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  • About
  • My Novel: Aliisa’s letter
  • Remembering Steven
  • Healthy Birth Practices
    • Preparing for Birth
    • Waiting for Labor to Start
    • Pelvic Measurement: Will the Baby Fit?
    • Emotional Support and Guidance During Labor
    • Is the Intervention Necessary?
    • Pushing Positions
    • Mom & Baby: Skin to Skin
    • A New Perspective: Home Birth
  • Family Health
    • Essential Oils
    • Colds Flu and Garlic
    • Calendula for a Healing Salve
    • Measles and the MMR
    • What about Vaccines?
    • Easing Painful Periods
  • Affiliate Links
  • Privacy Policy
  • New Life
    Abortion - Childbirth - Family - Women

    Why is the Roe v. Wade Decision Still Raising Questions?

    October 16, 2020 - By Carol

    Roe v. Wade is once again being discussed. During the Senate confirmation hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, Judge Barrett was asked many questions about the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide 47 years ago. Senator Klobuchar asked if the decision was a super precedent—a decision that should never be…

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  • Abortion - Vaccines

    Is a Clinical Trial of 42 Days Enough to Establish Vaccine Safety?

    July 2, 2019 - By Carol

    In the 1960s and early 1970s many babies were sacrificed to produce the rubella vaccine. Hysterotomy was performed on women who chose to have an elective abortion in order to provide fetal tissue. The research took place over a period of years. This rubella vaccine (included in the MMR) was…

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  • Bleeding hearts
    Abortion - Health - Women

    Reproductive Health Act: A Life and Death Law in Illinois

    June 3, 2019 - By Carol

    When the Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, no one could imagine that 45 years later the number of lives terminated in the United States would be 61 million. Some believed that marriages would be better, women would be happier. Has that happened? Last Friday the…

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  • Bleeding hearts
    Abortion - Faith - Women

    Unplanned and Post Abortion Help

    April 5, 2019 - By Carol

    Abortion has left a deep wound in our nation, but there are organizations that offer help and healing.

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  • Abortion - Health

    When Health Care Becomes Perplexing

    February 21, 2019 - By Carol

    Health care was one of the top issues in the midterm elections. According to a letter that I received yesterday from the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan (my alma mater) : We grapple with the knowledge that the United States is the top spending country in health…

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  • Abortion

    Save the Turtles but Not the Babies

    October 19, 2018 - By Carol

    If you go to see the movie, Gosnell: the Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer, you will understand the title of this post. My husband and I saw this movie today. The movie is based on the actual court documents from the trial. It was riveting and held the attention…

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  • Abortion - Childbirth - Health

    Women’s Rights & Midwifery

    April 10, 2017 - By Carol

    Women today have more rights than our ancestors. As we have made progress it is odd that the loudest voice in the current women’s movement is for abortion. I would rather support the right of women to give birth in the setting that they choose. Across the world there is…

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  • All Life is Precious
    Abortion - Faith

    Five Ways to Support the Choice for Life

    January 26, 2017 - By Carol

    On Friday (1/27) the March for Life will take place in Washington D.C.  Every year, after the ruling on Roe v. Wade was handed down, people have marched to the Supreme Court in protest. God is the giver of life. We should support all life. Events recorded in the Bible…

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  • Life is a Gift
    Abortion - Faith - Women

    Celebrating Life on Planned Parenthood’s Anniversary

    October 16, 2016 - By Carol

    As Planned Parenthood celebrates their 100 year anniversary, I choose to mourn the lives lost and the wounds that many women carry. Although Planned Parenthood portrays itself as woman’s health care,  its most      lucrative business is abortion. It masquerades as compassionate care. I give thanks for the growing…

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  • Abortion - Faith - Marriage

    The Lack of Respect for Women

    October 12, 2016 - By Carol

    Words. Ugly references to women. It is hard to listen to the political mud slinging. Trump’s words revealed on a recording were vulgar and cannot be condoned. These words have opened wounds that many women carry. Our culture is saturated in sex. I wonder if we are ready to assess…

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As I write, I give thanks for God’s design of the family and the gift of His word, the Bible.

It gives me joy to be a woman, a wife, a mother and grandmother. For many years I was a childbirth nurse, assisting mothers and their babies.

 

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