Went to pray with Jon in front of the Planned Parenthood today...then went to my Feminism class
I may look like a self contradiction
But really
I am a spy

An abortion presupposes something to be ended.

What is to be ended? Erratic Tissue?

No. Someone.

Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. What is that?

An embryo?

A fetus?

Yes. Of what?

A baby.

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40 Days for Life is a campaign from Sept 26-Nov 4th that is praying and fasting for an end to abortion. They are meeting in front of the Planned Parenthood every day in Pittsburgh from 6:30 a.m.- 8 p.m. and all night on Friday to join hearts and prayers for all of our precious unborn children, for their parents who suffer, and for the conversion of abortionists and all connected with this, our greatest tragedy against life. Jon and I joined them today and met some beautiful women who are out there standing up even though they are often insulted by passersby. They know the truth though and it is their concern for the unborn and for their mothers that keep them out there on their feet. Please call me if you want any information (915) 490-6988.


"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"

Congressman Henry Hyde

Creepy Man Who Lives in My Building

Hmmm...so I live in an apartment building where you have to access your own door from the inside, thus one door to get in the building and then one more door to get into my apartment. There is a creepy guy who lives in the building and whenever I am alone I am extra careful about getting inside. Anyway, I remember when I moved here, someone commented that it was safe that I had two doors...It occurred to me this week as I was juggling the front door and trying to get into my apartment safely all the while thinking about how the creepy guy lives in the same building, that it wasn't safe at all. This made me think of Robert Frost's poem that questions not only what we're walling out with a wall but what we're walling IN!
haha.. just something to think about

IQ Tests

Lauren: Yeah so I just took an IQ test online. I pretty much guessed on everything before even considering it, just to be done with the annoying thing. But then I still wanted a good score---like gratification without actually having to work hard.

Jon (laughing): I wish they just had a brain scanner so people wouldn't bother with things like that.

haha..
AGREED.

Proud Godmother; Look at her kick!

GO JON! I LOVE YOU TOO!

So I have been feeling runner's fever lately and finally cajoled Jon into chaperoning me to the track so I could run (I try to be careful with loose dogs and BEARS). Anyway, always good to have a big man around to take care of business should business present itself. Jon says that he is more worried about the mountainmen than anything else!

Anyway so I was so pumped and started jogging the track and Jon took his seat on the bleachers to read while I ran. He has terrible allergies so couldn't run outside (I have allergies too but I am the stubborn/slightly stupid one who does it anyway). Anyway, as I am making my first round and passing Jon on my right, he stands up fast and holds up a self-made sign that reads: GO LAUREN inside of a huge heart!

hahaha...That made my year!
:-) I will always remember that image today of my wonderful husband cheering me on all by himself :)

God's Mercy

First wave Feminism...
New immigrants coming to America
Big Catholic families
The poorer, the more children..

Problem of Poverty
Problem of Education
Problem of Eugenics (?) No

Catholics open free schools
Feminists open free abortion clinics



***Added 9/14: I am reserving the right to call birth control or "Sanger fertility education centers" (my euphemism and quotes) abortion clinics since they were in fact so, even though abortion per se was not legal until some years later. The mentality certainly breeded the reality. And Margaret Sanger, among many other Feminists, was a progressive Eugenicist. This mentality is still active today with the selective homicide of unborn handicapped children, children conceived by rape (and strangely) women who simply find motherhood "unpleasant." Ah yes we see the breakdown here.
---Definition of Eugenics: The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. It is interesting that 'the ones with the guns', or those with power, choose who is desirable or not.
Nough' said.

Toothbrush Conversations

7:00 am.

Jon: Why can't I be the 'poster boy' for "poster kids"

Lauren: Brushing...

99 Red Balloons

Initially, I thought I would use this blog as a temporary outlet while taking my Feminist class at Duquesne. I was ready to dig my heels in and really ruffle their feathers. I have something different in mind now. I admit, I was a little fury cloud when it all started, huffing and puffing, ready to blow the Feminist house down. I don't know how to express exactly how I feel without being cynical, abstruse, or just well, misinterpreted. But I am going to try anyway.

It just doesn't matter. Feminism isn't going to stick. Any attention given it is like trying to tie stones to a balloon to keep it from flying up up and away. It's got to come down sometime. And its sad little rubber pieces are going to fall on someone's head or in a backyard or some shrub somewhere, some time from now, and the person (if anyone in fact stumbles upon it) is going to pick it up and say: What is this garbage? Can you believe anyone used it? Who is the owner anyway?

Yes- those are the questions that will be asked as soon as Feminism comes down from its nowhere cloud into some anonymous forgotten scrap pile. It just won't matter. It is almost out of our schools, people are getting tired of it, it's no longer "edgy" like it used to be, it's washed up and meanwhile we are all in our Feminist class, the discerning ones scratching their heads and wondering how there is even enough helium left to keep this one class up.

And, alas, we already know the true Feminist genius of our time has spoken, and definitively, THANK YOU JOHN PAUL THE GREAT, A TRUE FEMINIST!

JPII, pray for us.

hmmm...I am, however, contemplating a book burning after the semester is through. As Language Log writers would say, the pages are only worthy to be nailed up as rescue paper in the pool house.

One of Our Car Conversations

Jon: So, you know how the father of the bride is supposed to pay for the wedding?

Lauren: Yeah

Jon: And how we want a big family?

Lauren: Yep

Jon (closing eyes and repetively praying): 8 boys....8 boys....8 boys....8 boys...

hahaha

A little note on marriage by Gregory Popcak

Turn your everyday married life into a prayer, because whether you realize it or not, everything you do in the context of your sacramental marriage -- from your work and other roles, to the little pecks on the cheek you give each other to your getting off the couch when you're tired in order to play with or serve your family, to the arguments you have, to your lovemaking-- is prayer. Marriage is perhaps the most beautiful prayer in the world. It is a prayer that was written by God at the beginning of time...It is the pearl of great price buried in your own backyard.