Sunday 27 October 2013

Book Review

Dear friends perhaps you might like to read this review.
I loved it.  Thank you Edward and Crisis Magazine.

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/god-man-and-abortion-a-new-summons-to-hope


Anne

Wednesday 16 October 2013

March for Babies protest-attack by anti lifers.


 

Saturday’s March for the Babies and the ensuing craziness and behaviour of pro abortion lobby gives grave concern not only for freedom of all of us  in Victoria but sets precedent for other states to be brought into disarray by those who would have a different opinion.  My right to march quietly and show support for babies who die daily at the hands of so called doctors was  compromised forever I believe. The police commissioner should hang his head in shame for not thinking that those of us who value in utero babies have a right to be protected from the violence heaped on us by a rabble mob. Had he and his underlings respected my /our right, and the right of those of us who believe that the Abortion Law of 2008 is wrong,  there would have been open protection  of those of us who were pelted, shoved, pushed, abused.  The reality was that the few police who were there were just  a“token” effort. Imagine not one arrest made of those who shoved, pushed, felled, abused the silent pro lifers inclding little ones and elderly, and this atrocity in broad daylight, on a beautiful saturday afternoon,  in “the world’s most liveable city.”  A precedent and fuel  ensured for the coming years. 

 The new law ensures abortion of babies to 40 weeks, that is full term,  when we know that infants who are wanted and are helped can survive as premature as 21 weeks.  The law and law makers in Victoria are assinine.  the law needs to be repealed immediately, this will remove  (in time) the fuel of pro abortion lobby who are now beginning to speak about “4th trimester abortion” (that is  death of babies up to 3 months after birth).   The Slippery slope has indeed been rewaxed and made more slippery. 

Further to the chaos which was the March for the Babies, we have in the new abortion laws a removal of right of conscience of doctors and medical staff to refuse to participate in an abortion.  Imagine! the Government telling us how our conscience must be dictated to by them. My own barometer for decision making removed because the Law says so.  That is what Sect. 8 of the new abortion laws does. A doctor cannot refuse to participate in an abortion, encourage a woman to rethink her decision, offer alternatives,  without threat to his own career and livelihood as we have seen with Dr Hobart and several others who have been targeted by the Medical Board.  Is this what Victoria has come to? A new socialist state?
Sect 8. which intrudes on conscience needs immediate repealing because if this continues then the future means that the government can order to  euthanase first infants and then others who do not fit criteria for making money.  “Caesar” has violently taken control of what belongs to God....life, and we are seeing the after effects of this usurping.

Saturday 5 October 2013

Forgiveness for the post abortive woman


 

To forgive means to be able to see the humanity of the other. Distorted at times. Discoloured at times. Disfigured at times, but still humanity.  To forgive  someone who has wronged does not mean that what was done was acceptable or should go unpunished but rather to cut the chords which keep on binding the wounded one with the one who has wounded.  It is these toxic ties, which continue to re wound.  The chords can be cut using more violence or by forgiveness.  Violence adds to the wounds a new dimension of pain.  Forgiveness says “no more.  you have no more power over me.  You cannot harm me again” but refrains from hurting the other. Again this adds to the dimension of humanity of both  the victim, and the perpetrator.

That’s why forgiveness is healing especially to the wounded.  Compassion and forgiveness means sharing with another their load, walking alongside, so that humanly speaking the load is lightened.  The prisoner chained in pain is still a human person in pain and chained but who still needs bandaging.

Remembering that a post abortive woman/man will suffer from lack of self esteem. Her own dislike of herself.  The barrier, which existed between herself and everyone else.  Her sense of having “lost” herself. Her belief that she is not worth living or helping.  At times even her own comments “I have killed my baby...I am a murderer I don’t deserve anything”   Her continual need to “disappear” to a “safe place” (mentally) when life difficulties arise and in that place she cannot see her life experience and her decision.  Her compulsive need to wash her hands (sense of feeling guilty  and dirty)  and her lips (because she agreed and said YES to the abortion) All these need to be recognised as signs that she cannot forgive herself and needs help in this area of her life. To begin to forgive herself so she can forgive others who “forced” “encouraged” “urged” “made” her have the abortion.  Even the medical profession who carries out these procedures.

Over time much has to be spoken about and explored and forgiven and then let go.  Many losses discussed and wept over and let go.   Loss of security. Loss of normal life without abortion in the history. Loss of femininity, loss, of confidence in mothering, loss of motherhood, loss of place in family...many losses. 

But most importantly helping the woman to see herself as good person beginning from when she was a child. To see that little girl, that continued to make progress and grow, and that the abortion, terrible as it was, has given her a new  but different opportunity at life.  An opportunity to begin again but as a different person (a mother) because now she has known suffering and loss as only a parent can know,  and has come through it, not without scars, but different because of her suffering.  She cannot go back to a time pre abortion, but she can continue in another  but equally good way. The Way of forgiveness. The Way of Jesus.