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Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded inProlife Fen's LiveJournal:
| Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | |
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| _8:03 pm_[alphabet26] |
 right_over_easy book club! Wow, so, it's been awhile. I recently read the book Unwind by Neal Shusterman. It's a YA sci-fi novel, set sometime in America's future (iPods are sold in antique stores) where "unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts." The first page describes the Bill of Life._The Second Civil War, also knows as "The Heartland War," was a long and bloody conflict fought over a single issue.To end the war, a set of constitutional amendments known as "The Bill of Life" was passed.It satisfied both the Pro-life and the Pro-choice armies.The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen.However, between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, a parent may choose to retroactively "abort" a child......on condition that the child's life doesn't "technically" end.The process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive is called "unwinding."Unwinding is now a common, and accepted practice in society._They "unwind" teenagers by transplanting every part of the teens' bodies (from teeth to hair to lungs and everything in between), and since every bit of their bodies is technically still "alive," they haven't really been killed, right?I adored this book, but it was a really hard read for me. It's so disturbing. I have so many thoughts on it, but I'm not really sure how to articulate them all. But I'd love to talk it over with someone else. So...anyone want to do a book club sort of thing?Also, if no one answers now, but you're reading this post and it's a year from now? Please comment anyway! I have comment notification and I've been thinking about this book for two or three months now and it hasn't left me yet. ;)ETA: Spoilers and discussion in the comments! Current Mood:  hopeful (13 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 | |
| _2:54 am_[hymnia] |
Bella Has anyone heard about this? I'd like to know more about it.New Movie "Bella" Excites Pro-Life CommunityJoie (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Monday, November 27th, 2006 | |
| _5:34 pm_[marauderthesn] |
Abortion in Gone With the Wind Even if you're not a Gone With the Wind fan, most people are familiar with the basic story line. After seeing the film several times, I recently read the book and, much to my surprise, learned that Scarlett nearly aborted Bonnie. I thought the passage might be of interest. (Note to anyone who saw the film but didn't read the book: In the book, Scarlett already has two children, one from each husband, when she marries Rhett.)( Pretty long, with spoilersCollapse ) (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 | |
| _6:35 pm_[hymnia] |
Article on Nip/Tuck I thought this article about a recent episode of Nip/Tuck was interesting, even though I don't watch the show myself:Pro-Life Arguments Get New Forum in Risque TV Show "Nip/Tuck"Joie Current Mood:  thoughtful (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Saturday, February 25th, 2006 | |
| _1:10 pm_[alphabet26] |
Icons  kc_anathema made some Pro-Life Icons here. However, also included in the batch are pro-America, pro-GOP, anti-liberal, and some icons of the Danish cartoons.ETA: Actually, you can skip the post if you like, and go straight to her Pro-Life Gallery. (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 | |
| _5:39 pm_[natewillsheets] |
Where Were You? Janet Folger recently came to Portland State University to speak. (I'll write more about that later.) There was something that really got me thinking about abortion in a different way.When and if abortion is made illegal, I think that history will look upon it as something that was evil and people will say "How could people have been so ignorant?" Really, it is worse than the Holocaust, speaking in numbers. We, of course, cannot see it. We are living in the here-and-now. Abortion doesn't seem like that big of a deal.We are the people in Germany who just continued living their lives as the Jews and many others were being slaughtered. They also thought "They aren't people" or "Well, it's bad but there's nothing I can do" or, sadly, "There are worse things going on in the world." You may think it's stupid to compare ourselves to those people--but that's exactly who we are. Living our lives comfortably while thousands of babies are slaughtered every day.And it was those people whose children, when it was all over, had a disgust--a disdain--with their parents, which still carries on today two generations later. "Where were you," they asked, "when the Jews were being killed? How could you have said there were other, more important things that needed to be dealt with? How could you have let this happen?"40,000,000 dead since 1973, legally. History will look at legalized abortion through a very different light than we. When our children and grandchildren ask "Where were you when the babies were being killed? What did you do to stop it?", what will our answer be? I don't want my children to think little of my actions to help those who do not have a voice and who are legally killed. Do you? (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 | |
| _4:44 pm_[marauderthesn] |
Oy! This community is very quiet, and I think it has so much potential. Does anyone know of places we could advertise, other than the places where this community has been advertised already? I'd really like to see this place being more active and more inclined to discussion. (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, June 30th, 2005 | |
| _5:01 pm_[marauderthesn] |
Witch Baby Is anyone else here a Francesca Lia Block fan? I am, and I'm looking forward to the first Weetzie Bat book in ten years being released on August 2, but there's one part of the series that's always bothered me.( Spoilers for Weetzie BatCollapse ) Current Mood:  numb (Comment on this) |
| Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 | |
| _1:25 pm_[kali_kali] |
The community quote... Just wanted to mention to everyone, if you haven't seen it already, the trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has been released.Reason I figured it merited mention here, is because the last line of the trailer is "Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy".... the quote this community's name was based from.Enjoy! Current Mood:  blank (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 | |
| _7:45 pm_[marauderthesn] |
First post Hello, it's my first post here.This is a rather odd rant about people's reactions to a bad Harry Potter fic that involved Hermione being pregnant with Sirius's child...you have been warned... ( Hermione's intelligent, of course she would have an abortion!Collapse ) (2 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, January 27th, 2005 | |
| _3:02 am_[alphabet26] |
National Review essay Doug Bandow wrote an interesting opt-ed piece: Turn the Beat Around: Can Democrats be pro-life?I think he makes a valid point in that--however it happened (one theory is that it's the Republicans' fault, they "succeeded in defining Democrats 'as the abortion any time, anywhere party.'"), the Left is "unable to even contemplate a legitimate argument against legal abortion. There long has been no quicker or surer way to be considered a Neanderthal than to suggest that the unborn might warrant legal protection."Thoughts? I'm registered Republican, and one of the reasons is because abortion is so accepted, even celebrated, in the Democratic party. Abortion is one of my sticking points--I can't see myself ever registering as a Democrat--I don't blindly vote Republican, though--as long as this attitude (I am not saying individual Democrats think this way, of course) toward the unborn is so prominent in that party. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this) |
| Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 | |
| _9:35 pm_[hymnia] |
The Screwtape Emails I came across this little parody of The Screwtape Letters, which addresses the issue of unplanned pregnancy. It's pretty interesting, though not quite a match for Lewis's wit. Joie Current Mood: contemplative (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 | |
| _10:04 am_[liwy] |
The Hopeful One I could fill this book with examples of the universal, unconscious assumption that life and sex must live by the laws of “business” or industrialism, and not vice versa; examples from all the magazines, novels, and newspapers. In order to make it brief and typical, I take one case of a more or less Eugenic sort from a paper that lies open in front of me-a paper that still bears on its forehead the boast of being peculiarly an organ of democracy in revolt. To this a man writes to say that the spread of destitution will never be stopped until we have educated the lower classes in the methods by which the upper classes prevent procreation. The man had the horrible playfulness to sign his letter “Hopeful.” ... The curious point is that the hopeful one concludes by saying, “When people have large families and small wages, not only is there a high infantile death-rate, but often those who do live to grow up are stunted and weakened by having to share the family income with those who died early. There would be less unhappiness if there were no unwanted children.” You will observe that he tacitly takes it for granted that the small wages and the income, desperately shared, are the fixed pints, like day and night, the conditions of human life. Compare with them marriage and maternity are luxuries, things to be modified to suit the wage-market. There are unwanted children; but unwanted by whom? This man does not really mean that the parents do not want to have them. He means that the employers do not want to pay them properly. Doubtless, if you say to him directly, “Are you in favour of low wages?” he would say, “No.” But I am not, in this chapter, talking about the effect of on such modern minds of a cross-examination to which they do not subject themselves. I am talking about the way their minds work, the instinctive trick and turn of their thoughts, the things they assume before argument, and the way they faintly feel the world is going. And, frankly, the turn of their mind is to tell the child he is not wanted, as the turn of my mind is to tell the profiteer he is not wanted. Motherhood, they feel, and a full childhood, and the beauty of brothers and sisters, are good things in their way, but not so good as a bad wage. About the mutilation of womanhood and the massacre of the unborn, he signs himself “Hopeful.” He is hopeful of female indignity, hopeful of human annihilation. But about improving the small bad wage he signs himself “Hopeless.”-G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other EvilsCurrent Mood: busy (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Friday, January 7th, 2005 | |
| _10:24 pm_[hymnia] |
Abortion conspicuously absent in daytime dramas Here's an interesting article about how daytime soaps have steered clear of including the abortion issue in their storylines: http://soapoperadigest.com/features/special/lasttaboo/In general, I would say that the entertainment media shy away from the topic of abortion. I can think of a few exceptions, but not many. It seems to me that it used to be that way with the topic of AIDS, but then a few shows and movies (including an old favorite of mine, Life Goes On) started "speaking up" about that delicate issue, and now it's a much more approachable topic. But abortion? Still strong taboos there, I think.Joie Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 | |
| _11:36 am_[alphabet26] |
Hi, guys,Anyone else hear about the Netherlands euthanizing babies? And apparently has been since 2000?I...don't even have words. Why is human life so cheap now?Apologies if this was off-topic. I got the link from IMAO, and the way it was phrased there made me think of this group. Current Mood:  pissed off (4 Comments |Comment on this) |
| Thursday, September 30th, 2004 | |
| _4:40 pm_[buongiornodaisy] |
For Catholics... Pro-life meditations on the Mysteries of the Rosary from Priests for Life.God Bless and Peace be With You,Midge Current Mood: informative (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, September 1st, 2004 | |
| _10:00 pm_[hymnia] |
Just a quick, quick post to say... ...welcome to all who have joined so far! I'm so glad to see this comm has generated some interest. I have been extremely busy this week, and so have not been able to start posting some of the things I've had stored up in my mind before starting this community, to generate discussion. But I should be able to post something more substantial this weekend, and in the meantime, other members are, of course, welcome to make introductory posts or bring up relevant topics. Here is one question for my fellow HP fen to chew on. In trying to decide who to vote for in the Republican primary election for one of Florida's US Senate seats (held yesterday), I was pondering how much the issue of embryonic stem cell research should weigh in to my vote. I consider the issue to be closely related to abortion, but the ethical questions are not quite as clear cut to me. Anyway, a certain quote from one of the HP books popped into my mind, that would make a good parallel to ESC research from a pro-life (opposed to ESC research) perspective. Can anyone guess what quote I'm thinking of? 10 points to the House of the person who can. ;) If no one gets it, I'll reveal the answer this weekend. Joie Current Mood: indescribable (Comment on this) |
| _1:19 pm_[alphabet26] |
Introducing myself Hello, I'm Ree, and a friend of hymnia. I'm politically a conservative, and a registered Republican because I think the Republican party best aligns with my conservative views.I'm very much pro-life, and always have been. As Ed the Sock once put it: I've never bought the argument that a fetus is just tissue. A woman's womb isn't a Cracker Jack box - it only produces one thing, babies - so that's what's growing in there.(Just so I'm not misrepresenting him, he then goes on to say that ultimately he thinks abortion should be legal, because children born into horrific circumstances is worse for them.)So, hello. Looking forward to lots of (friends locked ;P) discussion. Current Mood: hungry (1 Comment |Comment on this) |
| Monday, August 30th, 2004 | |
| _5:50 pm_[buongiornodaisy] |
Hello! Well, might as well start posting. I'm Midge, a friend of hymnia, neither conservative nor liberal (plus I run willnotsettle, which is a political community for independents). I used to be pro-choice but religion converted me. ;) I'm a big fan of Harry Potter (though I wonder why I haven't left the fandom for "24" already). Nice to meet you all!God Bless and Peace Be With You,Midge Current Mood: okay (Comment on this) |
| Sunday, August 29th, 2004 | |
| _3:42 pm_[hymnia] |
Welcome Welcome to the community for pro-life fans of Harry Potter, and pro-life participants in other online fandoms. If you would like to join, and I don't already know you, please comment here and let me know who you are and why you think you should qualify for membership. Also, please read the community rules in the userinfo. Thanks for your interest!Joie (16 Comments |Comment on this) |