Ask Them What They Mean By Choice

A blogger whom I read, St. Blogustine, wrote this: Today NARAL(a pro-choice advocacy group) is having a pro-abortion blog bomb called "Blog for Choice Day," which "boils the blood" of Jill Stanek (pro-life advocate)and MANY OTHERS, including me.  So Jill, a champion of the unborn, has quickly and successfully implemented ASK THEM WHAT THEY MEAN BY CHOICE blog day, on which I am participating with this post.  The pro-abortionists must be corrected in their deceitful choice of words.  Make them say what the so-called CHOICE is all about.  Thank you, Jill.  You do the Lord's work!

After reading this....I knew I had to get involved and throw in my two cents. Now before people start letting their blood pressure creep on this volatile subject, let me say this......I know and love people on both sides of this issue. I and many dear friends have spent many hours as a pro-life advocate trying to educate young women on what abortion truly is and what "choice" really means when paired with abortion. I also have many friends who advocate "choice" who fight both behind and in front of the lines believing they are fighting for women and for what they believe choice to be. I also know many young women who have chosen abortion to end their pregnancies an in most cases....never was their choice an easy one and their reasons for doing this were as complex and varied as the girls themselves. However...knowing theses things and witnessing what I have witnessed in my life and in the lives of others, I have very strong opinions on the subject of abortion and using the word "choice" in a way that somehow makes abortion sound a little more pc and in the eyes of choicers apparently seems to make the end result acceptable. So I love the title Ask Them What They Mean By Choice and here are my thoughts on abortion.

Choice is a word that implies (to most) something positive. If you have a choice then you appear to have a right. Rights are good things....right? And in this country....don't we ALL have rights? And this is where the word "choice" becomes a great big FAIL! Paired with the word abortion....choice is a right only given to the few....(women) and not even ALL women at that. In this country human life is only respected and protected outside the womb. Inside the womb....human life is not acknowledged....therefore those in the womb have absolutely no rights.


Any woman who has ever carried a child inside them knows without a doubt (whether she admits it or not) that she is carrying a human life. She feels that life grow, move, and hiccup each day as her belly expands. That child inside her doesn't simply just come to life as he/she peaks its head into the world. It has been alive since conception. There is a reason that the child responds to music it heard while waiting to be born or why he/she recognizes the voices of parents and siblings who have been the focal point of the child's life while growing in the womb. Yet somehow....this isn't enough for many to admit that this life deserves the same rights as any other human life.


When considering abortion there are always two human lives involved....but only one of those lives has a "choice", a voice, a right (by law) to keep on living. When making that "choice" two human lives go into a clinic, but only one of those humans comes out alive. In our society.....many say....this is an acceptable choice for women....but they aren't even giving ALL women a choice. Think of the number of unborn women who have never had the right to decide their fate. Why? Because "choice" in terms of abortion.....was only a word used by a select few, for a select few with no respect for the rest. What human would "choose" to die by such horrendous means? There is no dignity for human life through abortion. The unborn are not sedated, handled gently or disposed of respectfully. The woman's choice results in pain (especially in late term abortions), dissection...in some cases chemical burns and other horrendous acts which if done to an already born individual would be considered cruel, sadistic and dare I say....murder. And their final resting place is a trash bag full of waste. Again I ask? Who would choose to die like this?

So going back to the topic Ask Them What They Mean By Choice.....is choice really the right word when linking it with abortion? Is there really a fair choice involved when one humans choice trumps another humans life (an innocent one at that)and sentences them to an unspeakable death?

So here's the deal. I will never agree with abortion and I will always pray for those who find abortion as a solution to a problem in their life. However....if you are going to have an abortion, support abortion, or participate in an abortion....then at least be honest about what you are doing. If you choose abortion.....this is the reality of what you mean by choice: A child was created who was not wanted for whatever reason. This child is a living human being who is in early stages of growth, but very much human and very much alive. Because you don't want this child/can't keep this child/feel like having this child may cause you mental or physical issues, rather than allow this child to have a life even if it is not with you.....you are going to have an abortion. An abortion is YOUR choice....NOT and I repeat....NOT the unborn child you carry's  choice. By having this abortion....you know this child will not be anesthetized during the last horrendous moments of his or her life. You do know that the child will be dissected and torn apart inside you....while still alive. And finally.....you have full knowledge that this child....a child you created will end up in a garbage bag and taken out with the rest of the trash and disposed of....not with any form of dignity.....but as nothing more than waste! This is what is meant by choice in the case of abortion. Also remember....that if these same acts were imposed on you....they would be considered illegal, unconscionable, unethical, and completely inhuman which would likely carry either a sentencing of life in prison or more likely a death sentence for those involved with the act. However.. do it to an innocent unborn child....it is merely a choice. A choice with no consequences which leaves many to repeat the act over and over again. If this is their idea of choice....I think I will pass.

I know there will be those who vehemently disagree with me and I am okay with that. I just believe that if you are truly going to support a woman's right to choose....then you first need to know what they mean by choice!

Don't Take Debate Just Because a Cute Guy's in Your Class OR Scratching Your Nose With Your Gun Could Cause Death

I am exhausted today....but I did it to myself. I am too old to stay up until 2 a.m. debating....when I need every precious second of beauty  sleep I can grab. That being said....I had a ball debating last night....until the person I was debating took their toys, their posts, and apparently a bad attitude and went to bed. All that debate and when it was all said and done....it looked as if I was debating myself.

A funny story about me and debating. When I was in high school....I took forensics which covered among other things....debate. I sucked at it. No...actually "sucking" would have been too kind of an adjective! Week after week I stood up and made a royal fool out of myself and lived in humiliation that whole year. Why you ask did I put myself through such torture....especially when forensics was an elective? Lets just say....there was this boy....cute, dark, and much more talented at forensics than I. Cute as he was though....another year of forensics was not in the cards for me. The details are foggy....so I can't remember if I was simply asked NOT to join again....or if my self inflicted humiliation finally got the better of me.

Then many years and many life experiences later, I found debating again. It was in the form of a politically conservative web site.(Yeah...big shock that I am a conservative!!! Get over it....I'm still funny!) Once I learned my way around debate and the etiquette (yes....there actually is a right and wrong way to do it).....then I was off. Many an evening I stayed up way past my bed time debating everything from religion, to politics, to one time I even spent hours debating dog vs. cat.

I learned early on that everyone has an opinion....but in order to debate....you better be able to back your opinion up. Also....it is NOT personal. If someone doesn't  agree with you....that is okay. Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree.

Debate is one of the greatest learning tools we have and through respectful debate....even if you don't change someones mind on a subject, you might just get them to thinking.  Notice too...that I said respectful debate! All too often, I have seen grown men and women resort to behaviors that would even be frowned on...on a playground. Someone starts taking the debate personally and then out comes the name calling, the offensive remarks, and finally the complete and total breakdown of anything remotely constructive. I often wonder if this is really how these people act when someone disagrees with them or if they are merely acting this way because they have the anonymity of the internet to hide behind. At any rate....it has always been my belief that when someone starts the insults and name calling....it is a pretty safe bet that they have run out of anything else intelligent to say.

So as I was saying....last night was kind of a treat for me because I really have tried to avoid debate for awhile now. I just wasn't up for having to explain myself fifty times while being called a terrorist, racist or some other "ist" word. But last night two topics caught my eye and  just could not go undebated. The first one was a religious topic where a picture of a baptist church in GA had a sign out front that said: Catholicism will take you to hell! There was no way THAT was going undebated. This little Roman Catholic girl attacked that like St. Michael attacking the devil. It actually was great though and the people who joined in....for the most part, used the debate as a tool for learning and trying to get to know more about the way other religions practice their worship of God. I was very pleased.

The other debate though....didn't turn out quite so well. The topic was abortion...and I landed on that with both feet. It is a hot button with me and a subject I have debated often. About two posts in.....he began calling me a "fascist" and as you can imagine....it went down hill from there. Before I knew it....he had removed all his posts and "virtually" stomped off in a huff. Apparently it was something I said!

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Just when you think you have seen and heard it all.......along comes Kamau Kambon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1YOIxtAz4
As I listened to this man speak, I had to wonder how someone can be filled with such complete hate for another human being...let alone......an entire race.

Kambon spoke such atrocious lies about how the white man wants the black man dead and that we are trying to enslave them yet again (or maybe still), that it almost left me speechless. He feels that the black man must rise up against the white man and figure out a way to rid the world of us. RID THE WORLD OF US???? Who thinks like that???

His speech was on CSPAN...but he spoke of "educating" the young 15, 16, 17 year old black youth about the evils of the white man and the need to eradicate them (my word...not his.) The scary thing is....apparently this man is an educator and this is what he is filling young black peoples minds with. Does this man not see what he is doing to these impressionable minds??? He is teaching them to hate and to kill and if he thinks this is going to be directed only at the white man....he is nuts. Hating and killing don't see skin color or race....and once fueled can become an enormous and unstoppable monster which will wipe out everything in its path. The outcome of such thinking will only bring disaster for not only white men but ALL men for when hate takes hold, destruction is never far behind.

Again I ask....how can someone hate his fellow human beings so much????

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And finally in news too ridiculous to believe......a cop shoots himself in the head while.....wait for it....wait for it..........scratching his nose with his gun!!!!
http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/113311-policeman-0/

Apparently in Russia...teaching gun safety to aspiring policemen does not include a lesson in how NOT to use your weapon as a nose scratcher. And to think....this man was hired to protect and serve.

Well folks....this is what is going on in Lisaland and beyond on this beautiful, sunny day in the heart of North America! Here's hoping that you have a wonderful weekend and that your next itch...doesn't end with a boom (yes I went there!)