Margaret's Testimony
A Place for Women in Waipio offers separate group classes for men and women as well as an individual study. All classes are free.
More information on our classes can be found at:
http://www.oahupregnancycenter.com/Services/Post_Abortion_Recovery_Class/index.html
We are currently conducting interviews for the upcoming winter session.
If you are post-abortive and interested in our classes, please call our office at 808-678-3991 and speak to a Life Advocate to set up an interview for our next session.
Cheryl's Testimony
A Place for Women in Waipio offers separate group classes for men and women as well as an individual study. All classes are free.
More information on our classes can be found at:
http://www.oahupregnancycenter.com/Services/Post_Abortion_Recovery_Class/index.html
We are currently conducting interviews for the upcoming winter session.
If you are post-abortive and interested in our classes, please call our office at 808-678-3991 and speak to a Life Advocate to set up an interview for our next session.
Call It What It Is
I read the story today on The Blaze and LifeNews.com. Both times I read the story I was saddened that a marriage announcement would include the abortion as a rite of passage from hard times to celebration. The ball player is Udonis Haslem of the Miami Heat and his wife. This appears to be another case of the Bro Choice and abortion movement pushing abortion as a viable option with little negative emotional consequence. In fact, this abortion is heralded as a magnanimous decision that helped solidify the couple's relationship. He cared for her so lovingly after she had her abortion.
Bro Choice is an organized movement of men that are for abortions. The men go as far as to share how to encourage or talk a woman into getting an abortion. They also give states that have more lenient abortion laws that make abortions easier to come by. The men want no consequence or emotional involvement with the woman. The woman is almost a toy purely for sexual gratification. How is this liberation? This seems like a fancy way to become a sex slave. (Here is an article with a video on Bro-Choice. http://christiannews.net/2013/07/16/)
The man in the Bro Choice movement is taught to "fake" a relationship to have unprotected sex without involvement. The man uses the woman like a common sex worker, harlot, or prostitute. The woman may be unaware of such a cavalier or indifferent attitude. This is not a relationship it is a hoax, mirage, a slide of hand. This is supposed to be progress?
How can we encourage young women to carry their babies when they cannot trust the person they have known so intimately? The media celebrates the termination then walks away from the young women believing that they have cured the woman of her "problem". However, long after the baby is gone the woman suffers. Statistically, a woman is far more likely to be suicidal and suffer mental health problems. The woman will often become pregnant again shortly after to recover the child she aborted. Sadly, many times the woman will abort that second child as well. Often, women that have had abortions are apt to have had multiple abortions.
Realistically, their baby would have looked like both of them. Their baby was protected until they sought surgical intervention to remove the baby. They will never know the laughter, smile, capability, or personality of the child they killed. Was the baby going to play ball like his father or be a runner like his/her mother? In their celebration of the decision they made, a child was forever erased. I will grieve the loss and the loss of the children I will never know.
What resources as a Pro Life community can we provide to women to encourage life? What emotional support can we give? Develop a rapport with women and men. Let us begin discussing life and mentoring. Let us as a community create and foster our Ohana! Let us walk along our beautiful women Let us teach our men to stand tall and offer them hope and resources. Let us open our homes and help them to live with intention.
by Noel
Guest Blogger
You Looked Sad Today . . .
I think about the mothers that have aborted their babies and the loss they continue to experience. I think about the lies they were told and how they won't experience the birth of their baby. I think about how the abortion process itself is such a violation. I have read the lies that Abortion clinics write like calling your baby's remain "Products of Conception" instead of a baby. I can imagine you carry a great deal inside you.
As if going to the gynecologist is not bad enough, going to the gynecologist and having your cervix pried open to begin the abortion process is even more invasive. ADr. Levantino describes what the abortion process is like on this Youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53tzMV9OmvY. He describes the process of aborting a baby and what you must do to abort a baby that is large. Not only did you think this abortion might solve your trouble, you were led to believe regret was just propaganda.
If you are over 26 weeks it will take 3 days for your cervix to dilate enough to pass your baby. At this point, your baby is viable outside of the womb. For three days you will go through seaweed sticks in your cervix and other measures to have your baby come out enough after the abortion is performed. You will feel your baby do his/her final kicks during the waiting.
If you experienced your baby in any manner, and then aborted your baby, I can imagine you might have any number of emotions. It is not uncommon to feel the following: regret, sadness, hopelessness, depression, loneliness, and even other emotions. Sometimes, you may not feel anything till many years later.
I may not know you, I may not have acknowledged you, and maybe I did not even know the secret you were carrying, but I think of the beautiful sculpture I once saw of a woman and a little girl in glass gently touching her mother's head. That image reminds me of the pain that you may carry. There is hope and peace for you. This sculptor, Martin Hudáček, of Slovakia describes his reason for such a sculpture and the message he sends to those that have had abortions.
April 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As an art student, Martin Hudáček of Slovakia was moved to create a sculpture to draw attention to the devastation abortion can bring to the woman, and to the fact that through the love and mercy of God, reconciliation and healing are possible. The sculpture shows a woman in great sorrow grieving her abortion. The second figure in the work is the aborted child, presented as a young child, who in a very touching, healing way, comes to the mother, to offer forgiveness.
Martin, who named the work “Memorial for Unborn Children,” said the sculpture also “expresses hope which is given to believers by the One who died on the cross for us, and showed how much He cares about all of us.” http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/heart-rending-young-slovakian-sculptor-captures-post-abortion-pain-mercy-an/
Sculptor: Martin Hudáček; born 1984; home: Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
by Noel
Guest Blogger