"Eshet Chayil": Woman of Valor
Maybe it's because the onset of pregnancy can get a woman hormonally off-kilter and a physical and emotional queasiness kicks in. (The vomiting doesn't help.) Then the first people she tells about it (her parents, her husband, her boyfriend) say "Oh, no" rather than "Oh great." Then she feels she's just burdening everybody, and she ought to spare everybody the hassle by getting an abortion a.s.a.p. ("Nip it in the bid.")
I put this in News/Activism because it's not about religious doctrine per se, but about one of the many outreach groups which provide better choices for women who are facing untimely or difficult pregnancies.
EFRAT an Israeli organization intending to save Jewish babies from abortion. They also have a U.S. affiliate, Efrat-CRIB (Committee for the Rescue of Israel's Babies).
Here's the thing. Some people scoff that a basket of goodies or a little financial help is not enough to cover a lifetime of needs for an unexpected baby. But the key is not the "stuff". The key is showing a troubled woman that somebody cares, someone thinks she is capable of choosing life, and will help her choose by clarifying her resources, lining up support available to her, and highlighting options that both she and the baby can live with.
Just a reminder that it's not all power and politics. Sometimes the essential ingredient is love.
I just discuss birth control before the moment reaches that point. Then again, I am a guy, not a slutty leftist gal who apparently just has one nighters constantly without a thought to protection.
"Eshet Chayil": Woman of Valor
Liberals who defend late term abortion, euthanasia and legal suicide prove that their supposed moral leg up on empathy is a sham.
Women demanding the right to kill the kids they find inconvenient, and that the rest of us pay for it, no less, are not morally superior.
Thanks for posting this really great article that deserves wider attention.
Morgana, do you have a prolife pinglist, or know of someone who does?