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Life Finds a Way
Earlier today, my husband was telling me about a story he’d just read in the Wall Street Journal about attacks on crisis pregnancy centers. I’d been hearing about those too, and it was hard not to feel that evil has our country in its grip. If people are going to respond to attempts to stop abortion by trying to force it on women who have nowhere else to turn, what are we doing? Will finally overturning Roe v. Wade result in an explosion of abortion in states that make it egregiously easy and import mothers from other states? It seems like for every step good takes, evil takes three.
Then I saw a thread on Twitter (now also available in similar form on the tweeter’s Substack) about a Washington Post story that was obviously intended to show how horrible Texas’s abortion laws are for women but inadvertently told a heartwarming tale of a couple and two beautiful babies that, you know, kinda has a happy ending. And it made me think that, I don’t know, maybe good is getting its running shoes on and making this a race?
It reminded me of a song by one of my favorite country artists, HARDY, from a couple of years ago that slipped a pro-life story into what might sound like a drinking song.
I always expected to see somebody making a fuss about this song, but the YouTube comments for this lyric video and two other official videos instead feature people saying that the same thing happened to them and they’re so grateful. “Felt like the end of the world, now the world don’t spin without ’em” indeed.
I don’t know about you, but I’m taking my hope and inspiration where I can get them these days. Evil is louder, but maybe good is sneakier, and finds its way somehow into hearts and minds. We can pray, anyway.
Published in Domestic Policy
But so few manage to escape…
I wish we could take the win – assuming it is a win – and be happy. The issue of abortion is back to the individual states as it should be.
People can freely travel among the several states. That’s how it works.But people can also travel freely among these states, even if we don’t approve of their reasons for doing so.That means quickie divorces in Vegas and abortions in ElAy.
It’d be easier if the other side would take the loss—and take it for the change of jurisdiction it is and not a catastrophic denial of liberty that must be fought with firebombs and spite.
Illinois is going for the abortion tourism industry, and the governor, JB Prickster, has presidential ambitions.
I agree.
If it makes leftie Californians not want to move to Texas I’m all for it.
And … the family in the Washington Post story has a GoFundMe … https://twitter.com/TomShakely/status/1539380744056979457?s=20&t=R2UTiT9FyMtRPxdy1SVcMA
Every life saved is a win. The state laws DO protect life. It’s not 100% successful, but neither is my spaghetti strainer. It sure beats trying to drain spaghetti without one, though.
I don’t want to get caught up in the leftist mindset that we need it perfectly irradicated. Rejoice and be thankful for these lives and others that have been saved and keep praying for the rest.
The characterization of readily available abortions as “a beacon of hope in an increasingly dark world” is just … just … a breathtaking display of soullessness. And a particular level of hell, I’d think.
Also good if it makes the leftie Texans want to move (back) to California.
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beacon of hopefires of Moloch in an increasingly dark world.Regarding the states that will do tourism abortion. Let them, God is not mocked. They will turn more into hell holes.
Look at the bounty God gave California. The devil turned it into his play thing. And it is broke and falling apart with people fleeing.
Light is brightest when set against the dark . Dark is going to do what dark does . The states where the light is observed will shine brighter.
The people of California (mostly) turned California into the devil’s plaything.
Francis Cardinal George, (former) Archbishop of Chicago:
Scarifice of infants has a long and rich history. Abortion is religious. The other side worship Baal.
And they worship multiculturalism, including such as the Aztecs.
Washington State Planned Parenthood is already preparing for abortion tourism, having set up a new clinic on the Idaho border for all the women fleeing that horrific state. And our insurance regulations mandate abortion coverage for all medical insurance plans sold in the state.
Anyone remember this?
Look, the left is already violent. Let’s get this decision out, and be prepared to defend ourselves from the mob . . .
Oh, what might have been.
This is the same guy who’s family is profiting from pushing the trans agenda. It doesn’t speak well of his moral core values….https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers
If anybody has seen a contradictory explanation or refytation of their involvement I’d love to see it.
Amen, Brother
Yeah, that free will thing does come into play
The devil informs that with the exception if blues and heavy metal, the devil has not much to do with America.
What about Demo(n)crats?