Purposeful Dreamer

Friday, June 17, 2005

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Elephass: Mascot of the Republocrat Party

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PREGNANT? UPSET? SCARED?
4,800 confidential groups helping now.
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SAD ABOUT AN ABORTION? We are too.

Feeling Really Bad?: Call
1-800-SUICIDE & a friend, right now.

George & Linda Zallie, Stacy's parents, "assisting women who made the difficult choice of ending their pregnancy in finding nonjudgmental help" for suicidal feelings.

For immediate help, also call tollfree, 24/7: 1-866-482-5433; 1-877-Hope-4-Me
or 1-800-5WE-CARE...& click here if it was recent...more help below...
The Harris Protocol

"I would now like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion...[many people are] aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and [do] not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace … You will come to understand that nothing is definitively lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child…With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your own painful experience, you can be among the most eloquent defenders of everyone's right to life. Through your commitment to life, whether by accepting the birth of other children or by welcoming and caring for those most in need of someone to be close to them, you will become promoters of a new way of looking at human life."

Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle: Banno On Boxer and the Illegal Abortion Deaths Urban Legend

Ellen Goodman retraction impetus
~ listed in National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru's book The Party of Death, p. 255, Chap. 3 Endnote #11, 4/06

"After Abortion,...run by Emily Peterson and Annie Banno, two women who had abortions in the 1970s, ...tries to avoid the political tug-of-war that tends to come with this turf. They concentrate instead on discussing the troubling personal effects of abortion on the mothers." ~ Eric Scheske, contributing editor, Godspy, in NC Register, 3/06

"Godbloggers could, in the best of worlds, become the new apologists...[including] laymen with day jobs: Emily Peterson and Annie Banno, for instance, at the blog After Abortion..."
~ Jonathan V. Last, online editor of
The Weekly Standard, in First Things,
12/05

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If You're Feeling Suicidal: Call
1-800-SUICIDE & a friend, right now.
ALSO: Toll-free national, confidential hotline: 1-877-HOPE-4-ME
(1-877-467-3463).
A 2nd #: 1-800-5WE-CARE...& click here if it's a recent abortion. And more help below
Hope After Abortion
Rachel's Vineyard Retreats (non-Christians, even non-religious do attend; they also have interdenominational retreats designed expressly for people of any religion or no religion)
National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing
Abortion Recovery International
Hope Alive
In Our Midst
Ramah International
Lumina - Hope & Healing After Abortion
Books That Help (includes non-religious Post Abortion recovery books)
Silent No More Awareness Campaign
After Abortion
Some non-religious and other message boards, e-groups

Suicides after abortion: a list
Forced Abortions: a list
Maternal Deaths from Abortions: a list
Lime 5
The S.I.C.L.E. Cell
Our friend Charnette's story
Catholic Exchange columns
Women's own stories, from "A Fine Kettle of Fish"

The Boycott List, American Cancer Society, "Daffodils and Dildos", Komen Foundation, March of Dimes, United Way, Bill Gates' Foundation, National Education Association (teachers' union), Rockefeller Foundation, Warren Buffet (Dairy Queen, GEICO, Benjamin Moore, Fruit of the Loom), Ted Turner (CNN), eBay Founder.

Unbiased (non-pro-life) Medical Sites:
Virtual Library, Society for Developmental Biology
UCal MedCenter's Visible Embryo Site
UCal Recommended Embryology Links
"Zygote" - non-sectarian Swarthmore College medical images site
65 prenatal-defect babies not aborted:
(click for all links)
Anencephaly, Cloacal Exstrophy, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Congenital Heart Defects, Cystic Hygroma and/or Fetal Hydrops, Down Syndrome (DS), Holoprosencephaly, Hydrocephalus, Kidney Defects, Lissencephaly, Misdiagnosed, Multiple Defects, Rare trisomies, deletions, and duplications, Skeletal Dysplasia, Spina Bifida, Triploidy, Trisomy 13, Trisomy 18, Turner Syndrome, Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Prenatal Partners For Life (similar to above two, support for parents by parents + medical folk)
DS Adoption Groups, Resources
WHO codes, CDC computers reject coding women's deaths from legal abortion
Surgeon General Koop Abortion Report
APA's DSM: abortion = cause of PTSD
Shredding Planned Parenthood's Myths
Links to all 15 "Shredding Myths" Posts
Your First 9 Months
Hyscience blog
Stem Cells' Benefits Compare-Chart
ASCs: 150 published research studies
Stem Cell Research
Stem Cells: Money Talks, Nobody Walks
No Such Thing as Spare Embryo: Snowflake Babies
Disabled Testify Against Cloning/ESCR
IVF
"Acorns and Embryos"
Intelligent Design (ID) v. Darwinism
Intelligent Design: (click for all links) Ph.D's. in math, biochem, molecular/cell bio, comp.sci., physics & geology, from Princeton & UPENN (both Ivies), MIT, U-Chicago, Cambridge (UK), UCLA & Nat'l.Sci.Found'n.
Abortion / Breast Cancer:
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Journal of American Physicians + Surgeons on A/BC Link
Breast Cancer Prevention Institute
American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Catholic Medical Association
National Physicians Center for Family Resources
The Polycarp Research Institute
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
Abortion/Breast Cancer Link

Entertainment Folk:
Rock For Life
Punk Bands for Life

Sandra Cano's Affidavit
Legal Status
Legal Process

Leslie Burke, Terri Schindler-Schiavo, Sarah Scantlin, Joni Eareckson Tada, Michael Fund, "First Do No Harm," Will To Live document, Life Matters!, How Terri Did Starve To Death, Wesley Smith's Secondhand Smoke, and more.

New Love in the Son - for ex-gays to read encouragement from other ex-gays
Sed Contra
Dawn McDonald

Region-specific blogs of note: Washington, Midwest, California, Connecticut, Canada (adding as we get the time)

9/11 Tribute
Catholic and Enjoying It!
American Papist: Not Your Average Catholic (cool pix; for young folks)
Relapsed Catholic
St. Blogs Parish Hall
Some Catholic Blogs

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