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Why We Refuse To Be New York

Originally posted at National Right to Life News Today, February 1, 2019: https://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2019/02/why-we-refuse-to-be-new-york/ Last week, to the cheers of state Democratic officeholders, New York expanded the “right” to abortion up to...

Invisible

A poem to survivors as we March for Life. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about you, fellow survivor. I know living in this world, where abortion is talked about in hushed tones or angry outbursts makes you want to be invisible.  Why would you ever share...

Resolving to Follow the Little Nudges and Gut Checks

On a long drive home recently, my GPS was slow in guiding my step after a rest stop with the girls. I started to prematurely turn on a frontage road instead of the Interstate, and quickly steered back to take the Interstate ramp at the next turn. I was patting myself...

Hurry, Christmas—Repost

I’m taking a break from writing this Advent season. While I’m away, enjoy a couple of posts from years past. Originally posted December 2017. Confession: I’m one of *those* people who starts longing to put the Christmas tree up as Halloween rolls around. I’m not sure...

Hope Shines in the Darkness of the Late-Term Abortion Capital

Albuquerque, New Mexico. The unfortunately but aptly termed “late term abortion capital” of the nation. In case you didn’t know, New Mexico has very few laws regulating abortion, and in the state, abortion is legal up until the day of birth. I will forever recognize...

Lifetime Membership

“Nobody asked to be in this thing, and it’s got a lifetime membership.” What a profound statement. In the October 26th edition of USA Today, Rhonda Hart, the mother of Kimberly Vaughan, who was slain in the Santa Fe school shooting earlier this year, painfully...

God Saved Me So I Could Give You Life

In an October 16, 2018, interview with Susannah Hutcheson in USA Today, designer and entrepreneur Diane Von Furstenberg reflected upon her career, her lessons learned in both her work and life, and the philanthropic role she now undertakes in numerous organizations....

What IS Love?

Love. It’s changed my life. I hope it’s changed yours. Looking back on my life, I can see that even though my birth mother didn’t know about my existence for very long before the abortion was forced upon her, she loved me in those early days, despite the turmoil she...

We Don’t Meet People By Accident

Who would have thought 41 years ago, that a nurse who prayed over me in my NICU incubator at St. Luke’s Hospital would be a continued presence in my life. No one but God…. After my book, You Carried Me, was published in 2017, I was contacted by a nurse, Jan, who...

Courting Life: The Kavanaugh Confirmation

As Richard Wolf reported in his 2015 piece for USA Today, The 21 Most famous Supreme Court decisions, our nation’s history has been marked by numerous decisions that have shaped more than just our history. They’ve shaped how we view people and their experiences, and...