etc., one would become desensitized to them, and not think of them as the evil that they are. I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t know that I’m desensitized… but if you have no interest in finding out about how one is carried out, don’t read this. I will try and not use much detail, but I don’t know how well it will turn out.

Recently the state of South Dakota banned abortion. In order to make a stand, a woman posted on her blog the directions for a DIY abortion. No, she wasn’t promoting sticking a pair of tweezers up one’s cervix, but she was promoting someone who has never performed any type of surgery in their life performing an abortion.

There are those who say that if people are shown pictures of a baby (or fetus), they will see that it is a real baby, and not want an abortion. Not true. Have you ever considered how one knows when all the pieces of the baby are removed from the mother’s uterus? You read up on it, examine pictures, know what it looks like at various points of the pregnancy. So when performing the abortion you know if you have left bits and pieces of the skull or some other such part in the uterus. Perhaps it is not knowing how to perform an abortion that desensitizes you, but it is knowing how and being willing to do one.

But here’s what I’ve been wondering. Taking surgical forceps and squeezing the skull of a baby is not everyone’s cup of tea. DIY abortions are not necessarily meant to enable a woman to have an abortion who could not otherwise. It really doesn’t take much to drive across the state line and have one at a clinic.

Rather, here’s my take. DIY abortions are intended to make a point. Those who advocate and perform them aren’t wanting necessarily to help women, but wanting to make a point. They want people to say “oh, it’s so much more healthier and safer if we have clinics and it’s legal…if we make it illegal all these horrible things could happen, and people who aren’t professionally trained would be able to do it.” It’s about allowing abortion to remain, not about a woman’s choice.

I have tried not to go into a rant about abortion and my personal thoughts regarding it. I have tried not to describe the process in depth. But I want to leave you with this question…

Is the promotion of DIY abortions really about helping women, or is it about a political move?

Woman, Thy Name Is Object

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems to me that in today’s society, women are often, for lack of a better word, objectified. And if you don’t agree with the objectification of women, you are a feminist. Well, what if you a) don’t agree with the objectification of women, and b) don’t agree with all the tenets of modern feminism? What does that make you?

Other than a misfit.

However, I don’t think that objectification of women is merely in a sexual sense. It certainly is, and I certainly can not stand that one bit, but I think it even exists among your “traditional Christian conservative homeschooling” circles. Oh, they’d deny it, I’m sure. After all, God created men and women equal. It’s just that men are more equal than women. Gotta love the Animal Farm twist there.

Have You Forgotten?

If you don’t want to relive that day, don’t see this.

It is emotionally intense. It is like reliving that day. It was all that I expected and yet nothing that I expected. No actors are mentioned in the credits, at least not what I saw, which I believe was most of them. And yet… yet it’s done so well.

Yeah, this is none other than United 93 – the movie that is the only one to date that has had me crying so much or even physically shaking.

Do I recommend it? Yes, I do. If and only if you are interested in seeing it. If not, don’t even bother. I liked it, at least as much as it is possible to like something like that. I have no intention of watching it again. I don’t know if I could handle watching it again. It was hard enough to watch it this time. I found myself saying “Lord have mercy” over and over again, wishing with all my heart that He might do something to save them, yet knowing that it was hopeless and pointless since it had already happened, and five years ago at that.

It makes one wonder exactly how safe we are, when you see the miscommunication going on with the military. And how the guys at the military kept getting fed the wrong information or the information late. Not knowing what was happening until they saw it on CNN. Thinking that American 11 was still in the air after it had crashed into the first World Trade Center. Thinking Amercan 77 was still flying after it had crashed into the Pentagon. Thinking Flight 1989 was hijacked after it had been proven it wasn’t. Not knowing that United 93 was hijacked until after it crashed on that Pennsylvania field.

It is a powerful movie, imho. It is worth seeing. It is horrific. It ends well. It was well done overall.

May their memories be eternal and may the Lord have mercy on our souls.