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Olympic Champion Claressa Shields Saves Cousin’s Baby From Abortion: “I’ll Adopt Her”
lifenews.com ^
| 8/24/16
| Katie Yoder
Posted on 08/27/2016 8:27:37 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Claressa Shields made history in Rio as the first U.S. boxer to win back-to-back gold medals. But while the major media outlets praised her historic win, they forgot about her most important personal win.
On Monday, the 21-year-old credited God for her success on Good Morning America after ABC anchor Amy Robach referenced her difficult childhood.
How Shields past was difficult, Robach didnt say. But its a story well worth telling.
Shields grew up in Flint, Michigan with a father in jail and a mother with drug problems and male acquaintances who, Shields said, raped and sexually molested her. Her family relied on food stamps that, she believes, her mother sold for drugs because food rarely appeared on the table. And when her cousin begged her for abortion money, Shields decided to adopt a baby of her own as a teenager.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; infanticide; life; sports
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Not going to be praised by Al Sharpton or Cecile Richards or Valerie Jarrett or the occupant of the Oval Office or Hitlery or any of the leftists who worship with the sacrament of abortion...this young black female champion cares more about children in her little toe than all of the aforementioned combined.
To: SoFloFreeper
To: SoFloFreeper
She is a classy lady...
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:31:21 AM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: SoFloFreeper
“...but the boxer still remains.” (Paul Simon)
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:31:43 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SoFloFreeper
(with gender changed in the story)
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by her trade
And she carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid her down
Or cut her till she cried out
In her anger and her shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving” —
But the boxer still remains....
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:35:10 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Actually, it’s “... the fighter still remains ...”.
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:42:23 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:43:57 AM PDT
by
mancini
To: DuncanWaring
Simon probably said it better that way with the generalization to “fighter.”
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:50:22 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Very sad that it ended up with her having to give the child back. I pray the birth mother’s love for Klaressa is genuine.
May God bless and keep watch over them all.
Tatt
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:52:22 AM PDT
by
thesearethetimes...
(Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Though it was a boxer in the clearing.
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:53:17 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Wow, a baby $100 away from not existing!
Good for her.
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:53:50 AM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: DuncanWaring
Anyhow, the fighter who fights persistently for the right thing is the fighter blessed by the Lord.
Many heroes and heroines did not have auspicious beginnings. But what would be insignificant to mankind meant much to the Lord.
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:55:41 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GnuThere
My hunch: $100 and a heart that God was turning into gold.
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posted on
08/27/2016 8:56:30 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:17:51 AM PDT
by
healy61
To: HiTech RedNeck
Back to the topic and away from musical minutiae.
Great story.
God works in wondrous ways.
The radical MSM pro abortion hosts hate it when an interview goes this way.
They often cut the interview short.
Prayers for all.
TWB.
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:18:24 AM PDT
by
TWhiteBear
(Covert member of the Alt Right, and we are everywhere)
To: SoFloFreeper
An inspiring and heroic young woman.
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:23:22 AM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: SoFloFreeper
I’m in Flint today at guitar center.
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:24:38 AM PDT
by
Eddie01
(Democrats are the Liquidate America Party)
To: SoFloFreeper
This is heartwarming and inspiring. God bless you Claressa Shields.
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:30:59 AM PDT
by
married21
( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Women’s boxing in olympics?
God love her but what a strange Olympian sport
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:38:12 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(free republic is an aging demographic)
To: Eddie01
I drove thru last week to Saginaw then 10 to 115 to Caddy and TC
It was a beautiful morning actually
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posted on
08/27/2016 9:40:45 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(free republic is an aging demographic)
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