RCRC - Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

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WILEY DRAKE ON THE MURDER OF GEORGE TILLER [PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE]

  

Wiley Drake

INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.salon.com/2009/06/02/drake_tiller/

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2009 04:01 AM +0800

Keyes’ running mate: Tiller murder “answer to prayer”

"I am glad George Tiller is dead," Wiley Drake says

Alex Koppelman

Given Alan Keyes’ descent into Birtherdom and his recent anti-abortion protest at Notre Dame, which featured dolls covered in fake blood, it should be no surprise that the man hangs out with something of an eccentric crowd. Turns out it’s sort of violent, too.

Last year, when Keyes ran for president (yes, he ran, sorry if you didn’t notice), he had Wiley Drake as his running mate. Tuesday, Right Wing Watch noted that Drake, who’s also served as the second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been celebrating the murder of abortion provider George Tiller. “There may be a lot who would say, ‘Oh that is mean. You shouldn’t be that way,'” Drake said on his radio show. “Well, no, it’s an answer to prayer.” He went on to explain:

Would you have rejoiced when Adolf Hitler died during the war? … I would have said, “Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah, I’m glad he’s dead.”

This man, George Tiller, was far greater in his atrocities than Adolf Hitler. So I am happy. I am glad that he is dead. Now I am sad that he went to hell, because he had a choice just like everybody else did. He could have chosen Jesus Christ and when he died went to heaven. But he chose the devil. He chose to neglect, he chose to reject Jesus Christ. And therefore on Sunday morning when he breathed his last breath there in the Lutheran church, he breathed his last breath, and he slipped into the presence of the devil. And I have a strange hunch and a strange feeling that there is a special, superheated, super-hot place in hell for people like George Tiller.

WHY DO THESE WOMEN SUFFER AFTER THEIR ABORTIONS [ARTICLE ON PRO LIFE]

 

INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/04/if-abortion-is-so-great-for-women-why-are-these-women-suffering-after-their-abortions/

If Abortion is So Great for Women, Why are These Women Suffering After Their Abortions?

National   Micaiah Bilger   Jan 4, 2016   |   11:21AM    Washington, DC

Abortion advocates have been on a crusade lately to make abortion appear to be a routine medical procedure with no ill effects. They blame any negative feelings about abortion on social stigma and judgement.

But “A.A.”, a 59-year-old post-abortive woman, says that is simply not true.

A.A. told the Catholic News Agency that she spent the days after her abortion not wanting to leave her bed and the nights in tears. She said it wasn’t social stigma or judgement that caused pain after her abortion — her suffering was based on her own actions.

“I suffered from the need to see and caress my child. No one ever judged me. I’m the one who judged myself, feeling I was the worst of mothers,” she said.

A.A. said the root of her suffering was because she knew “I had been capable of killing my child who couldn’t even defend himself. My other children were able to play, cry and laugh, but their brother could not. That was the source of my pain.”

Peruvian psychologist Luz Marina Araoz Chavez works with post-abortive women through the program Project Hope. The psychologist is fighting a recent statement by the Chilean Psychological Association claiming that post-abortion syndrome does not exist, according to the report. The group’s committee on gender and sexual diversity claimed that “criminalization” of abortion is what causes women to suffer.

Chavez responded that the suffering many post-abortive women experience is evidence of post-abortion syndrome. Women endure “difficulty in healing the wound caused by the loss of the baby.” These women also struggle to be “at peace with God, oneself or others that were involved in her decision to abort,” she said.

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Karen Cross is another woman who openly shares how her abortion ended her unborn baby’s life and then nearly destroyed hers, too.

Cross wrote at LifeNews:

Nine years after my first abortion, just three years after the second, I began to have nightmares. I realized my abortions had nearly destroyed my life. I learned that my problems with guilt, low self-esteem, suicidal tendencies, nightmares, and alcohol are actually not uncommon with women who have had abortions.

Initially I was bitter toward my mother who took me to the first abortion. I wanted–or should I say needed–to blame her. For years I didn’t realize her pain. Sometimes she cried for me and the pain I endured, and sometimes for the grandchildren she’ll never hold.

Later I accepted responsibility for what happened and we forgave each other.

Even after all these years, it’s still not over. As I held my new grandson, I realized I didn’t abort two children, I aborted generations of children.

I share the stories of my mother and my children to help you understand that once I had the abortions, they became a permanent part of my life, my history.

Cross said her abortion experiences prompted her to become pro-life and to reach out to women who are experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Today, she helps women and babies all across the U.S. through her role as the political director for the National Right to Life Committee.

Numerous studies also confirm that women often suffer from depression and other mental health issues after an abortion.

A 2008 study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found induced abortions result in increased risks for myriad mental health problems ranging from anxiety to depression to substance abuse disorders.

The number of cases of mental health issues rose by as much as 17 percent in women having abortions compared to those who didn’t have one and the risks of each particular mental health problem rose as much as 145% for post-abortive women.

A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found a similar link between abortion and mental health problems. The study found that women who had abortions had rates of mental health problems about 30% higher than other women. The conditions most associated with abortion included anxiety disorders and substance abuse disorders.

Because of Chavez and programs like Project Hope and Rachel’s Vineyard, post-abortive women like A.A. and Cross have found healing after their abortions.

A.A. told the news agency: “I spoke with a priest when I hit rock bottom because of the pain and regret. He counseled me to make reparation and said that the death of my child had a meaning for the other children in danger of being aborted.”

MARTIN O’MALLEY: KILL BABIES NOT MURDERERS

INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/martin-omalley-kill-babies-not-murderers

Martin O'Malley: Kill Babies Not Murderers

By Melanie Hunter | September 28, 2015 | 1:05 PM EDT

(CNSNews.com) – Democratic presidential candidate former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that one of the reasons the death penalty should be abolished is because it goes against one of the basic principles the republic was founded on – “a belief in the dignity of every person’s life” - but that dignity does not extend to unborn babies, according to O’Malley, who is “pro-choice.”

“The death penalty is not a deterrent. It does not work. It is expensive. It is flawed, and it cuts against some of the basic principles upon which our republic is founded, namely a belief in the dignity of every person’s life,” said O’Malley.

O’Malley ended the death penalty in Maryland two years ago.

“When Pope Francis spoke to Congress, he called for the global abolition of the death penalty. As someone who ended the death penalty in Maryland, who led that charge, how do you explain it to the survivors of heinous crimes who want justice, who want the murderers put to death by the state?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked.

“Yeah, very, very tough,” said O’Malley. “Before I left office, I met with the survivors of our death row inmates before commuting their sentences, and so this is the best I can do in terms of explaining it – not only to survivors, but to all of us.

“And it is that the death penalty is not a deterrent. It does not work. It is expensive. It is flawed, and it cuts against some of the basic principles upon which our republic is founded, namely a belief in the dignity of every person’s life, and so that’s why I’m opposed to the death penalty, and I applaud the pope for his courageous call to Congress,” he added.

“I think we need to do the things that work and stop doing the things that don’t,” O’Malley said.

  

When asked how O’Malley feels about abortion personally as a Catholic, the former governor said he is “pro-choice.”

“As a Catholic Democrat, you just talked about life and every life mattering. How do you personally grapple with the issue of abortion?” Tapper asked.

“Well this was, this was an issue of course in my own household growing up Catholic, and it’s one that of course I think every thinking person has to grapple with on a personal level, on a moral level and also on a legal level when one is sworn to uphold the laws of our country,” O’Malley said.

“I am pro-choice, having said that, I also believe that there are some issues that the government’s just no good at making for individuals. Among those decisions, the decisions made between women and their doctors, and so, but I do believe that all of us can make a lot of strides as a country in reducing infant mortality and eradicating childhood hunger,” he said.

“And that’s the common good, and that’s the work we focus on even as we leave to the individuals conscience some of these other decisions the government’s just no good at doing,” O’Malley added.