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Sarah Palin Standing against the Standard

Did you know that 80% of prenatal down-sydrome diagnosis ends in abortion (ahem, genocide!)?  Yet Sarah Palin, sticking to her pro-life standard, kept her baby.  More on that here.

Government Interference in Abortion

COMMON QUESTION: What about the arguement that though I am pro-life, I don’t think it is the government’s business to interfere with laws regarding it?

MY ANSWER: I believe that the government makes laws regarding order and issues that effect other people (like murder).  I am pro-life and believe that life begins at conception.  Therefore abortion is murder.  Overturning Roe V Wade is not government interference as the government should not have legalized this form of murder in the first place.  The government over-stepped its bounds when it did so… now reversing that would be going back to making murder illegal.

Here’s and extreme example… extreme so you will get the logic that reversing RvW is not government overstepping.

EXAMPLE: Mom has had a long day, long week, and virtually long life since annoyig Junior was brought into her life.  Mom decides to end the life of this inconvenient little 4 year old.  Forever this has been considered murder.  But our “caring and compassionate” society knows what it is like when your 4-year-old get’s to be too much so they decide to make it legal to murder your children because they are inconvenient.  20 years after this decision people are still fighting to make it illegal to murder children.  Some people think they are crazy.  But there are even some that think it is a horrible thing to do, murder your child, but the government should not interfere in these matters.  Absurd isn’t it.

BUT if you are pro-life and believe that a fetus is a living human being with rights than it is just as absurd for you to think that government is overstepping to ban it.  OF COURSE if you do not believe that a fetus is a human with rights and you are pro-choice, then it is another matter.  But please don’t tell me you are pro life but that government shouldn’t interfere, because it defies logic.

Sarah Palin McCain’s VP Choice

I’m proud to be part of a generation that does not see color of skin as a disqualification for president!  Can I get an Amen?  As plainly obvious in the post below, I do not support Obama, but I do take pride in the fact that we have come so far from where the previous generation so wrongly was.

NOW McCain has made his Veep pick.  And it is not only a WOMAN, but a MOMMY.  A fifth time mom as recent as APRIL.  As a mommy myself I think this is incredible move forward for women. She has an infant and is running for Veep.  Nice.  Me next?  (Just kidding)

What a great year.

Obama, Late Term Abortion, & Infanticide. (Chicago Senate Bill 1662)

Part of me wants to chicken out of posting this video… but this time I can’t.  I have MANY dear friends that are voting for Obama this November.  I see some of the appeal.  Some of these people are some of the most sweet, compassionate, beautiful people I know.  They feel Obama is the best way to help the poor, get everyone health care, and improve our image around the world.  In some terms I disagree in others I don’t.  For example, the rest of the world will probably like us more with Obama as our president.  But when it comes down to November, for many reasons, he will not get my vote.  

A sweet friend, whom I agree with a lot politically sent me the video below.  It is hard to watch.  If you have a dry eye you are either one super anti-depressants or maybe you need a heart check.  

Last time I posted on Obama and his refusal to support the ban on Late Term Abortion (a barbaric practice) I recieved many emotional comments that took the post out of context.  With some I wonder if they even read it.  I said no where in the post that the president could overturn abortion.  I have a brain and understand how our 3 branches of government work.  Please do not comment if you did not pay careful attention to my words and watch the video attentively the whole way through.  

Why do Obamas extreme (even for his party) views of abortion ensure I will not vote for him this November? (let me be clear though, this is NOT the ONLY reason I will not vote for him, but those are other posts.) 2 main reasons:

1. It is likely the next president will be choosing a supreme court judge.  Obama would make sure a pro Roe v Wade judge is in.  McCain will more likely choose a judge that would support overturning it.  Could overturning it be a long shot?  Possibly.  But while many of those in my generation have given up on the pro-life movement even though they personally are pro-life.  I have not.  I know of no where else in our laws where we are able to murder our own people, and I consider abortion a form of murder.  Therefore I just can not follow the crowd on giving that issue up.  To me it is not a choice that fits under the free will God’s grace has given us.  

2. As my first big Obama, late term abortion post, was about…  I feel that someone that could know fully about the Late term abortion procedure and vote the way he did must have many character issues.  We may not see them yet, but that is a character issue.  And now, knowing what this video explains, that Obama at one point was in support of babies that are born alive being left to die.  I’m beyond sickened.  

Please don’t comment here about how this isn’t true when there are provable written records to prove it.

Now all disclaimer and explaining aside… the video.

EDIT A FEW HOURS LATER:
My friend Velvet who sent me the first video posted a link to this one in the comments, if you want further information watch this video.  I’m working on getting even more concrete proof.

EDIT A FEW MORE MINUTES LATER:

Here is a link to the bill that Obama Proposed.  Senate Bill 1662.  The bill basically says (if you don’t want to go to the link to see the proof.  

   Amends the Statute on Statutes.  Defines "born-alive  infant"  to
   include  every  infant  member of the species homo sapiens who is born
   alive at any stage of development.  Defines "born alive" to  mean  the
   complete  expulsion or extraction from the mother of an infant, at any
   stage of development, who after that expulsion or extraction  breathes
   or  has  a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite
   movement of voluntary muscles, regardless  of  whether  the  umbilical
   cord  has  been  cut  and  regardless  of  whether  the  expulsion  or
   extraction  occurs  as  a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean
   section, or induced abortion.  Effective immediately.

On Obama’s own site there is a chart from planned parenthood defending what bills “threatened” Roe V Wade. They saw defining a baby as alive once born as a THREAT! A THREAT! Here planned parenthood has shoved down the throat of my generation the lie that an inutero baby is not alive and therefore has no rights. Now they even say that of the born alive baby??? This is absolutely counter-intuitive.  

Go here to view Obama’s “no” vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 6, 2002.  Bill 1663 Was a direct copy of bill 1662 and considered a “companion bill.

Transcript of Obama’s verbal opposition to Born Alive on the IL Senate floor, April 4, 2002, pages 28-35

Obama’s “no” vote on the IL Senate floor, April 4, 2002

**Major hat-tip to Jill Stanek for finding these links.  You can check out her full post here.

8/26/2008

I don’t have much to write about lately.  It’s not that things aren’t happening… there just is a lack of wannabe deep thoughts wandering around my cranium.  Instead I have had lots of headaches.  I’m trying to get back in the groove of designing blogs and wanting to re-design Does Mommy Love It.  BUT the redesign I want to do is more involved than I’m used to.  Do I really have time to do that with my arms full of children right now?  Probably not.  Not if I want the house cleaned, laundry done, groceries bought…etc.  SO.

Today was “snoopy day” at Owen’s new preschool.  I met his teachers and really like them.  The school looked great and mom’s seemed nice enough.  I think this was the first time I heard a school tell children they were forbidden to wear cowboy boots… they just don’t have to tell you that anywhere else that I have lived.  Owen is fascinated with the fact that he is in “Pre-K Kindergarten”.  He thinks anything containing the word Kindergarten must be cool.  Thursday he’ll go a half day, which is as long as preschool is in Ohio.  I still can’t believe they normally go from 9a-2p here.

Owen’s soccer games start the 6th and practices have been entertaining to say the least.  So cute.  Poor Lukas is watching Owen start all these fun things and seems to feel deprived.  I guess its hard to be the little brother.  

Avery is sleeping through the night most nights.  But last night was a tough one.  She had her shots yesterday so she slept all day- which killed the night.  I still have a headache thinking about it.

I’m so glad it is back to school time and that life is now going to be back on a schedule.  It feels like we can actually start a rhythm here now.  

I’ll charge my battery and take more pictures soon.  Avery is getting so big.  9 weeks.  Time flies.

Zaida Baby Give-Away on DoesMommyLoveIt.com

We’re having another giveaway on Does Mommy Love It?  It’s a beautiful designer baby book, great as a gift or for yourself!  This book retails for $59.95!  All you have to do is leave a comment to enter… and it would be extra nice if you left a link on your own blog to the contest.  Go enter now! 

I Just Had a Baby. That’s why.

Amazing how God uses such things to humble us.  Today I actually decided instead of going to bed after Avery’s morning feeding I would go to the gym at 6am.  Good for me right? I get there and first hit the eliptical for a 10 minute warm up.  My theighs were burning after one minute. ONE MINUTE! I pushed through the whole 10 (i know good for me,) and then proceeded to stretch.  Have I mentioned I’m not NEAR as flexible as I used to be?  Okay let me back up before I get to lifting weights.

You have to understand that most of the time since I was 18 I have weight trained…. not to be big and steroid-man-like, but to be toned.  Sure, a year here and there I have taken off.  But for the most part I worked out.  I love lifting.

Flash forward to the present.  I’m 32 (which by the way I thought I was 33 till my husband corrected me the other day,) I just had my third baby.  I’m terribly out of shape.  I go to lift on new machines I have never used, and I’m out of “good form”.  The fact is, I needed help.  I ended up asking some older, much older, man how to adjust one of the machines from leg extension to leg curl.  Later he came by and told me I needed to come up higher on my ab curls.  He was really hesitant to offer his advice and I understand why.

In the gym, people (including me) like to feel like know it alls… It’s hard to be corrected.  It’s hard to ask for help.  But today I just laughed at myself because I knew I needed it, and yes it was humbling, but I asked for help a couple times anyway.  Still all during that I wanted a shirt with big, fat letters on it shouting “I JUST HAD A BABY, THAT’S WHY!”

Three times in the past couple weeks people have mistaken me as a pregnant woman.  One simply said, “wait I thought you already had the baby?” another, “when is your baby due?” and still another, “Have you signed up for our baby registry yet?”

I find myself unwilling to let my husband take the baby in a mall.  Why? Because if I have a baby people don’t think I’m pregnant.  So where is that shirt?  I need that shirt.

But the fact of the matter is, who cares about the shirt?  It’s good to be humbled. Why do we as humans always have to defend ourselves, explain ourselves, make excuses?  Why can’t we (or maybe it’s just ME?) let people think what they think and not care.  That was the freeing part of the gym today.  I was able to let go and just let people think what they wanted to think. And truthfully,  I really doubt they spent any significant minute of their day thinking of me anyway

So on a totally random unrelated note…  If you type this into google- “Obama late term abortion” A post I wrote on January 30th of this year comes up… I’m right between MSNBC and Reuters.  Now THAT is funny.  As if this silly little mommy-blog is news material. How do I know this?  I noticed that page was getting a ton of hits.  It seems with all the recent info. on Obama and how he thinks it is fine to kill babies once they are born from a botched late term abortion (and how he now denies that,) people have been googling that and finding my page.  They may be a little disappointed to find it is just some girl blowing off steam.

I’m off to enjoy the weekend and hopefully get part of my house painted.  Have a good one.

Seabird Pushing Daisies

Just have to brag on one of my husbands bands because:

1. I absolutely love their music, and

2. Well, they are one of my husbands clients…

One of their songs is being used with the Pushing Daisies Promo.  Good job Seabird!  And good job Jeff for pitching it!

Please go to the links and make me happy :)  Then buy a CD or download it on itunes or discrevolt and make me even happier

See the promo here.

Stranger Friends

I have been amazed since I move here at the kindness of strangers in this neighborhood.  1st there is my neighbor Pam.  She has befriended me and taken me into her circle of friends so quickly.  She constantly invites me to things with her and her buddies from this subdivision.  To top that off she had meals planned for me (even after I said no!) from women that have never even met me until they drop the meal off at the door.  So I find myself blown away by the people willing to bake my family a meal even though we have never met.

Everywhere I go, the pool, the park, my front porch… people introduce themselves.  Conversation comes easily around here.  I love it.  A smile, a wave… as anyone passes in a car or golf cart.  It’s almost surreal, pleasetville like, utopia.

So I start thinking.  This is what the church is suppose to be like to the world.  I feel blessed that several times in my life I have been in churches that resemble this.  But I have also been in churches… or christian arenas… that don’t, some contrast it.  Totally unfortunate.

That brings me to mention that I believe we found a church.  We visited a few really good ones.  One in particular that really is community and rich in truth, but there still isn’t a resounding YES THIS IS IT for some reason.  Despite the fact that great friends go there and so much is familiar about it.  This weekend however, we went to one that did seem to shout YES!  We aren’t 100%, mostly because my husband just doesn’t decide quickly on anything (which is not only wise most of the time, but totally opposite of me.) They have a women’s bible study that meets in our neighborhood’s clubhouse. This is awesome because they have childcare at the clubhouse. I’m going tomorrow.  (see I make decisions fast).  Am I nervous?  Not really because everyone in this neighborhood is so nice!

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