Making myself perfectly clear!

Truths!

1. Abortion is wrong. It is the taking of a life. You can not speak about abortion as if it is not the taking of another human life. You can not say it is wrong until it becomes less difficult then another option.

2. It is a medical fact that life begins at conception. It is the wish of the pro-choice movement to confuse that with terms like "sustainable life". Regardless of what ever distinction you want to put on it - LIFE BEGINS at conception.

Rape is NOT an excuse to take the life of another. The fact that a woman is raped is vile and sad and disgusting! It does not, however give her the automatic right to take the life of an innocent.

There are at least 1.3 million abortions in the US every year! IN THE US 9,100 of those are attributed to rape. 15,000 of them are in the "hard case" file to include rape, incest, and life of the mother.

So in my blog about Dr. Tiller I suggested that Obama's statement that the two sides (pro-life and pro-choice) are irreconcilable was irresponsible and inaccurate. I suggested that the two sides will never fully agree but that with discussion we could come to SOME common ground. With COMPROMISE on BOTH sides we could STOP 1.27 million abortions EVERY YEAR!

Compromise:
–noun
1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.
from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compromise

A compromise does not mean one side gives the other side takes. My suggestion that we look at the bulk of the abortions - the ones given to women who use it as a form of birth control, the ones who just don't want to be bothered or who might face a little depression because they have made choices in their lives that result in unwelcome circumstances. I suggested that I could compromise and say lets just look at that 99%. Lets see if we can agree to get rid of those abortions.

The compromise on the pro-choice side of that would be that any woman seeking an abortion would have to prove the hard case.

Well, apparently that made me unpopular with both sides of the debate. And I'm laughing really. Laughing because this is not an issue where I thought I'd make friends anyway. Granted I expected opposition from pro-choice but I can take it from both. Because a life is a life. And I believe that if we can stop that 99% that would be HUGE. I never suggested that would be the end of our discussions. I said that the two sides are not completely irreconcilable.

1.27 million babies die every year in this country because they are an inconvenience. Approximately 2 million couples seek information about adoption each year. That seems like a problem solved if we just get those two groups together.

I do not live in a dream world. I don't expect that all of the sudden the world will become perfect - well till Judgment day anyway. then we will have perfection! My job is to see if I can help make strides in the right direction. Getting rid of 99% of the abortions in the US would be a stride in the right direction.

I'm sorry if you think it is callous to expect a woman who has been raped to carry a child. I'm sorry if you think it is harsh to expect a woman who has been raped to make her accuser known. You will never convince me that a woman who has been raped by a sadistic SOB has the right to kill an innocent child.

What I am not sorry for is that fact that I think women in general are WAY stronger than they believe themselves to be, that in the end they really will be better off in knowing that they have either kept the blessing they have been given even in the face of a horrendous act. Or that they have given the extraordinary gift of that blessing to someone else. That I hold an innocent life more important than the embarrassment, and shame some women wrongfully feel after they have been raped. And I am not sorry that I get the word out, because some where out there is a woman/girl who is not fully decided on ending the life of her child and that she might see my words and read them and know that there are people out here that care what happens to them AND their child. People who truly believe and KNOW that they can make it through this WITHOUT putting themselves through an abortion too.

I am including a link here to a woman's page who is living proof that something good can come when a mother decides that she can be selfless enough to give her child, regardless of the circumstances of her conception, the right to life!

Rebecca Kiessling

Also included here see her interview:







God Bless!