October 6, 2006
We Survived Roe Vs. Wade
If you are Pro-Life, if you gave birth to a child, or adopted a child and are proud to say NO TO ABORTION, leave me a comment.
If you had an abortion and regret your decision and want to tell others to say NO to abortion, leave me a comment.
The Goal is 5,000 women and men who are PRO-Life (read: not pro-choice, LIFE is the only choice).
Also, don’t forget to visit my pro-life friends here and here.
Let’s show MS. Magazine that we are proud to be Pro-Life and we want abortion to end.
Your comment should include your name, city, state and any message you wish to post showing your support for Life.
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October 6th, 2006 at 1:11 PM, Dana Says:
Dana Tuszke, Plover, Wisconsin, USA —
Life is the only choice. Stop Abortion now. Let our children be born. They deserve the right to life.
October 6th, 2006 at 1:20 PM, Dave Kellow Says:
Dave Kellow, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
“It is a poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa
October 6th, 2006 at 1:28 PM, John Jansen Says:
John Jansen, Chicago, IL -
“I have no choice.”
Any pro-lifer who has ever done sidewalk counseling has heard women make remarks to this effect before entering the abortion clinic.
Hence, the cruel irony of the term “pro-choice”: No woman wants to have an abortion.
“I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
October 6th, 2006 at 10:21 PM, Guinevere Says:
Pro-Life all the way!
October 7th, 2006 at 6:41 AM, Christine M. Says:
Proudly pro-life!!!
October 7th, 2006 at 9:59 AM, Roseanna Kocan Says:
Rosie Kocan, warrenville,Il. USA
“How can there be too many children, that’s like saying there are too many flowers”-Mother Teresa
October 7th, 2006 at 11:43 AM, Jennifer Says: Says:
If you feel you can’t raise your child, why not let someone else who is less fortunate and unable to conceive a child, enjoy their presence and provide a beautiful home for them?
A woman does not walk into an abortion clinic and say ” I can not have this fetus.” She says
” I can not have this baby”
October 7th, 2006 at 4:27 PM, Lena Says:
Wauconda, Illinois
I love the moms who go into the clinics for an abortion. My heart breaks for them as they make the biggest (usually coerced) decision of their lives. Unfortunately they are caught in the middle of a cultural battle that rages on.
Joe Schidler and Planned Parenthood are like Rev Abram Pryne (abolitionist) and Rev William Brownslow (anti-abolitionist) in their famous debate about slavery. As they posed the question back then, “Ought American slavery to be abolished or ought American slavery to be perpetuated?”
So I ask, “Ought Roe v Wade to be abolished or ought Roe v Wade to be perpetuated?”
Just like one could have asked Rev Pryne about slavery one could ask Joe Schidler about abortion, “What do you have to gain by abolishing abortion?”
And just like one could have asked Rev Brlownslow (slave owner) about slavery one could ask of Planned Parenthood (largest abortion provider in the land) about abortion, “What do you have to gain by keeping abortion legal?”
Just as Brownslow was in his day, NOW and Planned Parenthood are the anti-abolitionists of today.
The anti-abolitionists of today learned from their predecessors and will not risk an amendment to the Constitution by letting abortion come to a vote.
October 7th, 2006 at 9:17 PM, Dave Pawlak Says:
My wife is doing something similar. Check it out at http://moderncommentaries.com .
October 7th, 2006 at 10:20 PM, Timothy Jay Caruthers Says:
Proud member of the “I Survived the 45,000,000 Fetal Holocaust”
I’m sure this will never see the light of day in Ms. Magazine, sadly.
October 7th, 2006 at 11:20 PM, Rebecca Says:
Nice site!
My homepage | Please visit
October 8th, 2006 at 12:44 AM, QofS Says:
My name is Erin and I have had an abortion.
I did it willingly.
I was educated.
I knew exactly what I was doing.
I have no regrets.
It’s not your choice. It’s mine. Mine alone.
I applaud Ms. Magazine for allowing those of us who have had abortions to step out of the shadows. We’re not evil baby killers.
We are women who control their own reproduction. Control women’s reproduction, control women. It’s that simple.
I don’t wish to debate when life begins. I don’t wish to debate the prolife vs. prochoice movements. We will never agree.
All I can offer is that we are not monsters.
We are women. We are mothers. We are sisters. We are daughters.
And we have had abortions.
October 8th, 2006 at 11:43 AM, Mary Says:
In addition to adding my name to the petition, I have to address something that Erin says.
“We are women who control their own reproduction.”
Of course women should “control their own reproduction.”
Erin and I obviously define “control” differently.
I find it difficult to consider aborting a baby developing in the womb, a human life with a beating heart, an appropriate means of “controlling” reproduction.
I don’t consider terminating new life to be empowering.
I know a woman who had a miscarriage early in pregnancy and she still mourns the loss of that child many years later.
The baby she lost in the first trimester is as real to her as the children she gave birth to.
All life is precious.
What could be more basic and empowering for women than believing in the right of unborn women to live?
Mary, Wisconsin
October 8th, 2006 at 2:18 PM, Jen Says:
Kudos to you Erin. The Anti-Choice crowd is more concerned with forcing their own mythology on others than they are with women’s mental/physical health. Good luck getting to 5000 you women haters.
October 8th, 2006 at 4:07 PM, Dave Pawlak Says:
Jen says
Good luck getting to 5000 you women haters.
So all those women who regret having abortions and all women who oppose women are somehow “women haters”?
So all the husbands and boyfriends and parents who coerce women into having abortions are somehow less women-hating than a woman who thinks abortion is murder?
October 8th, 2006 at 4:25 PM, Amy P. Says:
The Anti-Choice crowd is more concerned with forcing their own mythology on others than they are with women’s mental/physical health.
Except when it comes to the “pro-choice” crowd who tosses aside the real emotional, phsyical, and mental damage abortion does. (THAT is mythology, isn’t it?)
And who – as Ms. did, and as you’re doing now – have no respect for those of us who think murder is not a form of birth control and toss and counter arguments aside.
45 million children have been killed. 45 million children who could have been doctors, nurses, scientists, successful, happy people.
We’re not demanding women keep and raise children. Just that they give their children a chance at life.
October 9th, 2006 at 7:21 AM, sj Says:
sunni m., indianapolis, in
proud to be pro-life.
October 9th, 2006 at 10:22 AM, Jacqueline Says:
Jacqueline, Dallas, TX
26 years old and legally disposable for the first nine months of my life. My mother, however, doesn’t beleive in killing her babies, hence I can sign your petition. You can thank my mom.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:40 PM, Dana Says:
Erin, I don’t hate you. In fact, I adore you very much. Your smart, intelligent, you have a great sense of humor. You write beautifully. I could never hate you or any other woman on this earth. I’m more sad. Sad that you decided against giving birth to your first child. I knew that this petition would be upsetting to many women, but I can’t not stand up for a baby’s right to life. What was so different about the child you chose not to have from the Count and the Princess? In all honesty, why did that child not deserve the right to life, but your other two children did?
You don’t have to agree with me. You don’t have to defend your actions. There is no excuse in this world that will make me believe you made the right choice. And afterall, I’m not the one you have to answer to. I know you’ve said you don’t believe in God, but I don’t believe that. I think you do and by saying you don’t it makes your abortion “justified”.
I know that my belief is offensive to you and others and I have to accept that. It’s not my intention to be some radical religious woman, but when it comes to life, what other action is there, but radical? It’s really an irony, that we women who are pro-life have to fight tooth and nail to be heard. And when people don’t agree with us, suddenly, we’re women haters (thank you Jen for saying that, but if we’re going to mince words, you would then be a baby hater, right?)???
October 9th, 2006 at 6:32 PM, mary kay hastings Says:
“The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. I come that they might have life, and have it abundantly”
John 10:10
How easily we are drawn into our own illusions. How easily we believe the lie that we have control over anything. How easily we fall for the same line that our parents (adam and eve) fell for. And how sad that the the innocent must pay for our incredible gullibility.
Have mercy on us, and on the whole world.
October 9th, 2006 at 9:21 PM, sunnyday Says:
I’m Diana from the Philippines where abortion continues to be a crime. Even though some sectors buy the illusion that deliberately killing a little person is a “right,” majority of us affirm that life is to be protected and cherished!
I’m pro-life all the way because I care for and respect women — their physical well-being as well as their emotional and psychological health. Unborn people are people just the same so they deserve to be respected and cared for as well.
Dana, this is a wonderful initiative!
October 10th, 2006 at 9:30 AM, dawn Says:
Abortion is the mst unnecessary action a woman could take. There are so many open arms out there who will take in a newborn child and raise that person as their own. I know a couple right now who are so torn that they cannot have their own child so they have started a fund to be able to adopt one of their own. Why oh WHY won’t women just allow their child to be born?!?!! Someone will be there to take that little baby away to good place. Don’t kill them, don’t end their little life. They are small, unable to talk yet and defenseless…give them a life, not death.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:11 AM, Generations for Life » Blog Archive » Pro-Lifers Respond Says:
[...] Amy Pawlak at Modern Commentaries has one here, and Dana at The Dana Files has one here. (If you know of any other related action items, let us know by posting a comment below.) [...]
October 10th, 2006 at 1:23 PM, THE DANA FILES » Blog Archive » Silent No More Says:
[...] My controversial abortion post has given me some amazing comments and some sad comments. You’ll need to read them here and here if you wish to know what this is about. [...]
October 13th, 2006 at 2:49 PM, Emmy Says:
It is sad that modern society denies the humanity of the child in the womb, and allows a mother the “choice” to kill her child. I am proud to be one of the many people who are pro-life.
October 13th, 2006 at 2:56 PM, Emmy Lou Says:
In the Philippines, the term for pregnant is “nagdadalantao”. Literally, it means “carrying a human”. It is a heavy word, hinting at the responsibility that motherhood entails. It is also a beautiful word because it celebrates a woman’s strenth. I pray that our world begins to look at pregnancy this way.
Thank you for this entry, and for giving us who respect life a place to be heard.
October 14th, 2006 at 1:25 PM, Duane Williams Says:
Jeremiah 1:5 (King James Version)
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
The unborn have a relationship with God, and that is enough to protect their precious lives. Pro-Life 4-Life.
October 14th, 2006 at 7:30 PM, Melissa Says:
I am a post-abortive, pro-life mom. I have a beautiful daughter born 3 years prior to my unwanted/coerced abortion and a beautiful son born 4 years since my unwanted/coerced abortion. I am actively pursuing a career in helping post-abortive women.
Psalm 139:13-18
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
October 19th, 2006 at 8:23 PM, Holly G. Says:
Obviously, it is with deep shame and everlasting grief for the abortion I had 31 years ago when I was barely 17, that I use only an initial on my last name. I was smart, already in college, and didn’t learn to regret it for almost 15 more years. The front desk at the planned parenthood, took my false name, my false age (you had to be 18 at that time) with no i.d., led me back to “counseling”, which was counseling to get the abortion, not the other way around. The reason I didn’t feel much regret, is I thought I was escaping the all the trauma I thought I would endure from be found out. The nurse scribble on a blackboard and looked at all of us straight in our eyes, and told us not to let anyone fool us, or lie to us, that our pregnancy was NOT a baby, but a mass of cells, no brain, no thoughts, nothing… I was only late a couple of weeks, so at that time a blood test was required to see if you were pregnant. They told me that I didn’t have an abortion, but a “Menstrual Extraction”. That my lining was removed before the egg had a chance to implant. I felt pretty relieved. But the devil is a consumate liar. And also an angel of light fooling many. My next pregnancy was wanted. I lost the baby at 4 months. My next baby survived and is 25 today. Ten years more with no babies, my sister lost hers at 6 months, and the Lord gave me a dream. He showed me my aborted baby, my miscarried baby, and my miscarried niece. I did not know it was a girl, but the Lord revealed that to me. This is where my regret felt unlimited bounds. My two beautiful blonde girls, that I saw once in a dream. One, I murdered, the other I lost I believe due to my physical health from the prior abortion. I know the Lord has forgiven me, but trust me, it is much harder to forgive yourself. The only “haters” out there are 1) The devil – who hates us because we are made in the image of God 2) The people being led by the same, knowingly or unknowingly, but most knowing they are murdering these babies. Some think they are doing a service since a majority are minorities. This is real hatred. But still, nothing like the way you will feel when you recognize the enormity of your decision, and you realize that worse than all the criminals in the world, you took your own innocent, helpless babies life. The child who would have adored you, looked up to you, given you kisses from his or her chubby lips. It is the greatest tragedy of my life. Fortunately the Lord has restored me, and although the doctors told me I would not have anymore children, the Lord blessed me with seven more. May God bless the one that is considering this path from which you cannot return.
October 20th, 2006 at 8:28 AM, Dana Says:
Dearest Holly,
Thank you so very much for sharing your experience with us. It means the world to me and to others that you had the courage to tell us about your situation and to show us your remorse. I know in my heart that you have been forgiven by God. I’m so happy to hear that you have seven beautiful children that you love and cherish with your heart and soul.
God Bless You,
Dana
October 24th, 2006 at 12:32 PM, Debby Says:
I am the oldest daughter of seven and have three children of my own. My parents brought all of us up to believe in the sanctity and specialness of life and I thank them for it. I am passing on that same legacy to my kids. I am proud when I hear about how my kids stood up and defended the life of the weakest among us to their teachers and peers.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Nolta Says:
Thomas Nolta, Washington DC
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” – Mother Teresa
No one can deny honestly and intellecually that the fetus is a human life that deserves protection. At the moment when two cells come together, that “clump of cells” cannot become a dog, or anything else… they can only form a human CHILD. We are inherently ALIVE and inherently HUMAN from CONCEPTION – thus “endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.”
October 24th, 2006 at 6:11 PM, Cathy Larsen Says:
It is never incovenient to participate in creation. What is inconvenient is the shedding of selfishness required to become a loving, devoted parent.
September 7th, 2007 at 12:08 AM, Jon Says:
I’m 22 years old. One third of my generation was killed before they saw the light of day. Choose life.
September 11th, 2007 at 10:27 AM, Dennis Says:
Thirty-six years and still alive! Thanks Mom!
November 4th, 2007 at 4:05 AM, Ceecee Says:
REVERSE ROE V. WADE! ! !
The cheapening of life in the womb and the idea that it’s OK to kill life in the womb has led to a cheapening of all human life. The results have been heartbreaking, and have led to the deaths of inconvenient people both in and out of the womb. This must stop and be reversed. If Roe v. Wade led to this, then maybe the first step to reversing it is to reverse Roe v. Wade.