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I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a message that so charged me, chilled me, left me crying, shouting, clapping and ready to fight for my Savior.

An incredible story, Ms. Jessen is a woman after my own heart.
Don’t, don’t, don’t skip this emotionally-charged message!

“Are you willing to be hated?”

Can I just say it again…ABORTION IS NEVER RIGHT.

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My favorite part: “Men, you were made for greatness…women, you were made to know your worth, to be fought for….my whole purpose in life is to make God smile.”

I’ll continue to talk about the link between the “contraceptive mindset” of the feminist movement and the plethora of social ills it has birthed (no pun intended), because if we don’t get a firm grip on our thinking, and stop letting other people tell us what is acceptable and what is good, we will continue the spiral into moral and physical destruction. And I don’t want that!

Furthermore, as more and more people get this connection, I am more hopeful for the future of our children and grandchildren.

Daja sent me this article that reveals just a few of the problems we’ve brought on ourselves. Isn’t it interesting…God’s Word is always right! After all our “highly intellectual” debating and philosophizing over situational ethics and theology, the simple truth of Scripture comes back to say “I told you so”.

An excerpt from A Second Baby? Russia’s Mothers Aren’t Persuaded reads:

“Cash for babies is the Kremlin’s offer to women in its latest bid to reverse a population decline that threatens to leave large swaths of Russia virtually uninhabited within 50 years.

President Vladimir Putin last week defined the crisis as Russia’s most acute problem, and promised to spend some of the country’s oil profits on efforts to relieve it. He ordered…that women who choose to have a second baby will receive 250,000 rubles ($9,200), a staggering sum in a country where average monthly incomes hover close to $330.

On Monday, young women at the Family Planning Youth Center,… said they liked the sound of more money, but suggested that Mr. Putin has no concept of their lives. ‘A child is not an easy project, and in this world a woman is expected to get an education, find a job, and make a career,’…

Russia also has one of the world’s highest abortion rates.”

This article reveals two problems…a population implosion (don’t sing me a song about over-population), and the obvious connection between the “contraceptive mentality” and abortion. We could unravel a lot more if we had the time.

So we are forced to ask, as I’ve asked many times on this blog, what’s the connection? How is it all related? How can we trace back to the roots of so many social problems and begin to repair them? And most importantly, are we willing to face the true answers?

As you read and consider, remember that judgement begins in the house of God. If this were only a “problem of pagans”, we know the answer is Jesus. But “as the church, so goes the culture”. WE have bought the feminist lie…and we’re paying for it.

Consider the excerpt below that explains how contraceptive mentality leads to abortion mentality. And then, in light of this election, when we Christians are prone to get on our “abortion-fighting high horse”, let’s first take a deeper look and admit that the problem started a long time ago in more subtle activities. And we may be part of the problem.

“Just as contraception is used to prevent an unwanted child from being conceived, so too abortion is used to prevent an unwanted child from being born. As Joseph Boyle states, “the approval of contraception leads–though not in such a direct and logical way–to acceptance of abortion. Contraception is an attempt to prevent the handing on of life, and one who turns against life as it is passed on is likely to remain against it if the unwanted new life begins. The resolve to prevent a child from coming to be is often sufficiently strong that one will eliminate the child whose conception was not prevented.”

One estimate puts the number of American women using birth control at 36 million. Dr. Donald DeMarco remarks that it is ironic that as much as the feminist movement claims to seek greater freedom for women, “The feminist ideology of ‘reproductive freedom’ through medical intervention, actually welcomes medical exploitation.” Alice Paul, author of the original Equal Rights Amendment in 1923 stated, “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” In 1869, Susan B. Anthony wrote, “No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death….”

From Contraceptive Mentality

Maybe, using my “turn left at the end of the road” analogy, “be fruitful and multiply” implies by default that one can’t “be unfruitful and not multiply” at the same time. And maybe God had more in mind than simply the number of children when He gave that command.

Because children have been devalued, and we’re so busy pursuing “more important ventures”, it’s not as hard to let someone else raise them and abdicate our responsibility. We truly have not maintained the import of nurturing and training children among society.

Because of our self-centered drive, careerism has been exalted above making a home, and an “unwanted pregnancy” is, well, unwanted. And now I have a *choice* without anyone knowing.

The breakdown of the family…that’s the root of this monster we’ve created. Feminism, humanism and socialism are at the root of this breakdown.

Since we sloughed off all basic responsibilities of parental values being transferred to children, we’ve received the consequence of teen promiscuity to a degree never imagined before in history. (And remember, now that there’s birth control, parents are all the less anxious about pregnancy; and all the more encouraged to exterminate one.)

We’ve allowed the state to teach our children–the institution that has abandoned every principle upon which morality is found, and has reinforced to them the “isms” that are destroying us.

We said home is not important. We said it when we said Mom should, or at least can leave and “be somebody”. And when the gatekeeper leaves, bad things happen.

We said men were no longer responsible for leading and lovingly guiding; and they gladly stepped aside.

Marx and his cronies were smart enough to know how to break the entire nation down to where we are; we’re just not smart enough to realize it and be willing to change it.

If anyone is thoroughly sick and desperate for the atrocities of abortion to end, I am. Please don’t sling accusations to the contrary. Hear my humble desperation. This is a problem far too out of hand to solve with a vote for a mostly pro-life President and his feminist Vice President. This is a job for God’s favor on a nation that turns back to Him.

I can’t justify supporting the root of the cause in some feeble hope of hacking at the branch.