Comments on: Miracle of (Spiritual) Life

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:43:21 +0000

Rosalind, it’s true that there are lots of older children who are waiting for adoption. But people are lined up to adopt newborns, especially now that white parents are allowed to adopt black or mixed-race babies. I agree about the laws. I don’t think the father of a baby born out of wedlock should be able to veto adoption. I think once an adoption goes through it should be final forever.

By: Rosalind

Rosalind — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:21:51 +0000

I believe that abortion is wrong even in cases of rape or incest. However, the reality is that just because a woman is forced to have a baby, doesn’t mean she’ll get the warm fuzzies during the pregnancy and want to keep the child. I know that’s the hope, but it’s totally naive and unrealistic. So, that’s why we need to prepare for abandoned and unwanted children and why we need to bring back orphanages and open more children’s homes for the children who will end up rejected. There will not be enough adoptive parents for them all, and they’re going to have to be taken care of SOMEWHERE and SOMEHOW.

And, even if there was no shortage of adoptive parents, current U.S. adoption laws and regulations are so jacked up, Americans are giving up on adopting American kids and turning to foreign countries, as we speak.

So, when we finish our collective moralizing, what are we going to do to reform the American adoption system and what are we going to do with all the rejected/abandoned children? And, where is the money, for these measures, going to come from? I don’t hear anybody, anywhere, talking about that.

And, we WILL need it. Because, I can honestly say that if I were raped and became pregnant, I would carry the child to term, and do EVERYTHING that should make for a very healthy baby – but there is NO WAY I’d keep that child. And, I know that I’m not alone.

By: DANEgerus

DANEgerus — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:42:31 +0000

A miracle is…

You can’t have a miracle if you eliminate all the chances.

By: Nikki Pratt

Nikki Pratt — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:56:06 +0000

I once read exerpts from a book concerning women who became pregnant through rape and their decisions to (and not to) abort the babies. Women who aborted the babies had the same regrets and depression as other abortionees. Many realized that their child had become a victim, just like they were! It was so sad. There were also tales of women who kept the babies, even bi-racial babies, and said they experienced healing because of their child. Wow. It was a powerful book. Until I read it, I also thought there were “exemptions” for abortion. Not anymore.

By: Chase

Chase — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:56:05 +0000

Jase Alston,

Rape does absolve the woman of the responsibility to care for the child, meaning she can put it up for adoption. Having one’s rights infringed upon in no way, however, absolves a woman of the responsibility to respect the rights of others, her rapist excluded. The child is is as much an innocent victim as the woman, and the wrong of eliminating that child combined with the wrong of the infringement upon the woman’s rights does not amount to any sort of right.

Instead, society should think along the lines of, “Abort the rapist… with an injection”

By: Mark Pettifor

Mark Pettifor — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:29:25 +0000

Tim Roemer, when first running for Congress in our district against Republican incumbent John Hiler, won the election, I believe, because of his pro-life position. It has always been a close House race in our district (3rd – Indiana), and there are a LOT of prolifers around here, and since both Roemer and Hiler were prolife, the scale tipped in Roemer’s favor because of the huge number of Catholics (the vast majority of whom are prolife) and life-long Democrats who decided they could support Roemer and still vote Democrat.

Well, the other reason he won I think was that he sounded like a Republican in everything he said. He doesn’t vote that way, but he’s a good politician.

By: Jase Alston

Jase Alston — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:08:17 +0000

Well La Shawn,

I loved your post but I still feel it’s right to offer a choice to rape victims. Sex is a choice and those who choose to be irresponsible and have unsafe sex shouldn’t be allowed to have an abortion. But rape victims just didn’t have a choice; I feel bad when those who had no say so in the act of conception are forced to keep the results of the act. I do however commend those who still had babies that resulted from any type of rape; it’s a sign of strength. I also think you made a great point regardless of whether or not I agree with it. Be blessed!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:44:11 +0000

Wow. How cool. I hit “Post it” and I go to the FBI Forsensics page.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:15:29 +0000

Great post. Though I recoil in the religious right’s attachment to the republican party, I still hold my nose and vote republican because of their support of the rights of the most innocent abortion.
Merry Christmas,
brad
P.S. I did love W’s compassionate comments on immigration at his last press conference.

By: Dave in AZ

Dave in AZ — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:09:05 +0000

The same God that chose to place His Son in the womb of the virgin Mary is the same God that chooses to place human life within the wombs of women, every minute of everyday!

By: Cobb

Cobb — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:43:53 +0000

Which interpretation of Christianity urges us to develop technology to save an infant that would otherwise die? Who interprets God’s will to say such and such woman should be barren and another woman fertile? It is clearly science that develops the technology to keep premies alive, but how is it that Christianity gets to appropriate the moral basis for the use of technology? These are rhetorical questions of course.

I think it is a reasonable to suggest one interpretation of scripture might be to have men not meddle in the miracle of birth, and that would include both fertility drugs and contraception. My personal belief is that it is a question for society, in other words of law, negotiated by the people.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:49:16 +0000

Was anyone aware that that baby is a twin her sister weighed in at about 1.6 pounds.

Mark

By: Chase

Chase — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:46:10 +0000

You have to look at their psyche and their goals, La Shawn. These are people who recognize no morality other than that which advances their cause, socialism. In the case of abortion, it serves a very explicit goal, not to preserve “choice”, “health”, or some other nefarious reason to kill someone, but to advance socialism. Socialism requires that personal responsibility and respect for the sacred status of the individual be gone. The collective must be responsible for all actions, and the belief that one person has the moral obligation to either accept the consequence of his or her action beyond which the village prescribes or accept any idea of individual rights is dangerous to that precept.

By: anemone

anemone — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:19:35 +0000

LaShawn – you ROCK, girl!

Love your blog : keep doing whatcha do!

By: Chrysostomos

Chrysostomos — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:34:17 +0000

La Shawn,

This is my first visit to your blog. Wow! I wanted to wish you a Happy Nativity. Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

What a miracle in that child being recently born. What a greater miracle in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour being born!!!