cinlife Sun, 26 Apr 1998 Volume 1 : Number 86
In this issue:
Testing new unnatural birth control in South America
Japan follows dictates of reason re: unnatural birth control
Re: Janet Reno defines "cultist"
24 out of 27 studies showed a much higher risk of breast cancer in woman having abortions. Choose life!
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:47:10 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Testing new unnatural birth control in South America
Message-ID: <c125ef06.3542219f@aol.com>
The following comes from The American Life League's communique, March 20,
1998.(http://www.all.org/resource/cq980320.htm)
"CYCLOFEM: The World Bank, UNFPA and other population control enthusiasts
are testing the injectable birth control chemicals Cyclofem and
Cyclofemina on women in Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Peru. The goal is to
“prevent pregnancy.” The chemicals’ pharmacologies point to early
abortion prior to implantation."
(Reading: “Introductory Study of the Once-a-Month, Injectable
Contraceptive Cyclofem in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru,”
Contraception, 11/97, pp. 353–359)
Is anyone else noticing a trend here? They tested the combination
tetanus/pregnancy vaccination in Mexico and the Philippines. Now women in
Brazil, Chile, Columbia, and Peru are the guinea pigs. Why not China, India,
and Thailand? Why are they specifically targeting CATHOLIC women?
evelyn
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 13:55:01 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Japan follows dictates of reason re: unnatural birth control
Message-ID: <8c562408.35422377@aol.com>
The following also from the American Life League's Communiques:
http://www.all.org/resource/cq980320.htm
JAPAN: Japan’s welfare ministry announced it had postponed the lifting
of a government ban on the birth control pill.
(Reading: “Japan Again Delays Approval of Pill,” release from Father
Anthony Zimmerman, Nagoya, Japan, 3/14/98)
PILL WARNING: In a letter to the Japanese newspaper, Seitaro Matsunaga,
pharmacist/scientist John Wilks writes, “Let there be no
misunderstanding—the pill is bad medicine. In over two years of
researching the medical literature on artificial hormones, which led me
to read more than 350 medical journals, books and news reports, the same
message kept coming through. Women are being treated like experimental
guinea- pigs by multi-national pharmaceutical companies with one aim
only: corporate profit.”
(Reading: untitled release from the Drug Information Centre of Western
Sydney [Australia], 2/2/98)
(Resource: John Wilks’ exposé of harmful birth control, A Consumer’s
Guide to the Pill and Other Drugs, is available from American Life
League)
How come in Japan REASON supercedes POLITICS? What makes them so special?
evelyn
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 21:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: mcclamro@concentric.net
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Re: Janet Reno defines "cultist"
Message-ID: <199804260111.VAA12060@newman.concentric.net>
You (Evymaria) quote the following, attributed to Attorney General Janet Reno:
>"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second
> Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high
> level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools for their
> children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the
> Second Amendment; and who distrusts big government. Any of these may<<<
> qualify [a person as a cultist] but certainly more than one [of these]<<<
> would cause us to look at this person as a threat, and his family as being
> in a risk situation that qualifies for government interference."
>
> -Attorney General Janet Reno, Interview on 60 Minutes, June 26, 1994 >>
I answer:
Well, let's see how my family and I stack up.
Strong belief in the Bible? Yes, because the Catholic Church, founded by
Our Lord Himself, gave us the Bible (the whole Bible, not the one with some
parts cut out that the Protestants use), and the Church guarantees the
authority of the Bible.
And the Second Coming of Christ? Yes--a future event that no one knows the
time of, according to Our Lord. He also said it would happen when people
weren't expecting it--making it, perhaps, especially *unlikely* to happen
around the turn of the millennium.
Frequently attends Bible studies? Well, I frequently participate in e-mail
discussions that have some relation to things the Bible says.
High level of financial giving to a Christian cause? Well--what does she
mean by "high"? Tithing is still the preferred procedure, so I guess that
counts.
Home school our children? Yes! Benefits of individualized instruction and
all that, you know. Also, our kids tend to have better opportunities for
socialization, and considerably less contact with juvenile delinquents, than
do the children of people who aren't "cultists" according to the foregoing
standards.
Accumulated survival foods? Well, we've received the Blessed Sacrament many
times, and Our Lord promises eternal "survival" to those who receive Him
faithfully.
Strong belief in the Second Amendment? Yes, the right to bear arms should
not be abridged to the extent that it promotes the functioning of a genuine,
well-regulated militia, as distinct from an unregulated, illegal fake
militia, or no militia at all.
Distrust of big government? You bet! Principle of subsidiarity and all
that, you know. See also G. Washington, J. Madison, A. Lincoln, et al.
The outlook seems pretty bleak for our family--and yet, in the almost four
years since June 26, 1994, we've heard nothing directly from Ms. Reno or her
subordinates, and we haven't been subjected to any government interference
other than the ordinary sort that goes on all the time. Maybe too many of
the faithful are praying too hard; maybe God's "strong right arm" is holding
back the government interferers from fulfilling all their desires. After
all, even Satan can do only the evil that God allows him to do, and the
fervent prayers of the righteous can accomplish much. More prayers, please!
God bless you! Vivat Christus Rex!
David McClamrock
Please pray for the conversion of a *great many* sinners, especially before
and during the year 2000!
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cinlife Mon, 27 Apr 1998 Volume 1 : Number 87
In this issue:
Constitution Impotent when divorced from scriptural foundation.
Re: Feminists For Life
Bill Gates Cotributes to Pro-Abortion UN Group
24 out of 27 studies showed a much higher risk of breast cancer in woman having abortions. Choose life!
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:52:17 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Cc: F16Mach2@aol.com, Bikermm@aol.com, Lion4Lamb@aol.com, bjhagan@juno.com,
jjfallon@juno.com
Subject: Constitution Impotent when divorced from scriptural foundation.
Message-ID: <3ff123e1.35435833@aol.com>
Dave McClamrock writes:
"Strong belief in the Second Amendment? Yes, the right to bear arms should
not be abridged to the extent that it promotes the functioning of a genuine,
well-regulated militia, as distinct from an unregulated, illegal fake
militia, or no militia at all."
Without the ability to keep and bear arms, we could not have fought the
Revolutionary War, and King George knew that. Our Founders understood well
from their own experience the need of protection of the governed from the
government. A decent government need not fear the governed, anyway. I think
in the current political climate where the Supreme Court and lower courts have
usurped the power to rewrite, reinterpret, and abbreviate the Constitution,
citizens and justice be darned, we had better resist tooth and nail any
attempt against any right it guarantees, as well as any further attempts to
create "special rights" for certain categories of Americans.
What I've been reading lately about the Constitution is right. It was
designed by people who reverence God and His truth and justice for people who
reverence God and His truth and justice.
When Americans reject that foundation the Constitution becomes a straw man.
It no longer protects the righteous, but empowers the unrighteous against
them.
Without scriptural backing, the Constitution is impotent, and this country
reverts to the law of the jungle.
I hope it's not too late to repent.
evelyn
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:06:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Anthony Parlin <sp322990@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
To: cinlife <cinlife@cin.org>
Subject: Re: Feminists For Life
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.93.980426130040.23172E-100000@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Marilyn Dickstein Kopp, president of Ohio Feminists For Life, will be
presenting a compelling case againist abortion at Ohio University in
Athens Ohio on April 29th. The talk, which is free and open to the public,
will be held in Morton Hall room 201 at 7:00 p.m. Those in the area are
encouraged to attend this not often heard prolife perspective.
For more information contact:
Steve Parlin
(740) 594-1327
sp322990@oak.cats.ohiou.edu
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 22:57:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Ertelt <ertelt@indy.net>
To: Steven Ertelt <ertelt@indy.net>
Subject: Bill Gates Cotributes to Pro-Abortion UN Group
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980426225523.5781F-100000@indy1>
Bill Gates Gives To Population Control Fund
NEW YORK -- The pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
announced on Wednesday that Microsoft Co. chairman Bill Gates, the
wealthiest man in the United States, donated $1.7 million to the fund
which seeks to "limit population growth" in poor nations through abortion.
The William H. Gates Foundation, founded by the technology tycoon and
his wife, gave the money to cover a three-year grant for population
programs, including a nation-to-nation technology exchange, and for a
five-year review of the pro-abortion 1994 Cairo population conference. The
Gates foundation has been active in the population and reproductive
science fields, awarding previous grants for research on contraceptives
and last year giving Johns Hopkins University money to use technology to
address the so-called over- population problem.
Gates, who has a reported net worth of $40 billion, joins the list of
big-name donors to the UN which includes media tycoon Ted Turner who gave
the organization a $1 billion, five-year grant last October for use in
several projects.
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In this issue:
Re: cinlife V1 #87
uh-oh! They're in trouble now!
Pro Lifers confident of victory
Scheidler's got no bucks --
UNborn babies prefer classical music?
NY Post has a pro life article?
24 out of 27 studies showed a much higher risk of breast cancer in woman having abortions. Choose life!
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:18:48 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Re: cinlife V1 #87
Message-ID: <9860c27e.354493cb@aol.com>
In a message dated 98-04-27 07:07:27 EDT, Steve Ertelt writes:
<< The pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
announced on Wednesday that Microsoft Co. chairman Bill Gates, the
wealthiest man in the United States, donated $1.7 million to the fund
which seeks to "limit population growth" in poor nations through abortion.
>>
In 1991, the World Health Organization estimated that approximately 5,000
people become infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) every
single day. Since 1989, the number of 13- to 24-year-olds with AIDS has
increased by 77 percent. ("Quick Facts on Safe Sex", 1993, 1994, Focus on the
Family, Colorado Springs, CO 80995)
Well. It looks like the overpopulation-paranoids' worries will soon be over.
Maybe WHO's anti-people agenda is the reason for HIV's special rights status
among epidemics. I think that humanity will soon be very, very sorry for
tampering with God's excellent plan for them.
Evelyn
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:49:25 -0700
From: Sue Widemark <swidemark@uswest.net>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Cc: cinmain@cin.org, cinhealth@cin.org
Subject: uh-oh! They're in trouble now!
Message-ID: <35457BF5.171E@uswest.net>
Human Life International, the same group who exposed the World Health
Organization for sneaking birth control to women in the third world (and
telling them they were getting a tetanus shot!) is on to the deception
and lying of Planned Parenthood and plans to tell people about it.
To launch their all-out campaign, HLI sent out a letter chock full of
facts about Planned Parenthood, the REAL Planned Parenthood, hardly the
benevelent organization they tell people they are. If you haven't
received this letter, you can probably pick it up at HLI's web site,
www.hli.org or call HLI and ask them to send it to you. No pro lifer
should be without it. It's all documented and it's good!
Highlights include the financial breakdown of Planned Parenthood's
income. Unbelievable and HLI pulled the 1997 financial statement which,
if you thought the 1992 financial statement was bad, wait until you see
this. Unbelievable!
The income of Planned Parenthood is 531 million a year! Here's the
percentage breakdown:
34 percent from the fees charged at their clinics (abortions,
vasectomies, birth control pills)
33.5 percent comes from OUR tax dollars (isn't THAT special? That's
almost 178 million, by the way!)
26 percent comes from grants from foundations and corporations.
5.8 percent from various other sources including grants to the Alan
Guttmacher Institute, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood.
Approximately 118 million of the clinic income came from selling birth
control devices. Almost 71 percent of Planned Parenthood clients use the
birth control (abortifacient) pill resulting in a profit of $65 million
from selling the pill.
Of course, they SAY they don't sell abortions to the clients. Afterall,
they have counselors, they tell us who tell clients their options. But
in a survey of women who received abortions from Planned Parenthood:
60 percent say the counselor had "very strongly influenced them" to
choose abortion as the best solution to their problem.
90 percent say that there was "a strong chance" they would not have
chosen abortion if they "had not been so strongly encouraged to abort".
Over 60 percent were hoping to find an alternative when they went to
Planned Parenthood.
95 percent said the counselors gave "little or no biological
information" about the unborn baby which the abortion would destroy.
80 percent said counselors gave "little to no information" about the
potential health risks of abortion.
Planned Parenthood is pro choice only if the choice is abortion, I
guess!
Oh and by the way, unless you agree with their pro sex, pro death
agenda, you are a "religious political extremist".
The more incredible, I've saved for last. You know the partial birth
abortion i.e. the one where they deliver the baby (over 24 weeks old
i.e. most of them are viable) partially up to the head and then, stick a
scissors in the head, make a hole and suction the brains out to collapse
the baby's head - that gruesome abortion which Congress is trying to ban
and which, even many pro choice people are against? Here is the way
Planned Parenthood describes the partial birth abortion:
"Some providers use a three step D&E procedure instead of the induction
method for abortions after 24 weeks. In the first two steps, the cervix
is dilated several times until it is wide enough to allow removal of the
fetus with grasping instruments."
That's it - that's their description of the partial birth abortion.
If you have some bucks to spare, I am sure HLI would appreciate a
donation to help in this campaign. They won't do it halfway. Fr Marx
wasn't called "Public Enemy #1" by Planned Parenthood for no reason. I'm
sure he well earned the title (and is proud of it).
Write to:
Human Life International
4 Family Life, Front Royal, VA, 22630 USA
voice phone: 540-635-7884 * fax: 540-622-2838 *
Internet http://www.hli.org
Sue Widemark
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:42:10 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Pro Lifers confident of victory
Message-ID: <b29a6182.35457a43@aol.com>
US PRO-LIFERS CONFIDENT ABOUT APPEAL
CHICAGO, Apr 21 (LSN) The Pro-Life Action League issued an
optimistic-sounding press release yesterday in the wake of its legal setback
in the racketeering case. Executive director Joseph Scheidler said, "We're
expecting a solid victory at the appellate level, if not sooner after
post-trial motions are filed. Scheidler also noted that a defeat at the
initial trial was expected since the "plaintiffs' case was [so] full of lies
and misstatements It was nearly impossible to sift through it all to discern
the truth." Pro-life lawyers on the case began preparing post-trial motions.
They suspected an unjust ruling after presiding judge David Coar permitted
pro-abortion prosecuting attorneys to refer to material about arson and
murder despite initial attempts to have these references banned from the
courtroom.
In the civil suit between the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two
abortion mills, a US federal jury decided yesterday that Operation Rescue,
the Pro-Life Action League, and their leaders were guilty of racketeering
charges under a contrived application of the Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law. Although the total award to the two
abortuaries involved will total around $258,000 (US) after RICO tripling of
the penalty, the class-action suit has opened the door for "damage" claims
from the 1,000 abortion mills across the US. "They want to bankrupt us --
there's no question about that." Mr. Scheidler said. Wendy Crew, a lawyer
for the New Woman All Women abortion mill, -- the Alabama abortuary that was
bombed recently -- called the judgment "delightful and thrilling." "It's
certainly something we will study immediately to determine whether it would
apply here," she said.
The Catholic Church has spoken out against the ruling. Chicago's Cardinal
Francis George issued a statement yesterday calling the verdict "unjust."
The cardinal noted that "If the courts had been used to stop the organized
sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South in the 60's, there would have
been no civil rights movement." Moreover, Chicago's top prelate said that
the Archdiocese would consider joining an appeal of the decision. "I will
continue to pray for the defendants in the case, who are enduring tremendous
adversity to uphold the principle of freedom of speech for all Americans, he
added.
From Rome, Fr. Frank Pavone, International Director of Priests For Life and
an official of the Pontifical Council for the Family at Vatican City, also
condemned the ruling saying, "The verdict in the NOW vs. Scheidler case is
so unjust that I consider it my duty to call for a sustained, public
resistance to this decision. "I have stood with these defendants in cities
throughout this nation, and am proud and honored to have cooperated in their
activities, all of which have been consistent with the moral law," said Fr.
Pavone. "I will continue to do so, and to see to it that countless others do
so as well."
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:48:31 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Scheidler's got no bucks --
Message-ID: <a93b3182.35457bc0@aol.com>
U.S. PRO-LIFERS UNABLE TO PAY UNJUST SETTLEMENT
CHICAGO, Apr 22 (LSN) "A million dollars, a billion dollars, a trillion
dollars, the national debt -- they won't get it,'' said prominent U.S.
pro-life leader Joseph Scheidler, reacting to a recent court ruling awarding
$258,000 (US) in damages to two abortuaries, in the NOW v. Scheidler case.
"You can't get blood from a turnip -- and we're turnips," he said.
The pro-aborts' case, based on the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (RICO) law, has opened the door to similar suits by the nearly
1,000 abortion mills across the US; but Larry Crane, counsel for
co-defendant Operation Rescue, agreed with Mr Schiedler. "There's no chance
or likelihood of collecting any judgment against these impecunious
defendants," he said.
The outrageous ruling in the Scheidler case has shocked even abortion
supporters. In an editorial yesterday, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times
wrote, "We have consistently supported a woman's right to an abortion But
this ruling has more to do with free speech than the right to an abortion."
The Sun noted that the acts of civil disobedience which the defendants
engaged in, such as abortuary blockades, are covered by specific laws; but
with the pro-aborts' use of the RICO law, the editorial concluded, "we can
only
wonder about the course of the civil rights and, even, the women's
movements."
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:58:45 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinhealth@cin.org
Cc: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: UNborn babies prefer classical music?
Message-ID: <a53ff783.35457e27@aol.com>
Unborn Babies Early Listeners
Source: The London Times, March 30
London -- Three weeks after being born, babies heard music they heard
before, when in the womb. Those that heard the music before ere soothed,
suggesting they remembered the tune.
Unborn babies can hear and remember sounds in the womb at 20 weeks after
conception, according to research in Britain. Fetal learning had been
thought to start at 24 weeks, the legal limit on abortion in Britain, but
scientists Sunday claimed to show that organs in the upper brain developed
earlier.
Pro-life groups hailed the finding as evidence of the humanity of a fetus
at an age when it can still be legally aborted in Britain. Both sides are
gearing up for a fight later this year over moves in Parliament to make
the law even more pro-abortion.
Until now it was assumed that fetal awareness depended on the development
of the cortex, the upper part of the brain, but behavioral psychologists
Stephen Evans, from Keele University, and Richard Parncutt, from Bath
University,indicated that memory and perception can develop in the
thalamus, the lower part of the brain previously thought too primitive to
store memory.
Ten pregnant women listened to cassettes of obscure Welsh and Devonshire
folk music at a volume loud enough to be heard above a washing machine but
not loud enough to annoy neighbors. Another five pregnant women acted as
controls and were not given any music.
Three weeks after the babies were born, they were videoed listening to the
music and their reactions, using "kick rates," were recorded. The less
babies kick, the more soothed they are. Kick rates for the babies whose
mothers had listened to music were on average below half that of those who
had "heard" no music while in the womb, suggesting that fetuses can
recognize and remember sounds at 20 weeks.
Evans said Sunday at the British Psychological Society annual conference
in Brighton: "When you see the videos of the babies, there is a real
contrast in their behavior. The babies who recognize the music look
completely still and limp."
There were implications, also, for the way babies might be affected by
what was happening around them while they were in the womb.
Evans said: "If the mother is involved in [an argument], the fetus is
hearing that at the same time as the mother. The baby could be frightened
of its father's voice, associating it with the unpleasant memory." He
thought it might be a good idea for mothers to talk reassuringly to their
unborn babies.
Paul Tully, spokesman for the Society for the Protection of the Unborn
Child, said the research confirmed anecdotal evidence. "We take this as
support for what we've been saying. It's another piece in the final
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 03:52:39 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: NY Post has a pro life article?
Message-ID: <57ca6b87.35458ac8@aol.com>
MOVIE OUTLINES ANTI-LIFE PRELUDE TO NAZI HOLOCAUST
MANHATTAN, Apr 27 (LSN) A documentary film by Israeli filmmaker Nitzan
Aviram opened last week at the Manhattan Film Forum, showing how the Nazi
holocaust began with the "mercy killing" of the mentally and physically
handicapped, at the hands of German doctors. The film, "Healing by Killing,"
was reviewed Saturday in a New York Post editorial, with astonishingly
pro-life commentary. The author says that "it doesn't take an Aldous Huxley
to foresee how the legality and social acceptability of abortion, combined
with in vitro genetic testing, could lead to the extermination in the womb
of those likely to be a "burden" to themselves, their parents or society."
Please pass on a note to the editors of the Post, thanking them for their
courage in denouncing this particular manifestation of the culture of death.
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cinlife Wed, 29 Apr 1998 Volume 1 : Number 89
In this issue:
Armed resistance?
Re: cinlife V1 #88
Re: cinlife V1 #88
pro-life extremist Jesus fans (fanatics)
Doctors describe stabbing of retarded twin
I saw you...
24 out of 27 studies showed a much higher risk of breast cancer in woman having abortions. Choose life!
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 07:12:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: mcclamro@concentric.net
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Armed resistance?
Message-ID: <199804281112.HAA25472@marconi.concentric.net>
You (evelyn) write:
>Without the ability to keep and bear arms, we could not have fought the
>Revolutionary War, and King George knew that. Our Founders understood well
>from their own experience the need of protection of the governed from the
>government. A decent government need not fear the governed, anyway.
I answer:
If the government were decent and many of the governed were indecent (rather
than the other way around), the government might well need to fear the
governed. In any event, if the government is *not* decent, ordinarily it
still isn't all right to oppose the government by force of arms. The Roman
government under the emperor Nero was not decent, but armed resistance to it
still wasn't justified. The Church has set forth very strict standards for
justifying armed resistance to oppression, which I'll quote from the
Catechism (2243) for your convenience:
>Armed *resistance* to oppression by political authority is not legitimate,
>unless all the following conditions are met: 1) there is certain, grave,
and >prolonged violation of fundamental rights; 2) all other means of
redress have >been exhausted; 3) such resistance will not provoke worse
disorders; 4) there >is well-founded hope of success; and 5) it is
impossible reasonably to foresee >any better solution.
You write:
>I think
>in the current political climate where the Supreme Court and lower courts have
>usurped the power to rewrite, reinterpret, and abbreviate the Constitution,
>citizens and justice be darned, we had better resist tooth and nail any
>attempt against any right it guarantees, as well as any further attempts to
>create "special rights" for certain categories of Americans.
I answer:
In the context of a discussion of the right to bear arms, what you're saying
seems disturbingly hard to distinguish from the following: "We had better
shoot federal law-enforcement officers if they attempt to enforce any
interpretation of the Constitution that we believe to be incorrect." Maybe
you had better clarify what you mean--without delay. If you seriously
believe that shooting law-enforcement officers would be justified according
to the criteria quoted above, you had better be prepared to meet with some
serious disagreement, to say the least. If you don't, then please explain
very clearly what you do believe.
God bless you! Vivat Christus Rex!
David McClamrock
Please pray for the conversion of a *great many* sinners, especially before
and during the year 2000!
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:35:56 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Re: cinlife V1 #88
Message-ID: <a0df563.3545e94d@aol.com>
In a message dated 98-04-28 05:11:52 EDT, you write:
<< Planned Parenthood is pro choice only if the choice is abortion, I
guess! >>
This has been obvious from the beginning. If they truly favored "choice" they
wouldn't be so vicious about silencing and disabling pro-lifers, and even the
medical community at large. They're just about as pro-choice as Henry Ford
was with his Model T when he said, "They can have any color they want as long
as it's black."
(Not to villianize Mr. Ford, please, he was only talking about car paint.)
evelyn
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:01:19 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Cc: Lion4Lamb@aol.com
Subject: Re: cinlife V1 #88
Message-ID: <ac6d04e9.3545ef40@aol.com>
In a message dated 98-04-28 05:11:52 EDT, you write:
<< In the civil suit between the National Organization for Women (NOW) and two
abortion mills, a US federal jury decided yesterday that Operation Rescue,
the Pro-Life Action League, and their leaders were guilty of racketeering
charges under a contrived application of the Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law. >>
<<Pro-life lawyers...suspected an unjust ruling after presiding judge David
Coar permitted pro-abortion prosecuting attorneys to refer to material about
arson and
murder despite initial attempts to have these references banned from the
courtroom.>>
And so we have an illustration of government without God. When the government
exiles God, the government becomes "God." This case should have been laughed
out of court. Joe Schiedler was only offering women the natural choice to
give life. The opposition is attempting to "choose" FOR their clients by
pushing only their choice.
Which leaves me with a question. If, NOW is so pro-woman, why don't they
insist that little girl pre-borns be protected from abortion? Does it make
sense for one woman to kill another for the sake of women's "rights"?
evelyn
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:08:13 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Cc: Lion4Lamb@aol.com
Subject: pro-life extremist Jesus fans (fanatics)
Message-ID: <3ae8856b.3545f0df@aol.com>
Subj: Re: cinlife V1 #88
Date: 98-04-28 10:43:23 EDT
From: Evymaria
To: cinlife@cin.org
In a message dated 98-04-28 05:11:52 EDT, you write:
<< Oh and by the way, unless you agree with their pro sex, pro death
agenda, you are a "religious political extremist".
>>
Here's a quote from Barry Goldwater for you:
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And
let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue!"
(from speech accepting presidential nomination, July 16, 1994; written by Karl
Hess)
Also notice that it's o.k. for the opposition to call names, but if WE call
them to account in any way they scream "bigot! pharisee! intolerant!" and
try to label our most precious faith in our God as superstition.
evelyn
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:48:32 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Doctors describe stabbing of retarded twin
Message-ID: <3aeb2ae4.3546cd42@aol.com>
Two obstetricians who killed a retarded child in utero published an article
describing their action in one of the foremost medical journals in the nation.
When a woman carrying twins, one with Down's Syndrome, was referred to Drs
Thomas D Kerenyl and Usha Chitkara of Mt. Sinae School of Medicine in New
York, the doctors explained that they might be able to destroy the Down's
Syndrome child without physically damaging the other twin. The mother agreed
to the procedure.
The doctors then proceeded to carefully stab the child in the heart and draw
out half his blood. The child died, but was not aborted. Several months
later, the other twin twin was born alive and the dead child's body was
delivered with the placenta.
On two previous occasions, other doctors have attempted what they describe as
"cardiac puncture" as a method of eugenic selection between twins. In one
case, both twins were aborted a few a few weeks after one was killed. In the
other case, the unharmed twin was born seven months prematurely.
The stabbing, described in the "New England Journal of Medicine" (6-31-81) was
observed using ultra sound equipment, which made it possible to watch the
events in utero. The mother was in her twentieth week of pregnancy.
Ultrasound scanning produced a moving picture of the inside of her uterus on a
small television screen. Keeping his eye on the screen, Kerenyi inserted a
needle into her abdomen, through the amniotic sac of the targeted baby and
into his heart. The heart was less than an inch wide, but Kerenyl hit it on
his second try. He withdrew about an ounce of blood (40 to 50 percent of the
baby's total blood volume). The heartbeat began to slow, and gradually
stopped.
Kerenyl knew that the retarded child had been located above the normal one at
the time of the amniocentesis (the procedure which identified one of the twins
as having Downs Syndrome) but the babies might have exchanged positions after
that. To make sure he destroyed the handicapped twin, Kerenyl sent the
extracted blood for genetic analysis. Three days after the stabbing, the
mother heard the results from the laboratory: the destroyed child was the one
with Down's Syndrome.
The condition for which the boy was killed, Down's Syndrome, produces some
mental retardation, but many Down's syndrome children learn to function well
and the condition is usally not serious enough to require
institutionalization.
The doctors used a collection of medical euphemisms to describe the stabbing.
Besides "cardiac puncture" they also spoke of "selective termination" of the
"abnormal fetus", "the procedure", "a destructive procedure" (referring to the
possibility of stabbing the wrong twin), "fetal demise", and "correct
intracardiac placement of the needle".
Ironically, the article about stabbing an unborn child was immediately
followed in the NEJM by an article about the successful treatment for unborn
children with congestive heart failure.
Dr J.C. Willke, of the National Right To Life committee, in describing the
destruction of the Down's Syndrome child, said, "This was an innocent human
baby, whose only fault was that he wasn't as perfect as someone wanted him to
be."
"This is an elite mentality," Willke continued, "that we shrink from in
sorrow. It says in effect, 'Look little guy, you just don't measure up to our
standards of physical and mental perfection and so we don't have any room for
you in this world of ours."
"How has it happened," Dr Willke asked, "that the medical profession has
turned to exterminative medicine and turned away from its time honored charge
to only cure?"
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 02:48:45 EDT
From: Swidema <Swidema@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: I saw you...
Message-ID: <c897de4.3546cd4e@aol.com>
"I saw your remains lying in a petri dish. You'd think they'd hide something
like that. I suppose they must have assumed that since I was on a reasonably
high dosage of muscle relaxers, I wouldn't look for you. Well, there you
were, right in front of me, starring bluntly into my face after being sucked
out of my belly with no mercy whatsoever."
"How could I take my eyes off you? How could I possibly forget? Yes, I saw
you."
"Your tiny hands, barely formed, were drenched in blood and mucus. They
weren't connected to anything except a ball of my insides, spread out and
sticking to the glass surface. I had nothing to hold onto except a crystal.
Can you believe that? A lousey crystal. No hand was there to embrace my
pain. No image in my mind was clear enough to comfort me. There was only the
nurse, waiting in the corner, anxious to get on to the next patient so she
could go home and feed her children and hold them close to her while the storm
outside passed over..."
"I couldn't even hold on to you..."
"When you were inside of me, I waltzed around with a box of Ritz Crackers,
savoring the feelings of nausia and discomfort. I wore those oversized
overalls that pregnant women wear when their bellies are about to burst. It
was almost as if I was living in the fantasy that in six months, you would
emerge from my tired body and the two of us would live happily ever after. I
imagined my stomach growing every day, pulsing with your still life. But I
knew somewhere inside of me. I know that you were only a figment of what I
imagined. Somewhere inside of me. I knew I couldn't believe in another life
until I believed in my own."
"I thought somehow your spirit would melt away within your distorted body,
that you'd vanish from my life as soon as they cut you off."
"Eleven months later, and you've found me. You follow me around dragging your
doll by its legs, asking for forgiveness. Too much time has passed, my sweet.
But what could I have done before? What could I have done, after seeing you
trapped by glass walls and a microscope. And me, trapped inside of a box of
crackers..."
(An honest, true account from a 19 year old woman. After the abortion, she
had to drop out of college and go into therapy. Since the remains of the baby
must be kept to examine to make sure no fetal parts are left in the patient,
many women end up seeing their babies in pieces as this woman did - it is then
that they realize that what they had aborted was a baby and not, as they had
been told, "a blob of tissue", for the body parts, perfectly formed are very
recognizable. Usually the abortionist has left and gone on to the next
patient and the now, distraught patient gets little consolation from the aides
who have helped in the abortion since few of them can, themselves, deal well
with the tiny infant who has just been killed. The so- called feeling of
relief which Planned Parenthood describes as the "usual" feeling after an
abortion is often short lived and replaced by the horror a woman feels when
she realizes that she has had her own baby killed).
The above first person account was something I "found" when cleaning up my
desk which had not been cleaned for years. There is no origin printed on the
page but I think it may have originated in the COR newsgram several years ago.
(Children of the Rosary - COR@getnet.com)
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cinlife Thu, 30 Apr 1998 Volume 1 : Number 90
In this issue:
Administrative stuff
Re: cinlife V1 #89
News Clips from American Life League's "Communique"
Someone’s Precious Child
w h e n t h e d o l l b r e a k s
Florida and pro life license plates
24 out of 27 studies showed a much higher risk of breast cancer in woman having abortions. Choose life!
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:52:59 -0700
From: Sue Widemark <swidemark@uswest.net>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Administrative stuff
Message-ID: <3546DC5B.3A86@uswest.net>
A reminder that if you hit "REPLY" to a CINLIFE digest, it puts a
generic subject line in there "RE:CINLIFE #66", for example rather than
the subject line of the message to which you are replying. It makes it
nice for the digest contents list if the subjects are changed from the
generic subject line to the subject being covered in the post.
You folks are awesome. We have some super posters on this list which
makes it nice for all of us. We are growing larger and that means the
word is getting out. I feel that we ARE beginning to win the fight for
life - hang in there!
God bless you!
Sue, your moderator
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:01:24 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Re: cinlife V1 #89
Message-ID: <6a318f53.35474ed6@aol.com>
Regarding Second Ammendment rights (and all the other constitution rights as
well):
I said we had better RESIST, not << shoot federal law-enforcement officers if
they attempt to enforce any interpretation of the Constitution that we
believe to be incorrect." >>
My point was only that there is very strong trend to dismantle the
Constitution and we had better RESIST it by all means LEGAL before it succeeds
and leaves us with no other choice than to live as communists.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed,--That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish
it, and to institute a new government. . ."
Wow! That's really scary, isn't it? I wonder what Thomas Jefferson REALLY
meant. . .
evelyn
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 23:54:33 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: News Clips from American Life League's "Communique"
Message-ID: <1fba80f0.3547f5fb@aol.com>
News Clips from American Life League's "Communique"
NORPLANT: Associated Press reports “a woman who had her 11-year-old
daughter fitted with the Norplant contraceptive to conceal her husband’s
sexual abuse of the girl has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.”
(Reading: untitled article, Associated Press, 4/1/98)
TARGETING: Doctors from the Foundation for Blood Research in Maine have
discovered that by combining two blood tests, they can detect Down’s
Syndrome with 60% accuracy. Associated Press reports that “among the
advantages is the possibility of performing a less-complicated abortion
earlier in pregnancy” since the tests can be used between 9 and 15 weeks
gestational age.
(Reading: “Test Can Detect Fetal Disorder, Study Contends,” Associated
Press, 4/2/98)
NEW YORK: Cellular biologist Stuart A. Newman has applied for a patent
on a method of creating entities that are partially human and partially
animal “in a calculated move designed to reignite debate about the
morality of patenting life forms and engineering human beings,” reports
The Washington Post. Newman considers such research “unethical and
immoral.”
(Reading: “Patent Sought on Making of Part-Human Creatures,” Washington
Post, 4/2/98, p. A12)
imposed death
NOTE: We will no longer use euthanasia, mercy killing or
physician-assisted suicide as headlines for items dealing with direct
killing of the chronically ill, terminally ill, aging and infirm.
“Euthanasia,” for instance, means “good death.” An imposed death is not
a “good” death; nor is it an example of “mercy.” The term imposed death
more accurately reflects our understanding of this aspect of the culture
of death.
(Reading: “What Is ‘Imposed Death’?” Euthanasia: Imposed Death, Human
Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund, 1997, p. 3)
victory
JAPAN: Japan’s welfare ministry announced it had postponed the lifting
of a government ban on the birth control pill.
(Reading: “Japan Again Delays Approval of Pill,” release from Father
Anthony Zimmerman, Nagoya, Japan, 3/14/98)
zinger
MEDIA ABSOLUTES!?!
“The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness
enveloping Europe this Christmas…. He is about the only ruler left on
the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all.”
Editorial, The New York Times, 12/25/41
“A full exploration of Pope Pius’s conduct is needed…. It now falls to
John Paul and his successors to take the next step toward full
acceptance of the Vatican’s failure to stand squarely against the evil
that swept across Europe.”
Editorial, The New York Times, 3/18/98
planned parenthood
HAWAII: Planned Parenthood of Hawaii changed its name to Family Planning
Centers of Hawaii, Inc., after it was “disaffiliated” by the national
headquarters of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The reason:
money. The Honolulu Advertiser reports the state chapter owed the
national office $500,000.
(Reading: “Family Planning Group Renamed,” Honolulu Advertiser, 2/11/98)
MISSOURI: Pro-life legislators will not be allowed to enter into a legal
battle that has already pitted Planned Parenthood against the state. In
1996, the Missouri health department excluded Planned Parenthood from
state funding because of the organization’s involvement in abortion.
Planned Parenthood is suing the state.
(Reading: “Abortion Opponents Are Banned from Lawsuit,” St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, 2/26/98)
Post-Dispatch, 2/26/98)
population control
PERU: Due to the efforts of the Population Research Institute, Concerned
Women for America and other groups, enough pressure was placed on the
government of Peru that it has abandoned a sterilization campaign that
affected thousands of poor women.
(Reading: “Peru Drops Sterilization Campaign,” Associated Press,
2/25/98)
(Contact: Population Research Institute, 5119A Leesburg Pike, Suite 295,
Falls Church, VA 22041; Concerned Women for America, 370 L’Enfant
Promenade, SW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20024)
NEW YORK: The newsletter “Sex etc.” was removed from public school
classrooms following a number of complaints (see communiqué, 3/6/98).
However, Dr. Liliana Trivelli Alessandri reports that because of media
pressure, the newsletter is now back in schools.
victory
KENTUCKY: A jury awarded $21,000 to a woman who claimed she was the
victim of a botched abortion. Details of the case, Powell Duncan v.
Ronachai Banchongmanic, MD, are available from Amshoff, Donovan & Smith,
P.C., P.O. Box 2848, Louisville, KY 40201, phone 502-540-0065.
BILLINGS METHOD: Annual conference August 14–15 in Denver. For details:
Billings Ovulation Method Association USA, 316 N. 7th Ave., St. Cloud,
MN 56303; phone 888-637-6371; fax 320-252-2877; e-mail
nfpstc@cloudnet.com.
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 00:08:43 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org, Bikermm@aol.com
Subject: Someone’s Precious Child
Message-ID: <586f5678.3547f94c@aol.com>
Someone’s Precious Child
by Elizabeth Key, RN, BSN
winner of CNA-AJN writing contest 1993
“Your new patient is a SNF transfer without any paperwork. He was
reportedly brought from Merrywood Manor, but we called the facility and they
don’t know the man. There’s no family about. We’ll keep trying to clear this
up.
Meanwhile, see what you can do with him. He looks sick.” Mary was still not
quite indifferent to the orphaned elderly, and it often bothered her to take
care of
them in the ED. With an ease that comes with experience, however, she pushed
her
irritation below the surface and walked up to the curtained-off cubicle. She
noted
mentally: white male, 80s. What remained of his hair was fine and white,
eyes
remarkably clear and blue with large pupils, mouthful of dentures, skin
average for
age, no IV, a foley catheter that looked overdue for a change.
“Hello,” she said. The man, who had been staring straight ahead into
nothingness started and made a weak attempt at turning his head, abandoned the
effort and continued to look at empty space. “I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t mean
to
frighten you. My name is Mary and I’m your nurse. I need to take your vital
signs.
Are you having any pain or difficulty breathing?” He didn’t respond. “Do you
know where you are?” she asked.
“Of course I do,” he replied without looking at her, the annoyance apparent
in his voice. “I don’t know why I’m here. One minute I’m in my bed and the
next
minute I’m on this terribly hard gurney.”
“We’re a little puzzled too. You came from Merrywood Manor?” she
asked.
“Yes.”
“Well, they deny sending you. By the way, sir, what is your name?” She
tried to seem unfazed by the unusual situation.
“They call me Tom.”
“And your last name?”
“It doesn’t matter. Everybody calls me by my first name, whether they
know me or not. That’s the way it is now. You didn’t give me your last name
now,
did you?”
“It bothers you that strangers call you by your first name?” He hesitated,
then nodded assent. She placed her hand on his forearm and felt him suddenly
stiffen, as if startled. His closed mouth trembled slightly, and his eyes
filled with
tears, as an attempt to speak was choked by a hoarse gasp.
“That’s not all that bothers you, is it?” she ventured. A single tear broke
loose and made its way down his cheek. “Please. Take your time. It’s okay
if you
cry.”
She could not remember the last time a patient affected her this way, and was
alarmed by her feelings.
“You don’t have time to listen to an old man,” he said. She didn’t say
anything but squeezed his arm. A long moment passed. Then he spoke. “When
you
get old and your family is gone, no one really touches you. They roll you
side to
side in bed, they grab you and toss you into a wheelchair. I don’t know
what’s
worse, being handled like I’m not a person, or not being touched at all. They
seem
to forget that I was once their age. I had a life, a career, a family. They
talk about
me as if I can’t hear.” He stopped and took a deep breath. There were no
more
tears. He slowly turned his head and looked into her eyes, holding her gaze.
“You
know, I don’t see well, but you remind me of someone. She had your touch.
Your
voice even reminds me of hers.” He seemed absorbed in memory, but continued
to
stare into her eyes. His eyes seemed too clear and untouched by age, and she
felt
her heart flip over in her chest.
“You seem familiar to me too, but I don’t see how we could have met
before.” She wished she could get rid of the pounding in her ears and the
heaviness
in her shoulders.
“The person you remind me of is my mother. Her name was Mary, same as
yours.” Mary felt a chill go through her, but tried to hide her feelings.
“Isn’t that a coincidence! I do have a son, but he’s a baby. His name is
Thomas. We call him Nathan, his middle name.”
“Mary,” he said. “My first name is Tom. I went by Nathan all my life.”
There he lay before her. Nathan, 80 years from now. Her baby, all alone.
“Is this how it’s supposed to be?” she asked herself. She was sobbing so
deeply
she couldn’t catch her breath. Nathan was crying too.
“Mama!” he cried. “Mama! Mama! Mama!”
And then she was awake. Her breath was racked with great sobs still, and
she again heard her baby wailing across the hall. She jumped out of bed, went
to
Nathan’s room and snatched him from his crib, looking into his clear blue
eyes.
For the first time she knew that while she was there to help her child into
this world
she would not likely be there to help him out of it. she consoled her son,
making no
effort to stop her own tears. Mary sat and rocked her boy, imagining she was
holding the old weary Nathan of her dream. “I wish I could rock you to sleep
then,
my beautiful baby. I don’t want you to go alone.”
From then on, Mary knew that every patient was and would always be
someone’s precious child.
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 02:28:21 EDT
From: Evymaria <Evymaria@aol.com>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Cc: Swidema@aol.com, Rwgreco@aol.com, Bikermm@aol.com, F16Mach2@aol.com,
bjhagan@juno.com, mandm@csranet.com, DMMETS9@aol.com, cor@ionet.net,
Tommoffatt@aol.com, wyattfamily@sprintmail.com, jjfallon@juno.com,
AJB2@aol.com, Lion4Lamb@aol.com
Subject: w h e n t h e d o l l b r e a k s
Message-ID: <4c8c6c83.35481a07@aol.com>
w h e n t h e d o l l b r e a k s
Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D.
from: The Post-Abortion Review, Vol. 6, No. 1
The Elliot Institute
P.O. Box 7348
Springfield, IL 62791
used with permission.
I remember meeting Marita my freshman year in college. She was cute, like a
cheerleader, and had the same dynamic, enthusiastic “rah rah” personality.
Marita
had boundless energy. She was fun to be around and had a self-assured style.
At
the same time, she was still very much a little girl. She missed her parents,
made
frequent phone calls to her siblings, and had a roomful of cherished childhood
dolls
carefully displayed on ther bed pillows and bookshelves.
The first night we met, Marita told me she would remember my name because
Theresa was the name of her favorite doll, now a priceless antique. It had
been
passed down from her great-great-grandmother and was given to Marita when she
was a little girl. Marita handed me the doll, a porcelain collector’s dream,
gussied
up in an ivory silk dress and intricate lace pantaloons. Marita and I became
friends
instantly and used to share library activities like “scoping” for cute guys
behind
bookshelves.
One night at a drunken fraternity party, Marita found herself having sex with
her
boyfriend. The details were quite foggy. She didn’t remember taking her
clothes
off, but woke up naked next to the young sophomore. When Marita discovered
she
was pregnant, she had an abortion immediately and never told a soul, except
her
boyfriend and her roommate.
When Marita told me about her abortion years later, she explained that her
roommate Ruth had taken her to the clinic. Ruth had an abortion as a senior
in high
school and told Marita it was no big deal. Abortion was common on campus.
Lots
of girls had them.
After the abortion, Marita’s personality changed. She became irritable and
began
drinking all the time. She skipped classes on a regular basis, preferring to
sleep in
and snooze off each hung-over depression. Her attitude was cynical and
negative,
and she wasn’t much fun to be around. At that time, I didn’t understand what
Marita
was going through. But there were signs.
One night we gathered at Marita’s dorm for a party. We were drinking beers
when
Marita’s boyfriend jumped up and shouted, “It’s time for Baby Soccer!” There
was
a grand applause, reminiscent of the inauguration of gladiator games. Marita
brought out several doll heads which had been decapitated from their torsos,
rolling them along with her hockey stick for the grand entrance. Everyone
started
kicking the baby heads around the room in a frenzy of glee and hysterics.
They all
cheered while gulping drinks and devouring chips.
As the pastime continued, the aggression toward the baby heads became more
severe. One girl picked up a doll head and started gouging out its eyes with
a dart.
Everyone cackled with delight. Ruth began ripping out shreds of another
doll’s
hair while burning its plastic cheeks with her cigarette. This sparked her
boyfriend’s imagination. He grabbed another doll from the shelf and put the
hot
ember of his cigarette between the doll’s legs, then ripped them off, leaving
only a
melted and scarred-looking vagina hole. Ruth threw her doll head on the
floor,
stamping hard on its skull. They continued to kick the baby heads around the
room
in a hostile display of rage fused with amusement.
I learned that this had become a favorite game in the dorm. My reaction to
this
symbolic abuse was a sickening feeling in my stomach. I witnessed this
traumatic
play, unaware at the time of the psychic release of collective tension this
game was
providing. Desensitized to the authenticity of the game, I laughed along with
the
others, silently recalling all the “baby in a blender” jokes which
proliferated among
my friends.
As I picked up one of the doll heads, I was overcome with a vague familiarity.
My
heart skipped a beat when I identified the doll as “Theresa,” the porcelain
antique
which had once been Marita’s prized possession. Her face was cracked,
smashed,
and splintered, a jigsaw of fractured pieces--nearly unrecognizable. Where
the
head had been torn from the body there were razor-sharp claws of fragmented
china.
Suddenly I felt a genuine, aching grief. I feared that at any minute I might
burst into
tears. What had happened to this doll “Theresa,” passed down through
generations
of female history within Marita’s family? How did this happen? What had
happened to my friend?
The trauma was still very much a mystery to me--but I knew that something
inside
Marita had also been crushed. The desecration was reflected quite ostensibly
in
the face of her broken doll. I waited nearly a decade to discover the answer
to my
questions. Learning that Marita had suffered an abortion made everything
crystal
clear.
****
Those who study childhood trauma have documented many examples where
children work through a traumatic event by recreating aspects of their trauma
through playful games, stories, and art. Child therapists will often observe
children
playing with puppets and doll houses to get a sense of what is going on in
their
minds and families. It can be easier to express an emotional conflict by
acting it
out through a puppet figure--rather than putting oneself through subjective
introspection.
As with my classmates and the game of “Baby Soccer,” adults too can engage in
symbolic reenactment of a trauma under the disguise of games, art, music,
humor,
and other amusements. This type of play provided an outlet for grief by
replacing it
with socially acceptable acts of “baby hatred.”
Marita’s battered doll reflected the abuse of a little girl ravaged,
disfigured,
assaulted and burned. “Baby Soccer” was a sadistic “acting out” of
unconscious
repressed abortion trauma. A baby haunting her unconscious had become the
target
to be annihilated. Her battered doll’s head was a symbol of this conflict.
It is no surprise that this traumatic play so quickly became an amusement for
all to
enjoy. Like Marita, many of the young women and men drawn into this game had
also lost children to abortion. Many others had lost sisters or brothers to
abortion.
“Baby Soccer” provided a symbolic means to mock, belittle, and display mastery
over the babies who were never allowed to be born, but who still haunted their
memories.
As the group’s enthusiasm for this game demonstrated, the acting out of
post-abortion trauma can be contagious. This is especially the case when so
many
have had a direct experience with abortion. Worse, this attempt to belittle
and
master babies through play reinforced and internalized attitudes and behaviors
of
agression and hostility against babies.
If the college authorities had seen students beating up and defacing an effigy
of a
black person, or a symbol of Jewish heritage, would they not have felt
compelled to
intervene against this frightful and shocking symbolism? But what is said
about the
intolerance and contempt displayed for babies? It is unlikely that there will
ever be
a word uttered.
Collective guilt and trauma have the capacity to disguise massive injustice.
The
offensiveness of “Baby Soccer” was made socially acceptable because it
concealed this display of aggression behind the mask of a “humorously
irreverent”
diversion, so everyone laughed.
We have all learned to snicker at sick jokes and engage in scapegoating
because
these things give us momentary relief from the tension of unsettled issues.
In this
case, we were laughing with the nervous giggle of an entire culture that has
been
traumatized by the abortion of tens of millions of babies. The sheer
magnitude of it
all is too much to grasp. So it must be trivialized, reduced to laughter and
scorn, or
else we will all be crushed by the horror of it all.
That is why the belittling of children is all around us. Themes of abortion-
related
guilt, rage and anger are pervasive in modern music, art and films. “Evil
child”
movies like ‘Alien’ and ‘The Omen,’ reflect the demonization of children. The
“evil baby” is our worst nightmare--something society must destroy before it
destroys us.
This is just one of many ways that our culture has been ravaged by the
haunting
memory of aborted children. Far too many women and men have tried to contain
and control this horror through aggression and the rejection of nurturing
instincts.
They have allowed the life-giving, tender, and loving ways to be replaced with
mockery, violence, and destruction.
These are the truths recorded for all to see in the broken face of Marita’s
cherished
doll. It was a shattered face. It was the mirror image of Marita’s own
fractured
self.
Theresa Karminski Burke, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, author of Rachel’s
Vineyard, and the director of The Center For Post Abortion Healing, P.O. Box
195, Bridgeport, PA 19405, (610)626-4006. This article is an excerpt from
her
forthcoming book, Forbidden Grief. Copyright 1997 Theresa Karminski Burke.
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 02:13:58 -0700
From: Sue Widemark <swidemark@uswest.net>
To: cinlife@cin.org
Subject: Florida and pro life license plates
Message-ID: <354840D6.7BE4@uswest.net>
Florida offers 39 special license tags with messages like "Save the
Manatee" or other messages supporting education and sports teams.
Recently the legislators passed a bill which would allow another special
license plate option for pro-lifers on which the message would be
"Choose Life".
As one can expect, the bill was not passed easily. Opponents of the
bill brought up a myriad of issues against it such as it seemed to be
pushing a political agenda and that since the abortionist and the guard
were killed in Florida a few years ago, was this license plate
appropriate for Florida? Supporters of the bill called it a generic
support of life. A final stab to prevent the passage of this bill by
opponents was a suggestion that the message be changed to "Adopt a
child" but this suggestion lost by a narrow margin.
The bill passed in the State House by 71 to 41 and in the Senate by 28
to 12. Whether the governor will sign it or not, remains to be seen.
The proceeds from the sale of these pro life license tags would go to
help pregnant women and also to promote adoption.
Personally, I hope the governer of Florida DOES sign the bill and that
other states follow suit. Awesome idea for a pro lifer to have a
license plate reading "CHOOSE LIFE".
Sue
Source of article: dcampbell1@mindspring.com (source reading from
Reuters)
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