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More evil progressiliberal tripe and my heartfelt reaction to same
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 12:44PM I know this video is going around and you've all likely seen it already.
But I wanted to go on record with a few things regarding this one, as it cuts pretty close to home.
Please watch -- it's blessedly short -- and then I'll explain.
On December 21, 2004 -- the shortest day of that year -- it went dark very early indeed when a nurse with a tearstained face told me that my first grandchild had been born with a cleft palate and what she termed "some type of syndrome."
The compassionate and kindly nurse -- name of Ramona -- had been present at the birth of my son-in-law 26 years before, in the same hospital. She is a friend of the family.
I didn't know what Ramona meant by everything she said, but I knew it couldn't be good. I dropped to my knees in the waiting room and prayed for baby Melanie, and for my daughter and her husband.
Later that day we learned Melanie had stopped breathing at some point during the birth process. Nobody was sure for how long, or what the result of that event might be. We also learned that while her tiny palate was cleft, her lip was not. Her little face was perfect except for her chin, which was smaller than normal.
Virginia Ironside -- the British "agony aunt" holding forth with such conviction in the video -- claims to believe that if Melanie was "deeply suffering" and if my daughter truly loved her child, she should have held a pillow over Melanie's head and suffocated her.
She also believes that if my daughter had known Melanie was going to be born with health problems, it would have been a "kindness" to go ahead and kill her before the child ever had a chance to live outside the womb.
I wish I had never experienced the day my Melanie was born with a disability. I wish I could call her right now and hear her little voice telling me about what she learned in school today.
Melanie will be six in December and she has yet to speak. She tries so hard, but the words won't come.
On that day nearly six years ago, we had no way of knowing the extent to which Melanie was suffering. She didn't seem to be in pain. She struggled to breathe and could not be fed in the normal way, but there is technology for situations like that and her medical care was excellent.
What we did know was that she was dearly loved and utterly cherished by a sizable coterie of doting grandparents, aunts, uncles, and extended kinfolk.
The family gathered around to offer support and encouragement of every kind. Thousands of prayers went up for our darling grandchild, and I believe Almighty God heard every one.
The fact that Melanie is still with us today and brings such joy to our lives in spite -- or maybe because -- of her mysterious disability (there have been precious few answers to what goes on with Melanie; mostly it's a wait-and-see thing), is testament to the fact that life is sacred and it is our responsibility -- no, it's our privilege -- to protect it.
We are now well into the second generation of Americans who defend abortion as a Constitutional right. We're lectured by the left not to get all emotional about what Ms. Ironside casually describes as "a couple of cells."
Is it any wonder there are people like the vile Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, whose pernicious brand of social gospel involves parents having the right to legally murder their children up until the age of 28 days, or -- and this is his ideal age for voluntary parental extermination -- maybe even two years?
Just because they aren't "satisfied" with some aspect of the child's health or appearance -- or its very existence?
I guess we should have seen this coming.
People who will not only espouse but advocate, and not only advocate but crusade for the killing of the unborn, and who -- like the President of the United States -- are in favor of the savage murder of children whose heads are born but whose bodies are still inside their mothers, or of allowing the newly-born to die alone and untended, would have no qualm with murdering a living, breathing, walking, talking human being of up to two years of age.
And why stop there? It's a matter of time before the progressiliberals will demand the passing of laws allowing them to determine when and how people of any and every age are meant to die. People who don't meet some arbitrary criteria of who is worthy to draw another breath.
Well ... they already want that. It's only a matter of time before they get it.
I hope I'm gone when that happens. If I'm not, I pray God will give me the courage to live in such a world and not be bitter.
And God be with my children, and my grandchildren -- now aged five and two. I pray God will protect them and bring them to a saving knowledge of Christ at an early age. I pray they'll walk with Him throughout their lives.
But I don't pray for them to never experience suffering. It is suffering that allows us to understand comfort. What would life be without the comforting embrace and soothing words of one who loves us? God promised He would not leave us comfortless. What would life be without the Comforter?
Thank God, we have hope. We have hope because God has seen fit to change us. Hope and change. In the right context, those are powerful words. No man owns them but every man and woman can benefit from them if they will humble themselves and repent, and turn from their wicked ways.
God bless the United States of America and turn her back to Himself.
Allissa, Melanie, and their adoring mother on Stephanie's 30th birthday, September 9, 2010
Melanie ... October 4, 2010
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
~John 14: 18 and 26~
Reader Comments (16)
Amen.
Perfectly and passionately written.
That damn woman would have also killed my sister who has Cerebral Palsy....not fit to live! 27 days sweetheart...27 days.
The Girls are Beautiful!!
hughugs
Good thing Melanie was born to your daughter, and not a libtard like that Professor Death.
I am almost speechless. My heart sank as I heard what she was saying, and my mind struggles to even understand the way she thinks. I have a niece with Crouzons disease which is a genetic abnormality of the face and skull bones. She has had so many surgeries in her life, and yes, there has been pain, both physical and the pain that a family feels when seeing someone they love go through something hard. However, none of us, nor she herself would have ever wanted or considered a "pillow". That is one confused woman and I truly feel Satan is using her.
I read your post early this day, and have not been able to get it out of my mind or heart. How could such evil come out of her mouth?
@Irene ... I believe this woman is so seared and scarred by sin that she has been given over to a reprobate mind. The Bible has lots to say about such people. She is a degenerate. There may be no hope for her soul. I cannot think of any other reason someone would say such a thing. It is incomprehensible. I can't get it out of my mind either.
@Hobbit ... thanks luv.
@Donna ... I'm right there with you counting the days. And I think "damned" perfectly describes this woman. I guess one could argue that while there's life there's hope, and as long as she is living there is a chance she could repent of her monstrous beliefs. But I think the argument against the likelihood of that happening is much stronger.
@Skunky ... ain't it the truth? I read somewhere that this woman is a mother and a grandmother. I wonder if her "rules" apply to them? I doubt it but either way, I feel sorry for the lot of them.
@Mari ... I couldn't agree more. This woman is a tool of Satan. So many progressives are duped already, and now they're starting to find strength in numbers. What sounded incredible even ten years ago, now "normal" people are beginning to listen to as though there might be some merit in the argument. I feel for your family and your niece; I know how hard it is when a little loved one is sick. But how terrible to have someone suggest that because she is not "perfect" (whatever that is), she was not fit to live. It just isn't true. Every life is precious.
I am giving you a standing ovation!!! I saw that video and was aghast. Where would the murders end? How about the seniors next? We have Muslim terrorists and we now have progressive terrorists!
@Donna ... I don't deserve a standing ovation but I'm glad folks like you are standing with me and others against this barbaric treatment of women and children. It seems new forms of terrorism are "born" each day while more children perish.
I heard that woman on Fox this morning and could not believe my ears. The two women interviewing her were almost speechless it seems.
Beautiful personal story from you and response to the woman and all those who feel as she does.
I am completely against abortion (murder). I think I told you before that shortly after Roe V. Wade was enacted I worked for a large firm in Memphis. One associated had Planned Parenthood as a client. She wanted me fired because I wrote a letter to the editor speaking out against abortion. However, my immediate boss was the top attorney in the firm, and he told me I did not have to do any of the Planned Parenthood work if I felt uncomfortable with it. I swapped that work with someone else.
I came to say hello and to thank you for all the sweet comments you've left of late. I found so much more than I expected. Your grands are beautiful and are in the very mind and heart of God. Humans should NOT be messing with that. You'd find a kindred spirit in Judy at My Front Porch, if you've never visited before. Her granddaughter was brought into this world knowing that she wouldn't live long. Now that is what I consider a tender privilege. Blessings to you and yours and may the speech issue your grandgirlie is dealing with be healed by His power. (My little grand is autistic. I suppose that hateful woman would kill him, too.)
@Debbie ... I salute you for standing up for what you believed in when the environment was at least partially hostile. And good on that lawyer for taking your side. I would have done the same, even then. I hate abortion with all my might. For many years I wrote resumes for a living, from a home-based office. One day a lady came in and told me she wanted me to write a resume and several cover letters for her, so that she could get a job with Planned Parenthood. I needed the money but I refused to help her and I told her why. She looked surprised. My tax dollars already fund abortion; that's a bitter enough pill for me. It's all about the collective power of those "little protests."
@Vee ... Oh, I do love your blog. It's so refreshing. Thanks for stopping by IHATH and for your kind words! And I will definitely visit Judy!
I would have put my hands on this woman for sure. Someone needs to beat some sense into her. It's probably NOT the right way to handle someone like this but dang.....
@Crystal ... I like your spirit! Like you, I would have trouble sitting still for this if I were in this woman's presence. I think I'd call her a name. I'd try to be a lady about it and I wouldn't resort to violence, but I might not mind if somebody "accidentally" tripped her. And then while she was "suffering" brought out a pillow ... O NOES! I said I wouldn't resort to violence~
Enough that she'll stand -- as will you and I -- before God the righteous judge someday.
It's appalling when so called experts feel their view must be the only and overriding view. That demonstrates a complete and utter lack of understanding,faith and compassion.
Did you watch the movie "Temple Grandin?" Based on a true story, due to autism, the doctors believed a 4 year old would need to be institutionalized for life. Fortunately, her family had the kind of faith that moves mountains. I know you do as well, my dear.
Thank you for sharing the pix of your lovely family!
@Keli ... LOVED Temple Grandin! One of the best movies I've seen in a long time. In fact, I bought the DVD. And yes, Temple is an excellent example of what this loony-sadist woman was talking about. It would have been kinder to kill her. Tell all the cattle that, and the farmers who have benefited so much from Temple's designs.