Monday, March 30, 2009

Monday Mourning

Matt is trying to work up the moral fiber to go to the store, even at this late hour, and I'm turning my back on a shattered and filthy kitchen, and there are four children shouting with all their might for some reason unknown to me.

I know Stand Firm and MCJ are more than brilliantly dealing with this disaster, but I wanted to add two cents anyway. I recently had the opportunity to plead with someone, over the phone, who was contemplating an abortion. I have no idea if she carried through, probably she did. I had found out only one or two days earlier that I was pregnant and I was physically and emotionally wrecked after pleading and begging with this poor young woman, able to see in my mind's eye exactly the horrendous and painfilled course she had charted out for herself, the whimsy and triteness with which she spoke of her plans. It was days before I was able to let go of it. I've still been praying for her every minute that I think of it.

The fact is, poor Ms. Ragsdale, with her, "when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship; has every option open to her, decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to safe, affordable abortion-there is not a tragedy in sight-only blessing...abortion is a blessing and our work is not done..." is in such a horribly precarious position. With the power structures momentarily and temporally on her side, as she flings herself farther and farther down a path of hellish destruction, carrying the most vulnerable and spiritually needy with her, she is laying up for herself millstone of unimaginable proportion. Honestly, if anyone needs desperate prayer, it is Ms. Ragsdale.

4 comments:

Sarah Boyle Webber said...

I knew abortion was wrong before I had children. But now that I've been a mother more than 6 years, this kind of filth makes me want to vomit. Literally. God have mercy on all of us.

Muerk said...

What Elizabeth Kaeton writes make my skin crawl. She rails at the verbal violence of headline rhetoric, yet is happy to accept the actual physical violence done to the unborn. It's a very creepy attitude.

Ragsdale's position is evil, and rather than the pro-life rhetoric dehumanising her, it is her very own position that achieves this.

By taking such an extreme pro-abortion position she removes herself from the loss and grief that abortion causes. She blesses death. How can that be a humanising position?

Anonymous said...

Anne - just gotta say I really admire the work you're doing. I am a regular reader of SF, and saw what The Swan of Newark wrote about you and yours last night. The know-it-all attitude that pours forth is really a sight to behold! Keep on keepin' on, Sister, and congratulations to you and Matt on your little unborn blessing. Greg

Dr. Alice said...

Finally went to EK's site for the first time in a while (and realized anew why I don't go there). What a horrible, condescending, vicious woman.

Did I mention that your sermons are roughly twenty times better than hers? Well, they are. I'm sure she knows it too and I bet that really fries her hide.