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
Sunday 27 October 2013
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 the law needs to be repealed immediately, this will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.
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