It’s 2:30 A.M. and sleep isn’t coming anytime soon. It’s usually God’s way of saying that He’d like to have a chat. I’ve grown to crave solitude, to sit in silent stillness and wait on the Lord, to be still and know that He is God.
It’s been a rough week with the NY City Council. Developments don’t look good regarding passage of the bill that will restrict CPC’s, and unlike any time before, I’m feeling the weight of the implications.
EMC has saved some 3,000 babies this year. If this bill passes and becomes law, will there be far fewer at this time next year? Have we missed doing something? Have we missed some strategic move that escapes our notice? What haven’t I read, or written? The questions tumble over one another in a ceaseless onslaught.
It’s tough to see the weight on Chris Slattery, to hear it from other CPC directors. It’s the simple, brutal calculus of war. Victory for the other side means more casualties on ours, yet my study of the history of war reveals that the worst happens right before the end. That’s when the carnage tends to be greatest.
Paradoxically, we are winning this war. 60% of Millenials and Gen Xers in a January Marist poll this year identify as pro-life. Hence, the increased efforts to shut down CPC’s, the increased bloodshed. The greatest weapon is the 4D sonogram and embryoscopy. The images scream the truth. This one 3 minute video says more than all the velvet-tongued professors of science combined:
http://truthbooth.org/viewvideo.asp
With all of that said, it’s just time for peacefulness, for waiting on the Lord, for praying for those who oppose us-who are in the grip of evil, for asking forgiveness for sometimes despising them when I should be praying for their deliverance. It’s a time to just give it all to the Father…
and wait…
Coming Home 
great post Gerard….if He allows it, even this we must thank God for..He has a plan…
BUT…we will not go down without a fight! lol
How about this — the CPCs agree to let PP write their disclosure statements, and vice versa.
PP’s would say something like, “CPCs do not provide abortion or contraceptive services.”
CPS’s would say something like, “PP does not provide prenatal services. It does not provide direct services beyond contraception and abortion.”
I understand the temptation of fighting this war with violence. I would use force to stop someone from shooting a two-year old right in front of me, but I also realize that this war can’t be fought that way without making it worse. We are winning and we are praying. Our children will continue whatever we start too. They know the value of a family.
God Bless You Dr. Nadal
L, why even bother then? What would be the point?
The fact is that most women who go to PP probably know they are going to be offerred abortion.
In the phone book, I would think CPC’s are listed under Abortion Alternatives. Unless a woman is a complete idiot and doesn’t understand the word “alternative” she likely knows it means something other than abortion.
Those who support abortion rights always play a dirty game.
I agree Theresa that God allows many things we wish he would not and that we do not understand. To bring about a greater good from our foolish choice of abortion is certainly a hard thing to fathom.
Thanks all.
Stacy, violence is never the approach for the pro-life movement. Those who resort to it only set us back. George Tiller was contemplating packing it in when he was murdered. Now instead of a victory, we have a martyr. We have God, truth, science, technology, and a whole bunch of great people. We’re winning, though the battles still rage.
I agree. In fact I believe God wants us to walk the straight and narrow path.
We must act justly and out of charity or our efforts are for nothing.
The main thing is that those who have children must raise them up to value life. They in turn will raise the next generation to do so.
I ceased to be welcome here many months ago, and I won’t try to dredge up the premises on which we cannot agree, even as a basis for discussion. On this matter, I believe the proposed ordinance targeting CPC’s is ill-conceived and probably unconstitutional.
Mary Catherine is undoubtedly correct that women who go either to a CPC or a PP generally know exactly what they are seeking, and why they are going where they are going. The notion that women determined to seek an abortion are being “lured” by “deceptive advertising” into a center where they will be brainwashed is ludicrous.
Unless the ordinance is viewpoint-neutral, establishing a generally applicable regulation, it is vulnerable to be overturned in the courts as imposing an undue burden on the First Amendment rights of people who have freely and voluntarily associated for a lawful purpose. The ordinance discriminates against CPC’s, not for medical reasons, but out of distaste for their expressive message.
Obviously, I don’t share the sense of warfare, albeit nonviolent, that motivates most of the comments here. I can join in criticism of this type of move by people who are in fact pro-abortion, not pro-choice, because I see no war at all. I am perfectly comfortable with a woman making her own choice, without interference by The State. I am perfectly comfortable with pro-life individuals and associations of individuals seeking to persuade women not to abort.
If the day comes, as Gerard once posed, when “they built an abortion clinic, and nobody came,” that would not in any way infringe a woman’s “right to choose.” It might infringe the revenues of one-time “non-profits” now running on a “business model,” but revenues are not entitled to constitutional or legal protection.