Pro-life: for my sistuhs

Yeah, I'm pro-life and "feminist." I heard a great definition for feminist before: One who believes woman should be first recognized as human beings and then by their female gender. Yup, I'm one of those. The words on the shirt say a feminist is "powerful, compassionate, and a balanced woman" Good words to describe who I'd like to become. What woman doesn't want to and need to feel like she is powerful in life, lives compassionately and balanced (now there is the challenging one for me). The "compassionate" word is the one I think feminists need to think about even when it refers to their unwanted babies.

I'm kind of one of those quieter pro-lifers. I believe that taking the life of a child in their mother's womb is wrong, but I rarely do anything to speak out about this belief. My sister is the vocal one on this topic. I generally don't like talking about topics that might separate me from people I love and care for. Today I was reading in my Bible about Jesus' birth and how Herod, the king of the time, had all the baby boys in Bethlehem under 2 killed. He was jealous of the new "King of the Jews" (Jesus) and wanted to have him destroyed at all cost. Let's just say I got challenged. I was so disturbed about this story. How awful! What a massacre! It made me sick. Suddenly, though, I realized in our nation the same thing has been happening for quite some time through abortion. How could I be so angry about one and not the other? I realized for me it's because abortion is out of my sight, out of my life. I don't have to deal with it on any kind of regular basis.

I want to be one who protects "little ones" (fetus), but also (and perhaps even more) one who fights for young (or old) mothers who have to deal with devastating circumstances around "unwanted pregancy," "negligent fathers" "family disapproval"etc. Sistuhs, we gotta think twice before we let any boy take sex from us. It's just not worth taking that risk for ourselves or our children.

I'll have to write more sometime soon.