Thank you for visiting this blog!

After a great deal of thought and prayer, I have decided to stop blogging at this time.

I am incredibly indebted to the people who have helped make this blog a success. Thank you to all of the dedicated readers.

I am available as a pro-life speaker upon request. You may use the "comment function" at the bottom of this post to contact me. I moderate the comments so your personal contact information will only be seen by me and will not be published.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth

Like Walking?

Do you or someone you know like to walk!?

Would you like to walk...a really long distance?

This summer?

Are you between the ages of 18 and 22...or close to those ages?!

Do you like not making money?

Do you like praying outside of abortion mills everyday?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not shower for days on end?

Do you like eating whatever is around and having no plan for future eating?

Do you think that promoting a Culture of Life every waking second would make for the best summer of your life?

If you answered "yes" to most of the above questions...email me!

I am an Abortion Foe

Here's an article about the dumpster full of biomedical waste outside of an abortuary in Michigan.

Check out the second paragraph:

Acting on a tip from abortion foes, Lathrup Village police and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality called in a hazardous waste disposal company early Monday morning to haul away blood-soaked gauze, surgical instruments and other biomedical waste found in the Dumpster outside the Lathrup Village office of WomanCare. DEQ officials later searched the garbage outside of a WomanCare clinic in Sterling Heights but it was unclear if they recovered anything.

Seriously people, what on earth is an 'abortion foe?'

Is "pro-life" suddenly offensive? Biased? Insensitive? Suggestive that those who are not pro-life are anti-life?"

Who dreams up this terminology?

Would it be too obvious that the reporter doesn't want to call us 'pro-life' if it were stated, "Those who disagree with legal abortion..."

Would the wordiness give it away?

Instead, 'abortion foe' is the new 'anti-choice.'

For more information on the incident with the dumpster go to www.jillstanek.com

Hormones, the New Sins!, and the Earth Twin

Who needs vitamin water when you can have hormone water?

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I love (hate) how the media make it look like the people in the Vatican have been sitting around coming up with stuff that should be considered a sin.

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I wonder if they do abortions on the Earth Twin?

Being Pro-Life Involves:

I'm going to come up with this list off the top of my head...feel free to contribute:

Being pro-life involves...

1. Standing in all sorts of weather including- but not exclusive to-

a. rain
b. torrential rain
c. snow
d. HEAT
e. freezing temperatures
f. wind

2. Answering awkward questions at family get togethers, such as:

a. "So, are you going to be a nun?"
b. "So, are you going to bomb something?"
c. "So, you're like, really into that 'stuff' huh?

3. Having entire photo-albums that will take some serious explaining someday because...

a. You are holding fetal models in the picture.
b. You're sitting in front of your side-walk chalk message located in downtown Lost Angeles.
c. You are your 12 best friends are swimming in the ocean fully clothed, all wearing the same pro-life t-shirt.

4. Supressing tid-bits of knowledge that you've acquired about the unborn such as:

a. When a colleague is pregnant stating, "oh, 6 weeks? your baby now has measureable brain waves!"
b. When someone quips "you'll know more about the pregnancy when you get pregnant."

Entirely for God

"What would our lives look like if we lived entirely for God?"

- Anthony Muhs

What a youtube search turns up...

Abortion Done While "Alive"

There's an interesting news article about a woman who was told she had miscarried, only to then find out a month later that the baby was just fine.

At the time that she had supposedly miscarried, she was offered an abortion drug. When she found out that the baby was indeed alive, she could hardly believe it.

Catherine said:

What if I had taken the tablets they offered me? They could have left my baby severely disabled, or it could have died?

They could've aborted my baby while it was alive, how can the hospital make a mistake like that?

How many other people have taken the tablets or had an abortion when their baby was alive all the time?

The nurse should have got another doctor to check me properly.

You can't just rule a baby's life out without getting it double-checked.

I think it's an interesting twist of phrase to say that an abortion would be done while a baby is alive. Certainly she means that she thought she had already miscarried. However, by definition, all abortions are done while the baby is alive. That's why the abortion is called for- to stop the living.

A Memory

In college I went to a pro-choice meeting (don't even ask!) and the people leading it said that the 'anti-choicers' were 'dangerous' because "they vote."

Specifically, "they vote based upon this one issue." (abortion)

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The pro-life vote is very powerful.

The media can ignore it or chalk it up to 'the Evangelicals' (ignoring the fact that it's slightly more complicated than that).

The media can ignore all of the pro-life activity that exists around the country on a regular basis.

The media can ignore the pro-life candidates.

But pro-lifers can still vote.

Vote.

Vote.

Vote.

Intellectual Diversity

Growing up in Massachusetts it was assumed that everyone thought the exact same way about major issues.

Even the notion that people would think drastically differently simply did not exist.

In college it was more of the same.

It was assumed that everyone and everyone (who was sane) had the same thoughts. If by chance you had different thoughts, it was assumed you were mentally retarded or had grown up in some strange brainwashing commune.

At the end of my senior year of college, myself and about 20 other students from one of my education classes went on a group 'mock interview' with a principal from a local school. It was at the time of the 2004 election and "everyone" in New Hampshire was liberal.

Before the interviews started the principal of the elementary school made a derogatory remark about Republicans. She then hesitated and looked at my cooperating teacher. My cooperating teacher smiled reassuringly and said, "Don't worry, we're all in education so we all think the same way."

I almost walked right out.

At times I look back and wish I had said, "How can you sit here and pretend to promote every single type of diversity and tolerance and then say derogatory things about half the population of our country? Do you think you're creating a 'safe' environment for ALL of your teachers, students, and parents who come through this school? Has it ever occured to you that you are a complete hipocrite and should be ashamed at your blazen assumption that everyone in the field of education votes and thinks the exact same way?"

I think the real reason I didn't say anything was because I was 2 weeks away from graduation. Why jeopardize my diploma because of an emotional outburst?

The older more mature me thinks that there might have been a middle option. I could have calmly chosen to simply articulate, "I am offended by the notion that just because we're all education majors means that we are going to vote the same way in November."

That would have resulted in some fabulous stunned silence without risking my diploma.

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I did not hear the phrase "intellectually diversity" until I was well in my 20's. Hearing the concept made me sit up and think, "Why hasn't the concept that good, sane, people can have differing views on important issues been promoted in my schooling?"

Just as the March for Life "didn't exist" in the minds of those who control the media; regular people who hold views that are contrary to a liberal agenda "don't exist" either.

Intellectual diversity is good for our country. It is what pushes us to be better; it is the conflict and acceptance of new ideas that push us to truly be a nation of freedom.

Just remember that a little sanity goes a long way. If we tell people off it will only confirm their suspicion that we're 'crazy.' Stay calm and be smart about how you share your views. It will pay off in the end.

Quote

"Following Super Tuesday, the Democratic Party is on a mind-blowing high — rightly so. It has two forceful candidates who promise to fight for the party’s overarching goal: social and political liberalism. And what’s more, both candidates agree upon a big picture strategy: revamp foreign policy by leaving Iraq; raise up the poor by increasing taxes on the rich; institute universal health care; improve America’s image abroad by building bridges with rogue states; let immigration take care of itself, for now; nominate activist judges; and continue the redefinition of traditional morality, especially the support of legal abortion."

- Father Jonathan

Trivia Question

Last Sunday's Super Bowl was the SECOND most watched television event in all of television history.

What was the MOST watched?

(This trivia question is compliments of my dad).

Gentlemen

Chesterton: "The devil is a gentlemen."

Great article here.

Stats

January blog hits: 982 (as of 11:21pm on the 31st.)

Though my brother is quick to add, "At least 100 don't count because you probably go to your own blog."

Faith on Tap; Long Island

"We have the most incredible and rich faith on the planet."

- So said Dr. Kevin Kulik, who was hosted this evening at Long Island's Faith on Tap. He spoke on the "Real Deal about Men and Women."

It was fantastic.

Here is a link to his site.

"What?"

No lie, I am helping at a concert for 10 year olds when...

a lady comes up to me and asks, "Is there where you're meeting your mother?"

It didn't really register at first what she was asking so I just blurted out, "What?!"

She said it again. "Are you meeting your mother here?"

"What?!!?" I exclaim a second time.

Then it registers on her face. I am not a child.

"Oh." She offers. "You're an adult."

Hot Chocolate x 2

While praying outside an abortion mill this morning a father and daughter drove up in front of me.

Then they handed out hot chocolate to myself and my friends.

I don't know who you are, but THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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An hour or so later, a man drove up...

hopped out of his car...

and gave us all some more hot chocolate.

THANK YOU!!!

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I don't really know what to say other than that it is so humbling when others take the time and money to let you know that they support what you're doing.

I know that standing with signs on a cold day isn't for everyone and that people often want to know what other things they can do to participate in promoting a Culture of Life.

I will tell you that it's the little things that can really make a big difference. So much of one's involvement in the pro-life movement is consumed by presenting the pro-life position to people who have great distain for you. When someone does show sincere charity towards you, the charity bolsters your resolve to keep on with the message. (I once watched a man pull his car over, take out his wallet, and hand all the cash he had in his wallet to my friend ($200) in order for the money to go to the pro-life cause. Then the man drove away.)

For the 10 year old (don't know really know her age) girl that was with her father who bought us the hot-chocolate...that girl will now have an internalized understanding of her parent's views on the dignity of human life because of having participated in this small way than after any conversation the parents could ever have with her.

In her father showing charity to us, he in fact demonstrated to his daughter that he will be there for her no matter what...

and that, is truly pro-life.

Interesting quotes...

In the article, "Abortions Battle of Messages," Francis Kissling and Kate Michelman question their very own "choice movement." My comments are in blue bold. The red is just what I'm highlighting in the original text.

In the 1970s, the arguments were simple and polarized: Abortion was either murder or a woman's right to control her body. The fetus, however, stayed largely invisible. The pro-choice movement stayed on the message offensive, tactically shifting in 1989 from women's bodies to the "who decides" question posed by NARAL Pro-Choice America. But this was rapidly parried by the anti-choice demand that we look at what was being decided, not just who was deciding. Yes, we should all look at "what" is being decided (a.k.a. A BABY).

Science facilitated the swing of the pendulum. Three-dimensional ultrasound images of babies in utero began to grace the family fridge. Fetuses underwent surgery. More premature babies survived and were healthier. They commanded our attention, and the question of what we owe them, if anything, could not be dismissed. These trends gave antiabortionists an advantage, and they made the best of it. Now, we rarely hear them talk about murdering babies. Well, it still is murdering babies.

Instead, they present a sophisticated philosophical and political challenge. Caring societies, they say, seek to expand inclusion into "the human community." Those once excluded, such as women and minorities, are now equal. Why not welcome the fetus (who, after all, is us) into our community? "The fetus" is a human being in the fetal stage of life. To say "fetus" in such a way that aims to suggest that some'thing' is less than human, is to be ignorant of basic biology.

Advocates of choice have had a hard time dealing with the increased visibility of the fetus. Duh, because it's a little baby! The preferred strategy is still to ignore it and try to shift the conversation back to women. At times, this makes us appear insensitive, a bit too pragmatic in a world where the desire to live more communitarian and "life-affirming" lives is palpable. To some people, pro-choice values seem to have been unaffected by the desire to save the whales and the trees, to respect animal life and to end violence at all levels. Pope John Paul II got that, and coined the term "culture of life." President Bush adopted it, and the slogan, as much as it pains us to admit it, moved some hearts and minds. Supporting abortion is tough to fit into this package.

If pro-choice values are to regain the moral high ground, genuine discussion about these challenges needs to take place within the movement. It is inadequate to try to message our way out of this problem. Yep. Our vigorous defense of the right to choose needs to be accompanied by greater openness regarding the real conflict between life and choice, between rights and responsibility. It is time for a serious reassessment of how to think about abortion in a world that is radically changed from 1973. Yes, please re-asses. Become pro-life!

Whose Who in the News (and why?!)

I came home work this evening and as always, checked the news online.

My eyes fell upon a headline regarding the death of Heath Ledger. I actually had to re-read the link a few times.

After seeing him in Ten Things I Hate About You (which I think came out when I was a teenager...) he's remained one of those movie-stars I consider to be "pretty dream-y" (if I may borrow some super-80's jargon.)

The news of his death is sort of a big deal at the moment considering he was indeed famous and his death occurred today.

However...

The thing that gets me is that you would think that it is the only thing that happened today on the entire planet!

I'm starting to come around to completely hating news programs. The majority of it is highlights of the lives of celebrities- most of whom are famous for reasons no one can immediately recall.

Real news...say THE MARCH FOR LIFE...is virtually non-existent.

News programs simply do not reflect reality.

Good grief.

March for Life 2008

And yet another year goes by with no March for Life news on cnn.com or foxnews.com.