The following comes from a Feb. 11 story by Kathryn Jean Lopez in National Review.
On Bleecker Street in Manhattan, there is Planned Parenthood, and there is also a boutique for pregnant women. According to Vogue, the store, Hatch, “is arguably the first of its kind, in that it was designed specifically for pregnant shoppers: Changing rooms have a size chart to help you figure out how a garment will fit your belly a few months down the line; there’s a ‘cravings bar’ with candy, pickles, and ice cream; and Goldman set up a downstairs meeting space for workshops and lectures, including one on breastfeeding and another called Dudes to Dads, in which new fathers can learn how to swaddle or change a diaper.”
When I find myself in the neighborhood, I often wish somewhere in the middle of the road between the forceps and the ice cream there could be a perpetual meeting place, where any woman looking for a moment’s pause could find a respite. I think of a woman named Eleanor McCullen, who for years has stood outside Planned Parenthood in Boston with a sign offering help, hope, and love. Who doesn’t want those things, whatever you’re facing? Many a woman has been relieved by her presence, invited by her warm, grandmotherly smile to revisit her options, having been on her way in for an abortion. She stands out like a seat of wisdom, someone who will walk with you — and she does. So much so that she and her husband have children named after them, are godparents to children who are in the world because they stepped out to extend a hand to someone who needed to be pulled out of darkness.
I’ve been thinking a lot about those women who get lost in our debates about abortion, and their children. The State of the Union address was a little bit of an occasion of sin for me because I couldn’t get past the women in white. They seemed to care most about the fact that they are in Congress. And yet, what difference does that make? Shouldn’t it be a window for a more tender politics? Instead, the Democratic party most noticeably and alarmingly appears to be doubling down on brutality. If an unborn child survives an abortion — is delivered alive — even then her life is not worthy of protection? The doctor governor of Virginia said as much the day before his medical-school yearbook hit the news for a blackface image. I was grateful for a moment for the connection it made between the two civil-rights movements. But, of course, that message seemed lost on most of those with the megaphones calling for his resignation. Are we resigned to such a poisonous way of life, one that is the very opposite of life-giving?
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/socialissues/citizen-magazine/life-issues/eleanor-mccullen-reaching-the-culture-with-more-than-words
Thank you for posting that link. I enjoyed reading that article on Eleanor McCullen; a courageous, selfless, and faithful woman. That’s the type of women we really need in Congress.
Republicans need to consider their House membership is increasingly stale, pale, and male. They had only one new female member elected last year.
And the point of this is?
The point seems to be that Mike thinks that white men aren’t doing as well as women and people of color could do. It’s all race and gender based. It implies that we should elect people not because of their integrity or qualifications, but because they have a certain amount of color in their skin or a certain gene set, XX but not XY.
No, it’s the fact that the Teapublican “leadership” of the House is no more representative of the US at large than am I of the DAR.
In other words, Higgins’ assessment of your post is correct. People can only represent those with whom they share certain DNA traits. The content of a person’s character doesn’t matter.
There is bigotry that the mainstream accepts: prejudice and bigotry against whites, against white males, against Southern whites and Southern white males. Against Catholics, against Christians especially evangelical Christians.
Hadn’t heard “stale, pale and male”. But I guess some people think discrimination and hatred is cute. It’s not.
So Mike M., what you are saying is that most people of color and women are for unbridled abortion and phony same-sex marriages as they let those ideas take over their party. That is quite an indictment.
Of course I was referring to Mike M’s indictment of people of color and women of the Democratic Party since the party platform encourages those things.
In actuality, though, there are Democrats who want border control, and secretly vote for it when it put on a ballot. There are also people of color who secretly vote for pro life candidates of a party other than their own. People often say one thing and vote another.
I should have written in my last line that people often belong to one party, but often vote against some of its policies.I doubt the women pictured here are anything but pro abortion and for the policies the Democratic Party advocates.
Underlying logic is that being male & white is inherently wrong if not evil. the Left despises the “white male” and uses it as bogeyman for all their problems. They despise Western culture because they believe it was wrong from the beginning… Straight White and Proud.
And ‘this’ might refer to??
The men of this country do not need pious and sanctimonious sermons about toxic masculinity. The women of the democratic party should leave us alone.
The Socialist-Democrat women in white stand to applaud themselves. They should listen to our Donaldus Magnus before voting infanticide.
The only thing missing is a Nazi arm band with the Swastyka on it.
I have never seen an MMA fight that is anywhere near as appalling as the murder of babies. Baby killers do not need to be giving anyone lectures about toxic masculinity.
I saw a picture of a book about toxic femininity on Spirit Daily’s website. It is long overdue. The death of a multitude of babies makes it clear that there is something wrong that needs to be discussed.
Many things are wrong. Abortion is the leading cause of death in our country. It is estimated that one third of US women have had an abortion. When you add in all the people who are directly and indirectly involved, it has to be over half of our country. They may or may not be feminists. They may be pro choice but the choice is “Do I kill someone or let them live?”
Mainstream media likes to portray this as a woman having rights over her own body but the truth is that the baby is not a part of the woman’s body. It is a separate person who deserves to be treated with care and dignity.
I wonder if anyone has ever calculated the volume of blood that was spilled due to the large number of babies getting killed.