Posted on 11/05/2009 3:55:57 PM PST by wagglebee
http://www.forerunner.com/champion/X0002_Abortion_Sacrament.html
The lights were low, and Native American flute music played softly. A counselor held the woman's hand, whispering words of comfort as she began to surface from a guided meditation. Then the doctor showed the woman a covered silver bowl that held the tiny remains of her six-week pregnancy. She curled her fingers around his, and her face, now damp with tears, softened as he began their ceremony of letting go.
“We ask your blessing, in the name of love,” Curtis Boyd, M D, began softly. Before becoming a doctor, Boyd was a foot-washing Baptist minister in rural East Texas. He left the fold but took with him an abiding faith in the power of ceremony to heal, honor, and comfort.
“Women because of what they are bombarded with in the media and by anti-abortion groups get the message that what they are doing is wrong and that they are bad people,” Boyd says, “A ceremony says the woman is a good and caring person who made the best decision she could under difficult circumstances. It also gives her a way to honor the fetus to be aware of her grief and to express her loss.”
In the nearly eight years I worked as a counselor and medical assistant at Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I witnessed many ceremonies. Some were for couples whose fetuses had died or had medical anomalies. Others were for women who, for whatever reason, knew that it was not the nighttime to bring a child into their world and sought a way to make peace with that decision.
Each blessing ritual was individually designed. One Buddhist couple set up an altar, complete with incense, candles, and rice cakes. Native American women sometimes brought corn meal for sprinkling during their blessings. Boyd has since retired from performing surgery, but he and his wife and partner, psychologist Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, still guide the work done at her Albuquerque and Dallas clinics. All patients have an opportunity to perform their own rituals or to create new ceremonies with the help of counselors.
This particular afternoon, in the soft light of the surgery room, Boyd concluded the ceremony with a prayer: “We ask that you honor this woman's courage and bless her and her family as they move forward in their lives.”
PATRICIA O'CONNOR
New Age, March/April, 1998, p. 17
I also found this article in which Boyd admits to doing thousands of illegal abortions in the 60's with a network of ministers supplying referrals.
What other kind of doctor in this country can openly admit to doing illegal procedures without loosing his license?
This is one sick evil man.
This is so disturing on so many different levels.
“Every single one of us deserves hell. Good people don’t go to heaven because there aren’t any.” Are the alive unborn people in your estimation?
This is an announcement of your pending suicide, I presume?
Give the absurd rhetoric a rest. The Liberals have it well covered.
Whether or not a person (innocent child!) would be better off alive or dead is CERTAINLY beyond your capability to judge. Leave such issues to God.
Oh, very good question MHG.
I believe that we are innocent of sin until we reach the age of reason. And I believe that age varies from child to child.
And I firmly believe that the unborn babies murdered by abortion are safe in heaven with our Father God, as are all children who died before they could be held accountable.
“This is an announcement of your pending suicide, I presume?”
No but I wouldn’t mind dying for a cause.
“Whether or not a person (innocent child!) would be better off alive or dead is CERTAINLY beyond your capability to judge. Leave such issues to God.”
That may be true but it seems doubtful. It really really doesn’t look like there is a divine plan. Still, I’m hoping to be wrong.
Rest assured, God does have a plan. Part of that plan is that all men have their freedom to choose, with related consequences.
It's important not to confuse the consequences of man's choices with what is God's will. They are frequently in conflict, but God is not a micro-managing dictator.
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