As I considered with far greater empathy how women who face the crisis of an unplanned pregnancy alone must feel when they believe that they have no other “choice” than abortion, I could more fully understand that it is truly not enough to say that we are “for life” unless we are prepared to help provide the practical means to support life.
DING DING DING!
Finally, a pro-lifer who actually wants to do something to decrease abortions
Dear
BlackFlag
And this network has been around since 1985. Even relocating women
ACROSS THE COUNTRY if necessary to preserve their careers and confidentiality
where they were under social and financial pressure, from school or work to abort against their wishes.
All this time (over 30 years???) Prolife lobbies keep protesting and advertising for PP.
And nobody has heard of the Nurturing Network or taking it seriously.
I even bought an AD promoting the Nurturing Network in a program
raising money for Choices for Life
www.choices4life.org
And I'm PROCHOICE. I believe in helping women whatever their choice is.
My friend Juda who started Choices for Life to help rape victims
has so much trouble raising funds, because nobody wants to hear about
women keeping their babies after rape, much less raising them as loved children.
I thought of campaigning together to raise money for solutions
instead of wasting resources fighting politically, when none of
that money is going to help women where they really need it!
Ridiculous. Been trying to bring people together since the 1990's
but people would rather fight politically than fund real solutions!
Wouldn't it more sense to demand that equal funds be directed
toward the Nurturing Network www.nurturingnetwork.org
to give taxpayers equal choice instead of ONLY funding PP?
I guess it's just part of the human political learning curve, to go through
these battles, before realizing money is better spent solving the problems.
From what you’ve said, I’d be fine with taxpayer funding for them. I haven’t looked into it though.
If you are telling the truth and their only interest is in providing viable alternatives to abortion, you will find more help in the pro-choice crowd than the pro-life one. In the realm of pro-life evangelicals, there is only black and white.
Dear
BlackFlag
The founder is prolife Catholic.
The problem is BOTH SIDES are too busy pushing their political narrative,
so neither the prochoice work to promote NN because it isn't promoting their cause
or political fundraising drives like PP does, energizing their base to "go out and vote."
And the Prolife are too busy rattling cages and getting votes and donations
by attacking what PP does. (More Prolifers rally around that than want to give to help
Juda's nonprofit that supports women who didn't abort their babies after rape.
In fact, she's been attacked by both right and left who feel threatened somehow.)
It's really sad.
Ironically, NOW I've run into this same phenomena
with trying to promote Cooperative Health Care.
You'd THINK the liberals for universal care would be ALL OVER this solution!
But Conservatives tend to get it, and the liberals still want to lobby through govt!
At this point
BlackFlag my friend Juda who gets both,
maybe she and I should just campaign to promote NN
in Houston and get the Cooperative Model built in every
district around both approaches (PPC and NN together)
www.patientphysiciancooperatives.com
www.nurturingnetwork.org
The last time someone with the media tried to cover a story
on me and Juda working together, they couldn't even write it up.
It made NO SENSE to them how could a prochoice advocate like
me ally with a prolife advocate like Juda who doesn't even believe
abortion is a choice in cases of rape or incest because she knows
people who were either born of that or were the mothers, and they
believe they wouldn't be born unless it was part of God's plan (even
though the rape is still illegal and wrong, the baby isn't a mistake).
BlackFlag I guess it's because Juda, me and NN work on an
individual level, that the media can't present that as a collective
type institution. It requires knowing and describing people
personally beyond the left/right prochoice/prolife labels.
So maybe that's why this doesn't get publicity or support.
People go with what's easy, so if you can label it, then you can market it.
Juda and I defy the usual labels and just want to help people, as
unique individuals. The labels people attack her with are nothing
about her, and all about the POLITICS. So it's the POLITICS
I blame most for CENSORING these solutions because fighting
and attacking in the media makes more money for parties to
exploit the conflicts for fear, votes, donations and hype. Sad!
